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October 2009

Oct 17,19, Beer-Sheva
AHARON HARLAP: Out of the Depths Have I Cried Unto Thee, O Lord for S & ChO (2008; IMI 7903; WP)

Sharon Rostdorf-Zamir - Soprano
Israel Sinfonietta Beer-Sheva
Doron Salomon – cond

Oct 16,17,Bard College, USA
SHULAMIT RAN: The Show Goes On for cl & ChO (2008; IMI 7841; US premiere)

Laura Flax - cl
American Symphony Orchestra
Leon Botstein - cond

February 2009







Feb 17, Nunich, Germany
Mar 1, Bayreuth, Germany
PAUL BEN-HAIM: Lift up your head for S & ChE (1961; IMI 7326)
PAUL BEN-HAIM: Friday Evening Service for S, cantor, mixed choir, children's choir & ChE (1966; IMI 7315)

Valerie Condoluci - S; Christian Miel - Bar
Orchester Jakobsplatz München
Daniel Grossmann - cond

January 2009









December 2008

Dec 28, Tel Aviv
Dec 29, Jerusalem
SHULAMIT RAN: The Show Goes On for cl & ChO (2008; IMI 7841; WP)

Udi Nave - cl
Buchmann-Mehta School of Music Symphony Orchestra
Ze'ev Dorman - cond

July 2008

Jul 12, Haifa....
MARC LAVRY: Dan the Guard, opera

Soloists and choir t.b.a.
Haifa Symphony Orchestra
Noam Sheriff - cond....

Jul 10, Jerusalem....
ALEXANDER URIYAH BOSKOVICH: Song of Ascent for SO (1960; IMI 6076)
OEDOEN PARTOS: Concertino for StrO. Ver of String Quartet No. 1 (1932/1953; IMI 6106A)
JOSEF TAL: Symphony No. 2 for SO (1960; IMI 6614)
ABEL EHRLICH: Music for Orchestra (1990; IMI 6864)

Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, IBA
Ilan Volkov – cond....

June 30, Ashkelon
Jul 1, 2, 3, Tel Aviv....
MENACHEM AVIDOM: The Cave of Jotapata for S & ChO (1977; IMI 6058)

ARNOLD SCHOENBERG, orch. GIL SHOHAT: Four Songs Op. 2, arr for S & ChO (WP for Shohat's orchestration)

Reut Ben Zeev – S
Israel ChO
Gil Shohat – cond....

June 2008

Jun 21,22,23,25, Haifa....
PAUL BEN-HAIM: Concerto for vln & ChO (1960; IMI 7306)

Sivann Zelikoff - vln
Haifa Symphony Orchestra
Noam Sheriff - cond....

Jun 10, Tel Aviv....
MARK KOPYTMAN: Cantus II for vln, vla & vcl (1980 IMI 7376)

Members of the Jerusalem Quartet (Alexander Pavlovsky – vln, Amihai Grosz – vla, Kyril Zlotnikov – vcl)....

Jun 25,26, Jerusalem....
RON WEIDBERG: Variations on a Theme by Mozart, ver for orch

Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, IBA
Uri Segal – cond....

Jun 4, Felicja Blumental Music Centre
Jun 10, Jerusalem Music Centre....
LIOR NAVOK: Sonata for vln & pno
Guy Figer – vln, Anna Khanina – pno....

Jun 17, Ein HaShofet
Jun 18, Tel Aviv
Jun 19, Beit She'an
Jun 21, Givat Brener
Jun 22, Ashkelon
Jun 24, Ein HaHoresh
Jun 28, Naharia....
DOV CARMEL: Songs of Jerusalem
MICHAEL WOLPE: Festive Overture
NISSIM NISSIMOV: Song of Songs (exceprts)
YEHEZKEL BRAUN: He Will Proclaim Freedom for mixed choir a cappella (1978; IMI 6318)

Yaala Avital – S, Bavat Marom – A, David Nortman – T, Yoni Haimovich – Bar
Kibbutz Arzi Choir (dir. Yuval Ben-Ozer), Israel Kibbutz Choir (dir. Ronen Borshevsky)
Israel Kibbutz Orchestra
Yaron Gottfried – cond....

Jun 21, Tel Aviv
Jun 22, Jerusalem Music Centre....
DAN YUHAS: Coloured Lines for ChE (2003)
Israel Contemporary Players, Ed Spaniard – cond....

5, 7, 9 Jun, Rishon LeZion
10 Jun, Tel Aviv....
MICHAEL WOLPE: Fanfares and Lamentations, third Poem For Orchestra (2008; WP)
Israel SO, Rishon LeZion
Neil Thomson – cond....

Jun 5, Felicja Blumental Music Centre, Tel Aviv....
JOACHIM STUTSCHEWSKY: Three for Three for 3 vcls (1967; IMI 129)
MOSHE RASIUK: Three Days for S & pno (1980; IMI 6367). Text: Leah Goldberg
JOSEPH PELES: Three Hebrew Folk Songs for V & pno (1986; IMI 7005). Texts: Yehuda Halevi, Shlomo Ha’adni, folk
ELLA MILCH-SHERIFF: Little Woman for S, vcl & pno (2005; IMIC 03). Text: Dahlia Ravikovitch
DROR ELIMELECH: Meditation for S & pno trio (2008; WP)
URI ADELMAN: Study No. 4 for vcl (2004)
EYAL BAHT: Three Poems by Elsa Lasker-Schüler

Rona Israel-Kolat – S, Alon Reuven – hn
Oded Hadar, Yael Shapira, & Juan Igancio Emme – vcls (Stutschewsky)
Chamber Society for Israeli Music (Nitai Zori – vln, Hillel Zori – vcl, Michal Tal – pno)....

Jun 15, Tel Aviv – Jaffa
Jun 17, Jerusalem Music Centre....
ORI BEN YOSEF TALMON: The Whistle of David for ChE (2007; WP; IMI 7824)
AMI MAAYANI: Sonata for vln (1978)
HANA AJIASHVILI: Points and Lines in Space for ChE (2008; WP; IMI 7831)
AYAL ADLER: Misterioso for pno (1997)
MENACHEM ZUR: Piano Trio (1987)

Ensemble Meitar (Jonathan Hadas – cl, Moshe Aharonov – vln, Anat Engelmeyer – vcl, Nadav Cohen – bn, Amit Dolberg – pno), Avichai Or-Noy – fl....

Jun 16, Jerusalem (Voice of Music ‘Etnachta’ Concert Series)....
PAUL BEN-HAIM: Three Songs Without Words for vcl & pno (1952; IMI 7364)
Emanuel Gruber – vcl, Arnon Erez – pno....

May 2008

May 4, Haifa....
YONI RECHTER: Santur Concerto
EITAN STEINBERG: "The Bride Unbraids her Hair and the Groom Faints" – Ladino love songs for V & ChO (2004)

Michal Sasson – santur, Etti Ben-Zaken – narrator & singer
Haifa Symphony Orchestra, Omer Welber – cond....

May 11, 12, Lübeck, Germany....
PAUL BEN-HAIM: Fanfare to Israel for SO (1950; IMI 7314)

Lübecker Philharmoniker
Yeruham Scharovsky – cond....

May 8, Berlin
May 9, Frankfurt am Oder....
JOSEF TAL: Festive Vision for SO (1959; IMI 6624)

Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt
Howard Griffiths – cond....

May 8, Bremen....
PAUL BEN-HAIM: Three Songs Without Words for S & ChO (1953; IMI 7367)

Manja Stephan – S
Althastedter Kammerorchester, Bremen
Grigoij Pantijelew – cond....

May 5, Rovaniemi, Finland....
YINAM LEEF: Octet – Eight miniatures for 8 instruments after Kandinsky (1984; Finnish premiere; IMI 7060)

Members of the Lapland ChO
John Storgårds – cond....

May 12, Ljubljana, Slovenia....
RUBEN SEROUSSI: Diferencias II for gui & ChE (1990; IMI 6985)
Tomaz Rajteric – gui
Society of Slovene Composers Chamber Orchestra
Marcel Wengler – cond....

May 14, Frankfurt-am-Main....
OEDOEN PARTOS: Concertino for StrO – Ver of String Quartet No. 1 (1932/1953; IMI 6106A)
Mendelssohn Players, Lior Shambadal – cond....

May 3, Tel Aviv....
WORKS FOR CHOIR A CAPPELLA:
GILAD HOCHMAN: On the Brink (2008; WP)
TSIPPI FLEISCHER: 'A Girl Dreamed' from Girl-Butterfly-Girl – ver for mixed choir a cappella (1977/1984; IMI 6228MAr)
ELLA MILCH-SHERIFF: Miserere Mei, Deus (2005)
YEHEZKEL RAZ: Psalm 51 (2004)

Naked Voices, Tamir Chasson – cond....

May 11, Felicja Blumental Music Centre, Tel Aviv....
JOSEF TAL: First movement from Sonata for vln & pno (1952; IMI 6620)
ARIE SHAPIRA: Off Piano for pno (1984)
TZVI AVNI: Cross-Examination from Controversies for vln & vcl (2002; IMI 7488)
MARC LAVRY: Hora from Three Jewish Dances for vln & pno (1945; IMI 6762)
PAUL BEN-HAIM: Berceuse Sfaradite for vln & pno (1945)
BEN-ZION ORGAD: Duo for vln & vcl (1960; IMI 241)
ANDRE HAJDU: Four preludes from Instants Suspendus for vcl (1987/1990)
YEHEZKEL BRAUN: Fantasia a Tre for pno trio (1997; IMI 7143)

David Strongin & Gili Radian-Sada – vlns, Shiri Tintpulver – vcl, David Basilanco – pno
Chamber Society for Israeli Music (Nitai Zori – vln, Hillel Zori – vcl, Michal Tal – pno....

May 13, Jerusalem Music Centre....
GILAD HOCHMAN: Rhapsody for vcl
Shira Mani – vcl....

May 24, Tel Aviv....
ELLA MILCH-SHERIFF: Ballade on the Three Prophets for youth choir (2008; IP). Text: Nava Semel
Moran Choir, Naomi Faran – cond....

May 25, Guangzhou, China
May 27, Fuzhou, China
Jun 1, Tokyo, Japan
Jun 15, Kobe, Japan....
MAX STERN: ‘Meditations’ from Songs of Ascent for vcl & bn (2007)
Rossini Duo (Rebecca Rust – vcl, Friedrich Edelmann – bn)....

May 28, Pittsburgh....
NOAM SHERIFF: Dibrot (“Commandments”)– Concerto No. 2 for vln & ChO (2000)
PAUL BEN-HAIM: Capriccio for pno & ChO (1960; IMI 7303)
MORDECHAI ZEIRA/ NOAM WIESENBERG: Two Israeli Folk Songs, arr for S & ChO
JULIUS CHAJES: Old Jerusalem (1974)
NAOMI SHEMER/ SAMUEL GAL ALTEROVICH: Jerusalem of Gold, arr for S, children’s choir & SO


Re’ut Ben-Ze’ev – S
Gila Goldstein – pno, Nurit Pacht – vln, Aron Zelkowicz – vcl
Children’s Festival Chorus of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh Jewish Music Festival Orchestra
Lucas Richman – cond....

May 2, Petach Tikva
May 3, Tel Aviv
May 10, Ein HaShofet....
ELLA MILCH-SHERIFF: Touches for vln & vla (2007; IP)
Hagit Halaf – vln, Christoph Langheim – vla....

May 7, Jerusalem....
ELLA MILCH-SHERIFF: Fanfare for SO (2008; WP)
Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, IBA
Leon Botstein – cond....

May 1, Tel Aviv....
ELLA MILCH-SHERIFF: And the Rat Laughed, chamber opera in 10 scenes (2005) Libretto: Nava Semel and Ella Milch-Sheriff
Soloists, Moran Choir (Naomi Faran – cond)
Israel Chamber Orchestra
Ori Leshman – cond....

May 8, Szczecin, Poland....
ELLA MILCH-SHERIFF: Ballade on the Three Prophets for youth choir (2008; WP). Text: Nava Semel
Moran Choir and other youth choirs from Poland, Germany and Canada
Naomi Faran – cond....

May 23, Berlin....
GABRIEL IRANYI: String Quartet (2008; WP)
ITURRIAGA QUARTETT (Aitzol Iturriagagoitia & Iokine Iturriagagoitia – vlns, Miguel Ángel Lucas – vla, Dorothea Vit – vcl)....

May 9, Bethesda, MD
May 18, Washington CD....
AVNER DORMAN: Sonata No. 2 for pno (2001)
Alon Goldstein – pno....

May 30, Jun 1, Taipei, Taiwan....
AVNER DORMAN: Udacrep Akubrad – ver for perc(2) (2001)
PercaDu (Tomer Yariv & Adi Morag) – perc....

April 2008

Apr 2,3, Jerusalem....
JOSEF TAL: Symphony No. 1 for SO (1953; IMI 6613)

Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, IBA
Leon Botstein - cond....

April 27, 28, Tel Aviv
April 29, Jerusalem....
YORAM MEYOUHAS: Concert for vla & ChO (2007; WP; IMI 7802)

Yoram Meyouhas – vla
Israel ChO
Roberto Paternostro – cond....

Apr 26, Sacramento, CA, USA....
MENACHEM WIESENBERG: Concertino for ud, pno & StrO (1994; USP; IMI 7010)

Taiseer Elias – oud, Sonia Rubinsky – pno
Sacramento PO, Nader Abbassi – cond....

Apr 17, Philadelphia....
PAUL BEN-HAIM: Fanfare to Israel for SO (1950; IMI 7314)
SHIMON COHEN: Jerusalem Sketches – Rhapsody for SO (1981; IMI 7431)
Philadelphia Orchestra, John Axelrod – cond....

Apr 21, Jerusalem (Voice of Music 'Etnachta' Concert Series)....
LEON SCHIDLOWSKY: Coming Back to Life – Tango for vln & pno (2003; IMI 7545)
Vera Vaidman – vln, Emanuel Krasovsky – pno....

Apr 6, Paris....
PAUL BEN-HAIM: Serenade for fl & str trio (1952; IMI 7344)
MARK KOPYTMAN: Cantus II for str trio (1980; IMI 7376)
YINAM LEEF: Triptych – Homage to O. Partos (1997; IMI 7120)
MENACHEM ZUR: Piano Trio (1987)
DAN YUHAS: Monologue for fl (2007)
DAN YUHAS: Quartet for cl, vln, vcl & pno (2007)

Ensemble Meitar (Moshe Aharonov – vln, Anat Engelmayer – vcl, Yonatan Hadas – cl, Roy Amots – fl, Amit Dolberg – pno)
Daniel Bard – vln, Katya Polin – vla....

Apr 6, Paris....
ARI BEN-SHABETAI: Aimez-vous Brahms? for pno trio (2007)
MENACHEM WIESENBERG: Like Clay in the Potter's Hand for vcl & pno (1994; IMI 6994)
AYAL ADLER: Shades… to Colours for pno & str qrt (2002; IMI 7510)
MARCEL GOLDMANN: Rondo Pyramide 2 for vln (2004)
HILAT BEN-KENNAZ: In Chromatic Mood for cl, bn, vln, vcl & pno (2007/8)
ANNA SHTYROV: Three Bagatelles for fl, cl, vln & vla (2008; WP)
BENJAMIN YUSUPOV: What I Wished For for str qrt, based on the song by Alexander Argov (1997; IMI 7150)

Ensemble Meitar (Moshe Aharonov – vln, Anat Engelmayer – vcl, Yonatan Hadas – cl, Nadav Cohen – bn, Amit Dolberg – pno)
Daniel Bard – vln, Katya Polin – vla, Pascal Gallois – bn....

Apr 9, Prague....
TZVI AVNI: Kaddish for vcl & StrO (1987/1991; IMI 6909)
Dominika Hoškovà – vcl
Quattro Chamber Orchestra, Marek Štilec – cond....

Apr 4, Jerusalem....
TSIPPI FLEISCHER: Scenes of Israel: Six Madrigals for mixed choir a cappella (1981-1983)
AVNER ITAI: The Maiden. Text: Nathan Alterman
MORDECHAI ZEIRA, arr. AVERN ITAI: Two Israeli Songs. Texts: Natan Alterman, Yaacov Orland
YEHEZKEL BRAUN, arr. AVNER ITAI: Sharkia

Collegium Tel Aviv, Avner Itai – cond....

Apr 4, Jerusalem....
AHARON HARLAP: 'Halleuja' (Psalm 113) from Psalms for S, cl & pno (2001; IMI 7423)
TZVI AVNI: Leda and the Swan for S & cl (1976; IMI 6149)
URI ROM: Three Goethe Songs for S & pno
SHMUEL MALKIN: Kinneret & Foxes' Song from Four Songs for V & pno

Shimrit Carmi – S, Desmond Beazley – cl, Monica Fallon – pno
....

Apr 12, Tel Aviv
Apr 14, Jerusalem (Voice of Music 'Etnachta' Concert Series)....
ISRAEL SHARON: Desert Music for vcl & pno (2008; WP)
Ira Givol – vcl, Einav Yarden – pno....

Apr 9, Haifa
Apr 10-12, Tel Aviv
Apr 13, Jerusalem
Apr 14, Kfar Shmaryahu....
MENACHEM WIESENBERG: Concertino for vcl & StrO (1998; IMI 7248)
Alexander Kotlyar – vcl
Israel Camerata Jerusalem, Daniel Klajner – cond....

Apr 12, Tel Aviv – Jaffa....
DAN YUHAS: Duo for vla & vcl
YUVAL GOTLIBOVICH: Back and Fort for vla & vcl
HILAT BEN-KENNAZ: Colours for vcl & pno
ATAR ARAD: 2 Caprices for vla; Rondo for vla & vcl

Yuval Gotlibovich – vla, Jonathan Gotlibovich – vcl, Shlomi Shem-Tov – pno....

Apr 16, Tel Aviv – Jaffa....
LEON SCHIDLOWSKY: 'Seis Miniaturas' for pno – Homage to Paul Klee (1952)
Michal Tal – pno....

Apr 30, Kibbutz Tel Yitzhak....
ELLA MILCH-SHERIFF: There in the Other World for children's choir & pno
Li-Ron Choir, Ronit Shapira – cond....

March 2008

Mar 22, 23, 24, Tel Aviv....
GIL SHOHAT: Stabat Mater for Mez & ChO (2007; WP)
Bernadette Weidman – Mez
Israel ChO
Gabor Hollerung – cond....

Mar, 12,13, Jerusalem....
GIL SHOHAT: Concerto for viola and orchestra

Amichai Gross - viola
Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, IBA
Eli Jaffe – cond....

Mar 15, Ein HaHoresh
Mar 17, Givaatayim
Mar 18, Dorot
Mar 20, Tel Aviv
Mar 22, Ein HaShofet
Mar 24, Nahariya
Mar 27, Givat Brenner....
YARON GOTTFRIED: "Swinging Mozart" for Jazz Trio and ChO (2005)

Yurai Oron – db
Eitan Itzkovich – perc
Israel Kibbutz Orchestra
Yaron Gottfried – pno & cond....

Mar 4,8, Tel Aviv
Mar 5, Jerusalem....
BENJAMIN YUSUPOV: Concerto for vcl & SO (2006; IP)

Mishca Maisky – vcl
The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra
Kazushi Ono – cond....

Mar 24, 29, Beer Sheva
Mar 26, Kfar Sava....
SERGEI PROKOFIEV/ RON WEIDBERG: Concerto for 2 pnos & StrO, based on sketches by Prokofiev (1952/2008; WP of Weidberg's completion)

Sivan Silver & Gil Garburg – pnos
Israel Sinfonietta Beer Sheva
Doron Salomon – cond....

Mar 13, Blacksburg, VA, USA
Mar 17, Radford, VA, USA....
ASHER BEN-YOHANAN: Prelude and Toccata for pno (1960; IMI 122)

Nitza Kats – pno....

Mar 26, Tel Aviv
Mar 27, 29, 30, Rishon LeZion....
TZVI AVNI: Programme Music for SO (1980; IMI 6242)

Israel SO Rishon LeZion
Mendi Rodan – cond....

Mar 1, Eilat....
PERCADU (TOMER YARIV & ADI MORAG): Variations for Percussion
ADI MORAG: Octabones for two marimbas (1988)
TOMER YARIV: Gyro for perc(2)

PercaDu (Tomer Yariv & Adi Morag) – perc....

Mar 10, The Institute Concert Series, Felicja Blumental Music Centre, Tel Aviv....
YOSSI PELES: Three Hebrew Folk Songs, arr for V & pno. Texts: Yehuda Halevi, Shlomo Ha'adani, folk (1986; IMI 7005)
AVRAHAM AMZALLAG: Desolation for fl (1973; IMI 309)
BETTY OLIVERO: Endings for pno (1991; IMI 6929)
LEIBO LEVINE: Four songs from '12 Yiddish Songs' for V & pno. Texts: H. Leyvik, A. Reyzen, Kh. Grade, H. N. Bialik (IMI 7093)
MENACHEM AVIDOM: Songs of End for V & pno. Texts: Jonathan Ratosh (1957; IMI 7231)
ERICH WALTER STERNBERG: Die ferne Floete (The Distant Flute) for A & fl. Texts: Li Tai Po, trans. Klabund (1959; IMI 25)
YEHEZKEL BRAUN: Four songs from Seven Sephardic Romances for V & pno (1968; IMI 165)

Bracha Kol – Mez
Rami Tal – fl
Sara Tal – pno....

Mar 2, Lawrence, NY....
PAUL BEN-HAIM:
Hatikva, arr for SO (IMI 7317)
Fanfare to Israel for SO (1950; IMI 7314)

MARC LAVRY: Emek – Symphonic Poem (1937; IMI 6706)

Lawrence Philharmonic
Yuval Waldman – cond....

Mar 2, Sde Boker
Mar 3, Jerusalem (Voice of Music 'Etnachta' concert series)
Mar 4, Tel Aviv....
ARI BEN-SHABETAI: Aimez-vous Brahms? for pno trio (2007; WP)
MENACHEM WIESENBERG: Like Clay in the Potter's Hand for vcl & pno (1994; IMI 6994)
HILAT BEN-KENNAZ: In Chromatic Mood for cl, bn, vln, vcl & pno (2007/8)

Ensemble Meitar (Moshe Aharonov – vln, Anat Englmayer – vcl, Yonatan Hadas – cl, Nadav Cohen – bn, Amit Dolberg – pno)....

Mar 11, Tel Aviv....
EREL PAZ: Bruckner's Force for pno qrt (2002)
Shlomi Shem-Tov – pno, Gilad Hildesheim – vln, Itamar Ringel – vla, Anat Engelmayer – vcl....

Mar 17, Jersualem (Voice of Music 'Etnachta' concert series)
Mar 20, Tel Aviv....
JOACHIM STUTSCHEWSKY: Hassidic Fantasy for cl, vcl & pno (1972)
Shirley Brill – cl
Members of the Oberon Trio (Julia Tom – vcl, Jonathan Aner – pno....

Mar 16, Wroclav, Poland....
OEDOEN PARTOS: In Memoriam for vla & StrO (1947; IMI 6102)

Avri Levitan – vla
Wratislavia Chamber Orchestra
Jan Stanienda – leader....

Mar 5, Madrid
Mar 6, Oviedo
Mar 8, Genf (Geneve)....
MENACHEM WIESENBERG: Encounters IV – Suita concertante for classical vln, klezmer vln & StrO (2006; IMI 7761)

Julia Schröder – Klezmer vln
Sarah Immer – classical vln
Kammerorchester Basel
David Stern – cond....

Mar 9, Dornbirn, Austria
Mar 13, Munich
Mar 15, Istanbul....
BETTY OLIVERO: Neharot, Neharot for vla, accordion, perc, 2 StrEs & MagT (2007; IMI 7783)

Kim Kashkashian – vla
Münchener Kammerorchester
Alexander Liebreich – cond....

Mar 24, Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv Chamber Music Society....
AYAL ADLER: Shades… to Colours for pno & str qrt (2002; IMI 7510)
Eliyahu Shulman & Sivan Zelikoff – vlns, Yael Shahar – vla, Raz Cohen – vcl, Ron Trachtman – pno, Karin Ben Yosef – cond

ALEX WASSERMAN: 'Last Songs' for A & vla (2007; WP). Texts: Leah Goldberg
Etti Ben Zaken – A, Galia Hai – vla

MICHAEL WOLPE: Epigrams for Piano Solo, dedicated to Andre Hajdu (2005)
Herut Israeli – pno....

Mar 28, Jerusalem....
HAIM ALEXANDER: Four dances from 'Six Israeli Dances' for 2 pnos (1951; IMI 7193)

Orit & Dalia Ouziel – pnos....

Mar 28, 29, Tel-Aviv–Jaffa
Mar 30, Jerusalem Music Centre....
JOSEF BARDANASHVILI: Moonlight Illusions (inspired by Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire) for ChE (2008; WP)
Israel Contemporary Players, Renaud Déjardin – cond....

Mar 15, Davneport, Iowa
Mar 18, 19, New York....
PAUL BEN-HAIM: Berceuse Sfaradite; Sonatina for pno, op. 38 (1946; IMI 7350)
MARC LAVRY: Five Israeli Country Dances (1952; IMI 6761B)
ALEXANDER URIYAH BOSKOVICH: The Golden Chain (1937; IMI 5B)

Ofra Yitzhaki – pno....

February 2008

Feb 12, Jerusalem
Feb 13, Rehovot
Feb 14, Haifa
Feb 15, 16, Tel Aviv....
ARI BEN-SHABETAI: Concerto Grosso for fl, ob, bn, hn, vln, vla, vcl, hpd & StrO (2007; WP)

Israel Camerata Jerusalem
Avner Biron – cond....

Feb 9, Haifa
Feb 10, Tel Aviv
Feb 11, Jerusalem....
MARK KOPYTMAN: Beyond All This for ChO (1997; IMI 7235)

The Tel Aviv Soloists Ensemble
Barak Tal - cond....

Feb 13, Beit Shean
Feb 15,Givat Brenner
Feb 17, Givaatayim
Feb 18, Dorot
Feb 20, Nahariya....
BOAZ BEN-MOSHE: Canaanite Symphony for vln & ChO (2006; WP)

Hagai Shaham – vln
Israel Kibbutz Orchestra
Luis Gorelik – cond....

Feb 12, Tel Aviv-Jaffa....
REUVEN KAZHILOTI: Sonata for unaccompanied vln (2001)
PAUL BEN-HAIM: Music for unaccompanied vcl (1977; IMI 7335)
YARON GOTTFRIED: "Let's Rock" – Duo for vln & vcl
YEHEZKEL BRAUN: Day and Day for voice, vcl & pno (1998; IMI 7159). Text: Yocheved Bat-Miriam
RON WEIDBERG: "Because..." Songs for V, cl, vln, vcl & pno (2001). Texts: Miriam Yalan-Stekelis
MICAHEL WOLPE: Piano Trio No. 1 (1993)

Efrat Carmoush – S, Udi Naveh – cl
Chamber Society for Israeli Music (Nitai Zori – vln, Hillel Zori – vcl, Michal Tal – pno)

....

Feb 25, Jerusalem (Voice of Music 'Etnachta' concert series)....
YITZHAK YEDID: Myth of the Cave for cl, db & pno (2005)

Nitai Levi – cl/b-cl, Ora Boasson-Horev – db, Yitzhak Yedid – pno....

Feb 11, Jerusalem (Voice of Music 'Etnachta' concert series)....
DANIEL SHALIT: Introduction, Song and Dance (IP)
Yuval Trio (Yonatan Zak – pno, Uri Pianka – vln, Simcha Heled – vcl)....

Feb 14, Felicja Blumental Music Centre
Feb 19, Jerusalem Music Centre....
AVIYA KOPELMAN: Nearing for ob & pno
ORIT GUREL: Sea – song cycle for S, pno, vln & ob
NAAMA NAZARATHI: The Circle for S, CT & pno
YONI RECHTER (arr. NAAMA NAZARATHI): Jaffa doses

Naama Nazarathi – Mez, Doron Schleifer – CT
Adi Kedem – ob, Yoni Gertner – vln, Rani Orenstein – pno....

Feb 28, Tel-Aviv–Jaffa....
YITZHAK YEDID: Visions, Fantasies and Dances for str qrt (2007; WP; IMI 7803)

Hadas Fabrikant & Carmel Raz – vlns, Amit Landau – vla, Jonathan
Gotlibovich – vcl....

Feb 28, Eilat....
MENACHEM WIESENBERG: Overture for Strings – Homage to Mendelssohn (2001)
GIL SHOHAT: The Rest is Silence – In Memoriam for Souls Lost in the World: a Melancholy for 16 strings (2006)

Mahler ChO
Gregory Ahss – Leader....

January 2008

Jan 1, Jerusalem Music Centre....
GILAD COHEN: Concrete Fantasy for vcl & pno (WP)
Gal Nyska – vcl, Nadav Hertzka – pno....

Jan 17, Felicja Blumental Music Centre
Jan 22, Jerusalem Music Centre....
ORI BEN-YOSEF TALMON: Forest of Secondary Trees for pno qrt (2007)

Yoo-Jin Cho – vln, Lotem Beider – vla, Jonathan Gotlibovitch – vcl, Batia Murviz – pno....

Jan 8, Tel Aviv....
YONI BEN-SIRA: Awakening for V & ChE (2007; WP). Text: Shams al-Din Hafiz (trans. Daniel Ladinsky)

MATAN PORAT: Animal Farm – Opera in One Act (2007; WP)
Libretto: Ofir Barkan & Matan Porat, after George Orwell's "Animal Famr: A Fairy Story"
Stage Director: Julia Pevzner

The Buchmann-Mehta School of Music Opera Ensemble Soloists (dir. Tamar Rachum)
The Workshop for Contemporary Music Players (dir. Ruben Seroussi)

Xu Yi-An – conductor....

Jan 5, Tel Aviv-Jaffa
Jan 6, Haifa
Jan 7, Jerusalem Music Centre....
HAGAR KADIMA:
Straight Lines, a Drawing Manual for ob, vln, vcl & pno (2005)
Waltz to Her (Who Binds Her Soul in Love) for S, cl, vln, vcl, perc(1) & pno (2006). Text: S.Shifra

HILA TAMIR-OSTROVER:
Lament for vln (2005)
Leah for cl, vln, vcl & pno (2005)

RACHEL GALINNE:
Trio Energico for vln, vcl & pno (2005)
A Song for ob (2005)

Matthew Peaceman – ob, Yael Barolsky – vln, Oron Schwartz – perc
Ensemble Meitar (Tehila Nini-Goldstein – S, Jonathan Hadas – cl, Anat Engelmayer – vcl, Amit Dolberg – pno)....

Jan 14-16, Tel Aviv....
GIL SHOHAT: Symphony of Fire – Symphony no. 3 (2000)
Israel ChO
Gil Shohat – cond
....

Tel Aviv-Jaffa:

Dec 25, 30
Jan 1, 2
Feb 25
Mar 2
....
RON WEIDBERG: Metamorphosis – Opera in Three Acts (2007; WP)
Libretto: Ron Weidberg, after Franz Kafka

Asaf Preienta (Gregor), Tamar Kleinberger (Greta), Sharon Dvorin (The Mother), Yael Maftsir (The Maid), Guy Manheim (The Father), Misha Geisinsky (Clerk/Lodger)

Shira Legman/ Ron Weidberg – pno, Alexei Soba – vln, Dan Weinstein – vcl, Michal Beit Halachmi – cl, Jennifer Kessler – hn, Adi Mentzel/ Dafna Yitzhaki – fl

Yuval Zamir – director

Omer Wellber/ Roi Oppenheim – conds....

2 Jan, Felicja Blumental Music Centre, Tel Aviv....
JOSEF TAL: Concerto No 6 for piano and MagT (1970; IMI 164)

Immanuela Gruenberg – pno....

Jan 14, Jerusalem (Voice of Music 'Etnachta' Concert Series)....
ELLA MILCH-SHERIFF:
Songs from the Edge (String Quartet No. 1) for Mez & str qrt (2006; IMI 7721)
Text: Annette G. Pashayan

Three songs by Alma Mahler, arr for S & str qrt (2007)

Shira Tal – Mez
Israel Contemporary String Quartet (Hadas Fabrikant & Tali Goldberg – vlns, Shuli Waterman – vla, Hilla Epstein – vcl)....

Jan 1, Tel Aviv-Jaffa....
NOA BLASS:

Collage for V & pno (2006). Text: Hadasah Tal
Fantasia for pno & four gongs (2007)
Seven Inventions for vln (2006)
Incantation for V & perc (rev. 2007)
Lamentations, and Mourning, and Woe for two Vs (2006). Text: Ezekiel
The Song of the Cicadas for pno, sax & perc (2002)

ANAT FORT: Noa's Smile – jazz improvisation for pno

Etti Ben-Zaken (all vocal works) & Anat Pick (Lamentations) – vocalists, Giori Politi – perc, Yael Barolsky – vln, Gan Lev – sax, Ofra Yithzaki – pno (in Noa Blass's works)....

Jan 6, Jerusalem Music Centre
Jan 12, Tel Aviv....
GILAD HOCHMAN: Slightly Disturbed – Monodrama (2006; IMI 7753); version for for cl, vln & db

Ensemble Gropius (Tibi Cziger – cl, Sivan Zelikoff – vln, Alexandra Scott – db)
....

Jan 10, Lucern....
BENJAMIN YUSUPOV: Concerto for vcl & SO (2006; WP)
Mischa Maisky – vcl
Lucerne SO
Benjamin Yusupov – cond....

December 2007

Dec 12-17; Jerusalem, Tel Aviv....
ODED ZEHAVI: new work

Israel Camerata Jerusalem
Avner Biron – cond....

Dec 12,13, Jerusalem....
MENACHEM ZUR: Tuba Concerto (1992)

Shmuel Hershko - tuba
Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, IBA
Leon Botstein - cond....

Dec 23, 24, Tel Aviv
Dec 25, Jerusalem....
TZVI AVNI: Meditations on a Drama (1966; IMI 106)

Israel ChO
Yoav Talmi – cond....

Dec 12, Tel Aviv
Dec 13, Haifa
Dec 14, Or Akiva....
BORIS PIGOVAT: Toccata for StrO

Israel ChO
Vag Papian – cond....

Dec 1, Tel Aviv....
YEHEZKEL BRAUN: Mesembrianthema (Midday Flowers) – five bagatelles for vln & pno (1987; IMI 6588)

Eckard Lorenzen – vln, Batia Steinbok-Lorenzen – pno....

Dec 1, Jaffa–Tel Aviv....
ABEL EHRLICH: Something About the Fourth Dimension for cl, vln & vcl (1993)
JOSEF TAL: Sonata for vln & pno (1952; IMI 6620)
BETTY OLIVERO: Aria for cl, vln, vcl & pno (2005; IMI 7712)
MARC LAVRY: ‘Yemenite Wedding’ and ‘Hora’ from Three Jewish Dances for vln & pno (1945; IMI 6762)
HAIM ALEXANDER: Oriental Phantasy – Piano Trio No. 2 (2002; IMI 7504)

Ilya Schwartz – cl, David Strongin – vln
Chamber Society for Israeli Music (Nitai Zori – vln, Hillel Zori – vcl, Michal Tal – pno....

Dec 28, Tel Aviv-Jaffa....
AYAL ADLER: At the Gate of Darkness – Two songs for Mez, fl/pic, cl, bn, vln, vcl & pno (2006; IMI 7715). Texts: David Vogel
OFER PELZ: InsideOut for cl, vln, vcl & pno (2007)
ARIK SHAPIRA: Achtung Raponzel for V, cl, vln, vcl & pno (2007; WP). Texts: from the Brothers Grimm's Fairytales
MARK KOPYTMAN: 'If There Are Seven Heavens' for v & VCL (2001). Texts: Edmond Jabes
SIVAN COHEN-ELIAS: Wheels in Space for fl, cl, vln, vcl & pno (2007; WP)

Yael Barolsky – vln, Hagar Shachal – fl
Ensemble Meitar (Ayelet Amots – Mez, Anat Engelmayer – vcl, Jonathan Hadas – cl, Nadav Cohen – bn, Amit Dolberg – pno)

Guy Feder – cond....

Dec 26, Felicja Blumental Music Centre, Tel Aviv
Jan 1, Jerusalem Music Centre....
GILAD COHEN: Concrete fantasy (2007; WP)

Gal Nyska – vcl, Nadav Hertzka – pno....

Dec 18, Jerusalem Music Centre
Dec 24, Felicja Blumental Music Centre, Tel Aviv....
PAUL BEN-HAIM: Serenade for fl, vln, vla & vcl (1952; IMI 7344)

Gili Schwartzman – flute, Guy Braunstein – vln, Noam Haimovitz – vla, Gilad Kaplansky – vcl....

Dec 4, Jerusalem Music Centre....
MARK KOPYTMAN: Alliterations for pno (1993; IMI 7215)
Ishay Shaer – pno....

Dec 25, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan....
CONCERT IN MEMORY OF YARDENA ALOTIN

YARDENA ALOTIN:
Sonatina for vln & pno (1970; IMI 354)
String Quartet (1964; WP)
Six Piano Pieces for Children (1954; IMI 58)

URI BRENNER: Fragments from "A Walk" for pno
ALEXNADER ROSENBLAT: Variations on a Theme by Paganini for pno (1988)

Evgenia Epstein & Marina Schwartz – vlns, Amos Boazson – vla, Yanna Dunichev – vcl, Uri Brenner – pno....

Dec 27, Jerusalem....
Special Concert to Celebrate André Hajdu’s 75th Birthday

Excerpts from the cycle 'When the Bible Smiles' for girls choir (WP)

Dreams of Spain Cantata on the Expulsion of Jews from Spain for A, T (or CT), nar, mixed choir, boy's choir & SO (1992; IMI 7444)

Josef Salama – nar
Bracha Kol – A, Yaniv Rifer – T
Alex Grusberg – pno, Yair Harel – zarb

Choir of the Jerusalem Academy for Music and Dance
Li-Ron Children's Choir (conductor: Ronit Shapira)
Tontine Vocal Ensemble (conductor: Tami Kleinhaus)

Jerusalem SO, IBA
Stanley Sperber – cond....

Dec 23, Cathedral of Artegna, Italy....
PAUL BEN-HAIM: Poeme for hp (1959; IMI 7338)

Emanuela Battigelli – hp....

Dec 22, Tel Aviv–Jaffa
Dec 24, Jerusalem (Voice of Music ‘Etnachta’ Concert Series)....
LIOR NAVOK: The Old Photo Box – 20 miniatures for piano (2006; IP)

Gila Goldstein, Einav Yarden & Ofra Yitzhaki – pno
....

Dec 17, Jerusalem (Voice of Music ‘Etnachta’ Concert Series)....
NURIT JUGEND: A Thought… Miniature for pno (1997)

Ofra Yitzhaki – pno....

Dec 15, Pordenone, Italy
Dec 17, Trieste, Italy....
LEON SCHIDLOWSKY: Five Pieces for hp (1989; IMI 6822)
JAN FREIDLIN: 'Third Vision' from Sonata in Three Visions for hp (1996; IMI 7092)
PAUL BEN-HAIM: Poeme for hp (1959; IMI 7338)

Emanuela Battigelli – hp....

Dec 2, 3, Hamburg....
AVNER DORMAN: Frozen in Time for perc(1) & SO (2007; WP)

Martin Grubinger – perc
Hamburger Philhamoniker
Simone Young – cond....

Dec 10, Tel Aviv....
ALEX WASSERMAN: Duo for 2 vcls (2007; WP)
Emanuel Gruber & Peter Thiemann – vcls....

Dec 18, Jaffa–Tel Aviv
Dec 20, Jerusalem Music Centre....
RUBEN SEROUSSI: Nikel for sax, gui, perc(1) & pno (2007; WP; IMI 7800)

Ensemble Nikel (Gan Lev – sax, Yaron Deutsch – e-gui, Amir Lavy – perc, Benjamin Hochman – pno)....

Dec 10, Jerusalem....
MARK KOPYTMAN: Fermane for V & 3 cls (1998; IMI 7384)
Ilana Eliya – V
Limor Levy, Ido Azrad & Gadiel Dumbrovner – cl
Israel Sharon – cond

MENACHEM WIESENBERG: Encounters I for ud & pno (1992)
Menachem Wiesenberg – pno, Taiseer Elias – ud

TZVI AVNI: Pastoral and Dance for cl & pno (1955/2003; IMI 7528)
Ido Azrad – cl, Allan Sternfield – pno

GILAD COHEN: By Night on My Bed for mixed choir
TZVI AVNI: The Lord is My Shepherd – Motet for mixed choir (2007; WP; IMI 7798)
MENACHEM WIESENBERG: "Rest is Come to the Weary", from Two Songs of the Land for mixed choir (1998; IMI 6845)
LOTEM AZNER: Prayer for mixed choir

The Chamber Choir of the Jerusalem Academy for Music and Dance
Stanley Sperber – cond....

Dec 29, Felicja Blumental Music Centre, Tel Aviv....
EMANUEL VAHL: "Jewish" Quintet for pno & str qrt, op. 100 (2007)

Eliyahu Shulman & Idit Shulman – vlns, Eliana Lovenberg – vla, Avigail Arad – vcl, Herut Israeli – pno....

Dec 25, Felicja Blumental Music Centre, Tel Aviv....
PAUL BEN-HAIM: Five Piano Pieces, op. 34 (1943)

Ilan Levin – pno....

Dec 23, Tel Aviv....
TSIPPI FLEISCHER: Four Madrigals from Scenes of Israel (1981-1983)
MORDECHAI ZEIRA, arr. AVNER ITAI: Two Israeli Songs
PAUL BEN-HAIM: Elohai Tsidki, ver for mixed choir (1944)

Collegium Tel Aviv, Avner Itai – cond....

November 2007

Nov 11, Tel Aviv....
ANDRE HAJDU: Jewish Rhapsody for cl/b-cl & StrO (1974; IMI 367)

Orit Orbach – cl
The Tel Aviv Soloists Ensemble
Barak Tal – cond....

Nov 4, London....
PAUL BEN-HAIM: Three Songs Without Words for vln & 12 str (1967; IMI 7368)
MICHAEL WOLPE: Flute Concerto
OEDOEN PARTOS: In Memoriam for vla & pno (1947; IMI 6102B)
MENACHEM WIESENBERG: Overture for Strings – Homage to Mendelssohn (2001)
MENACHEM WIESENBERG: Song of Land, song by Alexander Argov, arr for StrO (1996; IMI 7061A)

Ruth Waterman – vln
Yossi Arnheim – fl
Rivka Golani – vla
EMFEB (Every Music For Everybody Orchestra)
Benjamin Ellin – cond....

Nov 24, Montreal, Canada....
AYAL ADLER: Circles in Time for ChE (2004; IMI 7533)
EREL PAZ: Muting Adolescence for vcl & ChE (2006)
JOSEF BARDANASHVILI: Steps for ChE (1998)
BETTY OLIVERO: Juego de siempre - Ladino songs for female voice, fl, cl, hp, perc(1), vln, vla & vcl (1994; IMI 6920)

Catherine Perron – vcl
Esti Kenan Ofri – V
Nouvel Ensemble Moderne
Lorraine Vaillancourt – cond....

Nov 10, Tel Aviv
Nov 15, Haifa
Nov 22, Kfar Sava....
ELLA MILCH-SHERIFF: Dark Am I... A musical fantasy based on The Song of Songs (2007) Text: Verses from the Song of Songs, selected by Keren Hadar and Ella Milch-Sheriff

Keren Hadar – S, David Feldman – CT, Nimrod Grinboim/Eitan Drori – T, Ville Lignell – Bar
Margalit Gafni – fl/pic, Muki Zohar – ob/ehn, Alon Reuven – hn, Daniel Bard – vln, Avshalom Sarid – vla, Jonathan Gotlibovich – vcl, Orit Zelniker – db, Giori Politi – perc, Yoni Farhi – pno
Tamir Chasson – cond....

Nov 17, Tel Aviv....
ELLA MILCH-SHERIFF:
Songs from the Edge (String Quartet No. 1) for Mez & str qrt (2006; IMI 7721)
Text: Annette G. Pashayan

Three songs by Alma Mahler, arr for S & str qrt (2007; WP for this arrangement)

Karin Shifrin – Mez
Israel Contemporary String Quartet (Hadas Fabrikant & Tali Goldberg – vlns, Katia Polin – vla, Hilla Epstein – vcl)....

Nov 26, Jerusalem
Nov 28, 29, Tel Aviv
....
OEDOEN PARTOS: Concertino for StrO. Ver of String Quartet No. 1 (1932/1953; IMI 6106A)

Israel ChO
Karl-Heinz Steffens – cond....

Nov 3, Tel Aviv
Nov 4, Jerusalem Music Centre....
GILAD RABINOVITCH: Nocturn for ChE (2007; WP)

Israel Contemporary Players
Zsolt Nagy – cond....

Nov 10, Felicja Blumental Music Centre, Tel Aviv
Nov 12, Jerusalem (Voice of Music Etnachta concert series)....
YEHEZKEL BRAUN: Spätlese – song cycle for bar & pno (2007)
Text: Heinrich Heine

Andreas Reibenspies – bar, Adi Bar – pno....

Nov 22, Montreal....
GIDEON LEWENSOHN: Serenade for Three Quintets (str qnt; ww qnt; hp, perc(2) & pno duo) (1988)
DAN YUHAS: Entities for ChE (1983; IMI 6959)

Nouvel Ensemble Modern
Lorraine Vaillancourt – dir....

Nov 23, 24, Tel Aviv
Dec 10, 21, Tel Aviv
Dec 11, Jerusalem....
AVIRAM FREIBERG: Ketem [Stain] – an opera in one act (2007; WP)
Libretto: Ronen Moldovan

Hilla Nof/Iris Kretzer-Karlin – Abigail (S), Liat Murdoch – Malka (Mez), Tal Koch – Yoni (T), Shlomo Blumenfeld – Assi (T), Ari Amir – David (Bar)
Shachar Ziv/Ronit Segev – pno
Director: Arieh Eldar
....

Nov 17, Tel Aviv....
ALEXANDER (SASHA) ARGOV: Seven songs, arr for str qrt
Song of Land, arr Menachem Wiesenberg (1996; IMI 7061)
What I Wished For, arr Benjamin Yusupov(1997; IMI 7150)
Balconies, arr Moshe Rasiuk (1997; IMI 7154)
4 songs arr by Eitan Steinberg, Sara Shoham and Dikla Baniel (2007; WP)

Israel Contemporary String Quartet (Hadas Fabrikant & Tali Goldberg – vlns, Katia Polin – vla, Hilla Epstein – vcl)....

Nov 11, Varese, Italy....
ELLA MILCH-SHERIFF: Touches for vln & vla (2007; WP)
Hagit Halaf – vln, Christoph Langheim – vla....

Nov 17, 19, Beer Sheva
Nov 22, Tel Aviv....
MENACHEM WIESENBERG: Encounters IV – Suita concertante for classical vln, klezmer vln & ChO (2006; WP; IMI 7761A)

Itamar Zorman – classical vln
Sophie Solomon – klezmer vln
Israel Sinfonietta Beer Sheva
Doron Salomon – cond....

Nov 19, Stuttgart....
TZVI AVNI:
Phoenix for vla (2001; IMI 7793)
Pas de deux for vln & pno (2006; IMI 7789)
From My Diary for pno (2001; IMI 7262)

PAUL BEN-HAIM: Sonata for vln (1951; IMI 7347)
MORDECAI SETER: Sonata for vln (1953; IMI 27)

Kolja Lessing – vln, vla, pno (From my Diary)
Andreas Kersten – pno (Pas de deux)
....

Nov 9, Tübingen, Germany....
PAUL BEN-HAIM:
Arabic Song (1956; IMI 7302) – versions for vln & pno and for vcl & pno
Canzona for vcl & pno (1962; IMI 7308)
Sonata in G for vln (1957; IMI 7347)
Variations on a Hebrew Melody for pno trio (1939; IMI 7373)

Wolfgang Jelinck – vln, Gregor Pfisterer – vcl, Harald Streicher – pno....

Nov 13, Weimarϊ Germany....
PAUL BEN-HAIM: Berceuse Sfaradite – ver for pno
MORDECAI SETER: Triptyque III for pno (1985; IMI 6808)
BEN-ZION ORGAD: Tonegestures IV for pno (2001; IMI 7596)
LIOR NAVOK: Excerpts from The Old Photo Box for pno (2006)

Ofra Yitzhaki – pno....

October 2007

Oct 24-30, Jerusalem, Tel Aviv....
PAUL BEN-HAIM: Rhapsody for pno & StrO (1971; IMI 7343)

Dorel Golan - pno
Israel Camerata Jerusalem
Avner Biron – cond....

Oct 9-15, Jerusalem, Tel Aviv....
MARK KOPYTMAN: Beyond All This for ChO (1997; IMI 7235)

Israel Camerata Jerusalem
Avner Biron – cond
....

Oct 11, Kfar Saba
Oct 13,14, Haifa
Oct 17, Kiryat Haim....
PAUL BEN-HAIM: Concerto for vln & ChO (1960; IMI 7306)

Sivann Zelikoff – vln
Haifa Symphony Orchestra
Noam Sheriff – cond....

Oct 16, 17, 18, Tel Aviv....
SHARON FARBER: Translucent Rocks – Fantasy for Orchestra (2007; WP)

Israel ChO
Gil Shohat – cond....

Oct 11, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee....
ALEXANDER URIYAH BOSKOVICH:

Semitic Suite – ver for pno 4-hands (1954; IMI 6074)
Unison Piano Duo (Du Huang & Xiao Hu)

Psalm – ver for cl & pno; completed and arranged by Yehuda Yannai (1962/2006; WP; IMI 461)

William Helmers – cl, Jayne Latva – pno
....

Oct 22, The Institute Concert Series, Felicja Blumental Music Centre, Tel Aviv....
ALEXANDER URIYA BOSKOVICH/YEHUDA YANNAY: Psalm – ver for cl & pno (1962/2006; IP; IMI 461)

YINAM LEEF: Fibers of Silence – Song cycle for S, cl, bn, vln, vcl & pno. Text: Israel Eliraz (2007; IMI 7782)

EREL PAZ: 'A Happy Song?' for cl, bn, vln, vcl & pno (2006; IMI 7758)

JACOB GILBOA: Two Preludes from 'Ce qu'a vu le vent d'Est – Six Preludes for Jerusalem' for pno (1984; IMI 7403)

AYAL ADLER: At the Gate of Darkness – 2 Songs for Mez, fl/pic, cl, bn, vln, vcl & pno. Text: David Vogel (2006; IMI 7715)

Ensemble Meitar (Tehila Nini-Goldstein – S, Ayelet Amots – Mez, Anat Engelmayer – vcl, Jonathan Hadas – cl, Nadav Cohen – bn, Amit Dolberg – pno)

Jenny Huenigen – vln, Hagar Shachal – fl, Guy Feder – cond (guests)
....

Oct 12, 13, 14, Tel Aviv
Oct 15, Jerusalem....
ODED ZEHAVI: Kyrie (Slikhot) for ChO (2007; WP)
Israel Camerata, Jerusalem
Avner Biron – cond....

Oct 27, Tel Aviv....
NOAM SHERIFF: Festival Preludes for SO (1957; IMI 6556)

Israel PO
Zubin Mehta – cond....

Oct 20, Paris....
NOA BLASS: Had Gadia for nar & ChE (2005; WP). Text by the composer, after a poem in the Passover Hagadah

Philippe Mercier – nar
Jérome Comte – cl, Marc Trenel – bn, Benny Sluchin – trb, Samuel Favre – perc, Olivier Dauriat – pno
....

Oct 14, Laurel, Maryland, USA....
JOSEF TAL: Concerto No. 6 for pno & MagT (1970; IMI 164)

Immanuela Gruenberg – pno....

Oct 6, Dresden, Germany
Oct 10, Berlin (Leef only)....
SHULAMIT RAN: Hyperbolae for pno (1976; IMI 6070) [Silver]
PAUL BEN-HAIM: Sonatina for pno, op. 38 (1946; IMI 7350) [Garburg]
MATAN PORAT: Metropolis for two pnos (2007; WP)
SERGIU NATRA: Harmonic Sound Image for Sivan & Gil for two pnos(1998; IMI 7224)
YINAM LEEF: "...and shadows covered all the paths" for piano 4 hands and string quartet (2007; IMI 7796; WP)

Sivan Silver & Gil Garburg – pno duo
Vogler Quartet (Tim Vogler & Frank Reinecke – vlns, Stefan Fehlandt – vla, Stefan Forck – vcl)....

Oct 8,12,13,14, Tel Aviv
Oct 9, Haifa....
JOSEF TAL: Symphony No. 5 for SO (1991; IMI 6875)

The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra
Zubin Mehta - cond....

Oct 21, Haifa
Oct 22, Tel Aviv
Oct 23, Jerusalem....
JAN FREIDLIN: Poem of the Contrasts

The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra
Zubin Mehta - cond....

Oct 26,28, Tel Aviv....
DOV SELTZER: Evening of Life for S & SO. Text: Avraham Sutzkever (Yi) (2004/6, WP, IMI 7625A)

Sharon Rostorf-Zamir - S
The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra
Zubin Mehta - cond....

Oct 10, HaTeiva Studio, Tel-Aviv–Jaffa....
Homage to TZVI AVNI at his 80th Birthday

Pastorale and Dance for cl & pno (1955/2003; IMI 7528)
Vocalise for MagT (1964)
Prelude and Scherzo for fl/pic (2007; IMI 7788)
Controversy, 7 Dialogues for vln & vcl (2002; IMI 7488)
Leda and the Swan for S & cl. Quasi text by the composer (1976; IMI 6149)
Woodwind Quintet (1959; IMI 6524)


Shimrit Carmi – S, Ela Lutzky – vln, Micha Haran – vcl, Lior Eitan – fl, Bruce Weinstein – ob, Desmond Beazley – cl, Michael Slatkin – hn, Uzi Shalev – bn, Irena Friedland - pno....

Oct 29, Jerusalem (Voice of Music Etnachta concert series)....
PAUL BEN-HAIM: Supplication (Psalm 4) for Bar, mixed choir & pno, from Three Psalms (1962; IMI 7361B)

YEHEZKEL BRAUN: The Words of the Preacher, the Son of David for bar, mixed choir & pno (2006). Text: Ecclesiastes

Peter Simpson – Bar, Ruth Zori – pno
Collegium Tel Aviv, Avner Itai – cond....

Oct 29, Manchester....
TZVI AVNI: Summer Strings –String Quartet No. 1 (1962; IMI 31)

Jerusalem Quartet (Alexander Pavlovsky & Sergei Bresler – vlns,
Amichai Grosz – vla, Kyril Zlotnikov – vcl)....

Oct 18, Jerusalem....
TZVI AVNI:
Pastorale and Dance for cl & pno (1955/2003; IMI 7528)
Leda and the Swan for S & cl. Quasi text by the composer (1976; IMI 6149)

Shimrit Carmi – S, Desmond Beazley – cl, Monica Fallon – pno....

Oct 27, Jerusalem....
TZVI AVNI: Prelude and Scherzo for pic (2007; IMI 7788)

Lior Eitan – pic....

Oct 11, New York....
ON RECORD: THE COMPLETE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA CONCERTI OF AVNER DORMAN
Concerto in A for pno & StrO (1995)
Concerto for mandolin & StrO (2006)
Concerto Grosso for str qrt, hpd & StrO (2003)
Concerto for pic, pno & StrO (2001)

Eliran Avni – pno, Avi Avital – mandolin, Arnaud Sussmann and Lily Francis – vlns, Eric Nowlin – vla, Michal Korman – vcl, Aya Hamada – hpd, Mindy Kaufman – pic

Metropolis Ensemble
Andrew Cyr – cond....

Oct 3, 21, Kassel....
TSIPPI FLEISHCER: Resuscitation for vcl (1984; IMI 6569)
Karoline Roth – vcl....

Oct 18, Berlin....
GABRIEL IRANYI: Hauptweg und Nebenwege for pno trio (2007; WP)
Boulanger Trio (Birgit Erz – vln, Ilona Kindt – vcl,
Karla Haltenwanger – pno....

Oct 22, Orono, Maine, USA....
HAIM ALEXANDER: Six Israeli Dances for pno (1951; IMI 7191)
PAUL BEN-HAIM: Sonatina, op. 38 for pno (1946; IMI 7350)
MARK LAVRY: Israeliana for pno
MARK KOPYTMAN: Kaddish for vla or vcl & pno (1981; IMI 7388B)
Noreen Silver - vcl
Phillip Silver - pno....

September 2007

Sep 6, Jerusalem....
AVNER DORMAN: Jerusalem Mix for ob, cl, hn, bn & pno(2007; WP; Commissioned by the Jerusalem International Chamber Music Festival)

Bishara Harouny - pno, Roni Gal-Ed - ob, Julian Bliss - cl, Michal Mossek - hn, Mauricio Paez - bn....

Sep 17, Haifa Auditorium
2007 ISRAELI MUSIC CELEBRATION

ENCOUNTERS WITH ISRAELI COMPOSERS
....
1) IN PRAISE OF ROMANTICISM
Moderator: Michael Wolpe

SHLOMO OMER: String Quartet No. 2
DOV SELTZER: String Quartet
Kinneret Quartert (Alla Rapaport & Marian Rapaport – vlns, Viktor Christosov – vla & Lev Matiukov – vcl)

2) HUMAN PRAYER
Moderator: Eitan Steinberg

AVNER HANANI: ‘Variations for the Uncommon Man’ for str qrt (2006)
EITAN STEINBERG: ‘Stabat Mater – Human Prayer’ for V & str qrt (2004)

Etty Ben-Zaken – V
Israel Contemporary String Quartet (Hadas Fabrikant & Noam Schuss – vlns, Katia Polin – vla, Hilla Epstein – vcl)

3) QUESTS
Moderator: Yoram Meyouhas

YORAM MEYOUHAS: Mosaic 4 for pno qrt (2002)
GAD AVRAHAMI: It – String Quartet No. 2, after a poem by Czesław Miłosz (2006)

Bella Steinbuck – pno
Members of the Israel ChO: Haya Livni & Pavel Levin – vlns, Yoram Meyouhas – vla, Marina Katz – vcl

4) THE NEXT GENERATION
Moderator: Oded Zehavi

SHIMRIT MALUL: ‘Shadows’ for str qrt (2006; WP)
MA’AYAN TSADKA: Horn qrt (2007; WP)
Performed by students from the Jerusalem Academy of Music & Dance....

Sep 17, Haifa Auditorium
2007 ISRAELI MUSIC CELEBRATION

ACROSS THE GENERATIONS (1)
....
MARK LAVRY: Daliyat-el-Carmel – Rhapsody for SO (1962; IMI 6898)
BOAZ BEN-MOSHE: Concerto for gui & SO (2006; WP)
AHARON HARLAP: Concerto for vla & SO (2006; IP; IMI 7722)
MENACHEM AVIDOM: Symphony No. 7, “The Philharmonic” (1961; IMI 272)

Liat Cohen – gui
Rivka Golani – vla
Haifa SO
Aharon Harlap – cond (Ben-Moshe, Harlap)
Noam Sheriff – cond (Lavry, Avidom)....

Sep 18, Ben-Gurion University, Beer Sheva
2007 ISRAELI MUSIC CELEBRATION

ACROSS THE GENERATIONS (2)
....
AYAL ADLER: Journeys for ChO (1999/2007; IMI 7797; IP)
OEDOEN PARTOS: Visions for fl, pno & StrO (1957; IMI 6101)
HADAS GOLDSCHMIDT-HALFON: Knock on Wood – Concerto for perc & ChO (2005)
TSIPPI FLEISCHER: Symphony No. 4 – A Passing Shadow (2000; IMI 7265)
KORIN ALAL: Songs, arr for V & ChO (arrangements by: Sarit Shlay; Dotan Braude; Ron Keinan; Avi Bar-Eitan)

Korin Alal – V
Roi Amots – fl
Chen Zimbalista – perc
Itamar Duari – folk perc, Ayal Sela – folk ww (Fleischer)
Israel Sinfonietta Beer Sheva
Doron Salomon – cond....

Sep 19, Jerusalem Theatre
2007 ISRAELI MUSIC CELEBRATION....

A BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION

TZVI AVNI: Metamorphoses on a Chorale by Bach for SO (1985; IMI 6559)
PAUL BEN-HAIM: Concerto for pno & SO (1949; IMI 7305)
OEDOEN PARTOS: Song of Praise – Concert No. 1 for vla & SO (1949; IMI 300)
SHIMON COHEN: Jerusalem Sketches – Rhapsody for SO (1981; IMI 7431)

Gila Goldstein – pno
Itamar Ringel – vla
Jerusalem SO, IBA
Mendi Rodan – cond
....

Sep 18, Ben-Gurion University, Beer Sheva
THE 2007 ISRAELI MUSIC CELEBRATIONS....
THE MANDOLIN AT THE CENTRE

SHAUL BUSTAN: Mandolin Quintet (WP)
ITAI ROSENBAUM: Mandolin Quintet
GIL SHOHAT: Mandolin Concerot, arr for mandolin, str qrt & db
MENCAHEM ZUR: Prelude for vln, arr for mandolin

Yaacov Reuven – mandolin & moderator
Members of Ensemble Kaprizma....

Sep 18, Ben-Gurion University, Beer Sheva
2007 ISRAELI MUSIC CELEBRATION

ENCOUNTERS WITH ISRAELI COMPOSERS

....
1) IN PRAISE OF ROMANTICISM
Moderator: Michael Wolpe

AMOS ELKANA: String Quartet No. 2 (2004)
MAX STERN: Bedouin Impressions – ver for str qrt
Kinneret Quartert (Alla Rapaport & Marian Rapaport – vlns, Viktor Christosov – vla & Lev Matiukov – vcl)

2) HUMAN PRAYER
Moderator: Ronen Shapira

RONEN SHAPIRA: 'Strings of Peace' for ud & pno (2007; WP)
Ronen Shapira – ud, Revital Hachamoff – pno

3) THE NEXT GENERATION
Moderators: Amit Gilutz & Gilad Hochman

AMIT GILUTZ: Argumentum for str qrt (2006)
GILAD HOCHMAN: Slightly Disturbed – Monodrama for cl, vln & vcl (2006; IMI 7753)

Ishay Lantner – cl, Yael Barolsky & Natasha Sher – vlns, Yael Patish – vla, Raz Cohen – vcl....

Sep 19, Jerusalem Theatre
2007 ISRAELI MUSIC CELEBRATION

ACROSS THE GENERATIONS (3)
AMIT WEINER: Jerusalem Lights for pno & ChO (2007; WP)
MARK KOPYTMAN: Dedication (Cantus IV) for vln & ChO (1997/2004; IMI 7247A)
VLADIMIR SCOLNIC: Games... Horror... Visions... for ChO (2002; IP)
RON WEIDBERG: Concerto No. 2 for pno & ChO (2003; IMI 7530)

Amit Weiner – pno (Weiner)
Alexander Pavlovsky – vln
Revital Hachamoff – pno (Weidberg)

Israel Camerata Jerusalem
Omer Welber – cond

Sep 17, Hecht Auditorium, Haifa
ISRAELI MUSIC CELEBRATION

TOUCHING THE HEART – TOUCHING THE SOUL

In Honour of the Recipients of the 2007 Prime Minister's Award for Composers....
EITAN STEINBERG: Heikhan ta'inu, toda raba for female vocalist and small instruments (2002). Text: Dan Pagis
AVIYA KOPELMAN: Job's Silence for vcl & pno (2004)
AVI ADRIAN: Improvisation on Jewish Melodies
IRENA SVETOVA: In Memory of an Unknown Jew for cl, vcl & pno (2006)
GILAD HOCHMAN: Slightly Disturbed – Monodrama for cl, vln & vcl (2006; IMI 7753)
RICHARD FARBER: Angelique for vln, vcl & pno (2007; WP)

Etti Ben-Zaken – vocalist, Eli Heifetz (Svetova) & Ishay Lantner – cls, Jana Gandelman – vln, Tzvi Plesser (Kopelman) & Anat Engelmayer – vcl, Avi Adrian, Aviya Kopelman & Sara Tal – pno....

Sep 17, Haifa Auditorium
2007 ISRAELI MUSIC CELEBRATION
....
THE SONG OF THE CHOIRS

Youth choirs from central and north Israel will present a selection of Israeli songs and choral works.....

Sep 19, Jerusalem Theatre
2007 ISRAELI MUSIC CELEBRATION

ENCOUNTERS WITH ISRAELI MUSICIANS....
1) BACH WITHOUT BACH:
PRELUDES, FUGUES AND PASSACAGLIAS IN ISRAELI MUSIC

TZVI AVNI: From There and Then (1998; IMI 7184)
AMI MAAYANI: Excerpts from his cycle of Fantasies in the Form of Preludes and Fugues
ERICH WALTER STERNBERG: Double Fugue from Östliche Visionen (1925; IMI 7694)
Ron Weidberg: excerpts from Voyage to the End of the Millennium, a cycle of 24 preludes and fugues (1999)

Assaf Shelleg – pno & moderator

2) THE BEST OF ALL WORLDS
Yaron Gottfried – composers, jazz pianist, teacher, artistic director and conductor – introduces and performs some of his music, and talks about his many activities.

3) IN POETIC SPIRIT
Moderator: Yair Harel

Arrangements of traditional prayers, and original works and improvisations based on traditional Jewish prayers (melodies and texts) and modern Hebrew poetry.

Tafilalt Trio (Yair Harel – V & perc, Yonatan Niv – V & vcl, Nori Jacoby – V & vla).

4) YOUTHFUL SPIRIT
Moderator: Ronit Katz

Songs by Mati Kaspi, Alexander (Sasha) Argov, Yonni Rechter and others, arr for vocal ensemble

Ensemble Fifth-and-a-half (Katzenelson High School in Kfar Sava)
Doron Ben-Ami – cond & arrangements....

Sep 19, Jerusalem Theatre
2007 ISRAELI MUSIC CELEBRATION

ENCOUNTERS WITH ISRAELI COMPOSERS
....
1) IN PRAISE OF ROMANTICISM

SARAH FEIGIN: Piano Sonata (1972)
EMANUEL VAHL: Piano Suite No. 1 (2002)

Ron Regev – pno & moderator

2) QUESTS
Moderator: Nori Jacoby

HANOCH JACOBY: String Quartet No. 1 (1937; IMI 6680)

NORI JACOBY:
'An die Musik' – String Quartet No. 1
Belleli's Suite: songs by the rock band "The Tractor's Revenge", arr for V & str qrt

Avi Belleli (Tractor's Revenge) – vocalist
Israel Contemporary String Quartet (Hadas Fabrikant and Noam Schuss – vlns, Katia Polin – vla, Hilla Epstein – vcl)

3) HUMAN PRAYER
Moderator: Michael Wolpe

KAREL VOLNIANSKY: Cantate Domino & Adonai malakh [The Lord Reigneth] for choir & StrO; Epitaph for StrO
IDO SHIROM: Sanctus & In Paradisum for choir & StrO; Aria for StrO
Jerusalem Oratorio Choir
Ronen Borshevsky – cond

4) THE NEXT GENERATION
Moderator: Shaul Bustan

WASIM ODEH: works for Arab instruments & str qrt
HELEN SABELLA: Esperance for oriental vln, str qrt, kanun, ud & tabla

Yonatan Gertner & Dotan Netel – vlns, Daniel Tenkhelson – vla, Daniela Shemer – vcl
Ensemble Wattar (Wassim Odeh & Helen Sabella – ud, Mehran Mur'ab – kanun, Srur Sabella – vln, Hagai Bilitski – db, Itamar Duari – perc)
....

Sep 21, St George, Utah, USA....
ELDAD SHILOAH: Nievedes – Prelude No. 4 for marimba solo (2007; WP)

Glenn Webb – marimba....

Sep 10, Saarbrucken, Germany....
TZVI AVNI:
Phoenix for vla (2001; IMI 7793)
From My Diary for pno (2001; IMI 7262)
Capriccio for pno (1955/1975; IMI 6142)
Excerpts from 'Beside the Depths of a River' for Mez & pno (1969-1975; IMI 6039). Text: Mati Katz
Three Songs from the Song of Songs for S & pno (1957; IMI 399)
Bridges for 2 vlns (2004; IMI 7555)
Collage for Mez, fl, perc(1) & MagT. Text: Yehuda Amichai (1967; IMI 140) [This piece was played from a recording]

Kolja Lessing – pno, vla
Osnat Keidar – S, Sebastian Voltz – pno
Joshua Epstein & Gesine Kolb – vlns....

Sep 10, Saarbrucken, Germany....
TZVI AVNI: Epitaph – Piano Sonata No. 2 (1979; IMI 6287)
Ivette Kiefer – pno....

August 2007

Aug 21, Salzburg, Austria....
YEHUDA ENGEL: Elegy for vln (1967)

Yair Kless – vln....

Aug 2, Voice of Music Festival, Kfar Blum....
YEHEZKEL BRAUN: Spätlese – song cycle for bar & pno (2007; WP)
Text: Heinrich Heine
Andreas Reibenspies – bar, Adi Bar – pno....

Aug 1, Voice of Music Festival, Kfar Blum....
A Bulrush Flute: Another glimpse at the variety of songs written by Naomi Shemer. Arrangements by Oded Zehavi and Maayan Tsadka (2007; WP)

Tamar Kapsuto, Maya Menahem, Ohad Shragai – vocals
Michael Meltzer – fl, Carmela Leiman – vln, Erato Trio (Natasha Sher – vln, Yael Patish – vla, Zvi Orlianski – vcl)
Oded Zehavi – pno, music director & moderator....

Aug 3, Voice of Music Festival, Kfar Blum....
YEHUDA LEVI: Let your dust be witness for nar, e-hn, tubular bells & StrO (2007; IMIC 19; WP). Text: Anda Harel-Dagan

Eitan Shamir – nar
Tamar Narkis-Melzer – e-hn, Lev Loftus – bells
Jerusalem Strings
Ilan Schul – cond....

Aug 9, Ramat Gan, Israel....
TZVI AVNI: Prelude and Scherzo for fl (2007; WP: IMI 7788)

Lior Eitan – fl....

Aug 11, Jerusalem....
TZVI AVNI: Woodwind Quintet (1959; IMI 6524)

Lior Eitan – fl, Bruce Weinstein – ob, Desmond Beazley – cl, Michael Slatkin – hn, Uzi Shalev – bn....

Aug 23, Weimar
Aug 25, Gstaad, Switzerland
Sep 17, Luxemburg
Sep 19, Barcelona....
JOSEF BARDANASHVILI: Concerto for fl & SO (2000)

Yossi Arenheim – fl
Israel PO
Zubin Mehta – cond....

Aug 21, Jerusalem
Sep 1, Tel-Aviv–Jaffa....
DGANIT ELYAKIM: 'About Zimri & Pinchas' for nar, live electronics, cl, bn, pno, vln & vcl (WP)
HILAT BEN-KNAZ: 'In Chromatic Mood' for cl, bn, pno, vln & vcl (WP)
MERAV COHEN-HADAR: Windows Opening In A Round Room... for cl, vcl & pno (WP)
SIGAL GOLDSOBEL: Meditation - a musical sketch for nar, electronics, cl, bn, pno, vln & vcl (WP)
HANA AJIASHVILI: Three Songs by Yehuda Amichai for S, cl, bn, pno, vln & vcl (IMI 7786; WP)

Ensemble Meitar (Tehila Goldstein - S, Yael Barolsky - vln, Anat Engelmayer - vcl, Desmond Beazley - cl, Nadav Cohen - bn, Amit Dolberg - pno)....

Aug 2, Voice of Music Festival, Kfar Blum....
ORI LESHMAN: "What Will Sweeten Days If Not Poems"
Settings of poems by Leah Goldberg, Yehuda Amichai, Nathan Zach, Zelda, Haim Guri, Pinchas Sadeh, T. Carmi, Yona Wallach, Amir Gilboa, Agi Mishol and others

Dror Keren, Rama Messinger, David Sebba, Tehila Nini-Goldstein and Mai Israeli – V
Michael Melzer – fl, Maurizio Paez – bn, Carmela Leiman & Svetlana Gofman – vlns, Ron Efrat – vla, Itai Chen – vcl, Nir Comforti – db
Ori Leshman – pno, moderator....

Aug 18, Chautauqua, NY, USA....
YINAM LEEF: Night Light - Nocturno for SO after paintings by Asaf Ben-Zvi (1996; IMI 7287)
The Chautauqua Festival Orchestra
Uri Segal - cond....

July 2007

Jul 13, Seattle Chamber Music Festival, Seattle, WA....
AVNER DORMAN: Sonata No. 2 for pno (2001)
Alon Goldstein – pno....

Jul 20, Seattle Chamber Music Festival, Seattle, WA....
RON YEDIDIA: Trio for cl, vcl, & pno (2007; WP)
Alexander Fiterstein – cl, Amit Peled – vcl, Alon Goldstein – pno....

Jul 9, Munich....
GILEAD MISHORY: "Di wajte hajmat majne" (My Distant Home) for T & SO (WP), after poems by Marc Chagall

Berthold Schmid - T
Orchester Jakobsplatz
Daniel Grossmann - cond....

July 4, Berlin....
YINAM LEEF: Yizkor (In Memoriam) for fl (1995; IMI 7129)

Viola Escher - fl
....

Jul 28, Tel Aviv....
JOSEF BARDANASHVILI: Concerto for flute and SO (2000)

Yossi Arnheim - fl
The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra
Zubin Mehta - cond....

Jul 22,23, Boulder, Colorado, USA....
OFER BEN-AMOTS: Klezmer Concerto for cl & orch

David Krakauer - cl
The Colorado Music Festival Chamber Orchestra
Michael Christie - cond
....

Jul 20, Jerusalem....
PAUL BEN-HAIM: Variations on a Hebrew Melody for pno, vln & vcl (1939; IMI 7373)

Alina Yanovitzky - vln, Ina Esther Yoost-Ben-Sasson - vcl, Allan Sternfield - pno....

Jul 16, The Institute Concert Series, No. 11, Felicja Blumental Music Centre, Tel Aviv....
HOMAGE TO BEN-ZION ORGAD A YEAR AFTER HIS PASSING

Monologue for vla (1957; IMI 7567)
Songs of an Early Morning for Mez & pno. Text: Amir Gilboa (1968; IMI 138B)
Taksim for hp (1962; IMI 7585)
To the Beginning for str qrt (2004; IMI 7557)

Tehila Goldstein - Mez, Amit Dolberg - pno, Gitit Boazson - hp, Amos Boazson - vla, Israel Contemporary String Quartet (Hadas Fabrikant & Tali Goldberg – vlns, Daniel Bard – vla, Hilla Epstein – vcl)....

Jul 30, Voice of Music Festival, Kfar Blum....
SHLOMO OMER: Quintet for bn & str qrt (2007; WP)
Maurizio Paez – bn, Carmela Leiman – vln, Erato Trio (Natasha Sher – vln, Yael Patish – vla, Zvi Orlianski – vcl)

ODED ZEHAVI: Three Gypsy Songs (2007; WP)
Yaala Avital – S, Shlomi Shem-Tov – pno....

Jul 28, Voice of Music Festival, Kfar Blum....
BRIDGES: BETWEEN ST. PETERSBURG AND JERUSALEM

NADAV COHEN: Trio for bn, vcl & pno (2004)
OFER PELZ: Insideout – qrt for cl, vln, vcl & pno (2007; WP)
YINAM LEEF: Fibers of Silence – Song cycle for S, cl, bn, vln, vcl & pno. Text: Israel Eliraz (2007; IMI 7782)

Ensemble Meitar (Tehila Nini-Goldstein – S, Moshe Aharonov – vln, Anat Engelmayer – vcl, Jonathan Hadas – cl, Nadav Cohen – bn, Amit Dolberg – pno)....

Jul 27, Voice of Music Festival, Kfar Blum....
MENACHEM WIESENBERG – “A Country Composer”:
A celebration of 20 creative years

By night on my Bed for unaccompanied voice (1998)
Tehila Nini-Goldstein – S

Between the Sacred and the Profane for str qrt (1991; IMI 7062)
Daniel Bard & Tali Goldberg – vlns, Zvi Carmeli – vla, Maya Belsizman – vcl

Encounters I for ud & pno (1992)
Taiseer Elias – ud, Menachem Wiesenberg – pno

Voices: Woman, Man – choreographic version of Monodialogue for vla (1999)
Choreography: Mimi Ratz-Wiesenberg
Tabea Zimmerman – vla (with dancer Avital Manu)

Voices: Man, Woman – choreographic version of Monodialogue for vcl
Choreography: Mimi Ratz-Wiesenberg
Hillel Zori – vcl (with dancer Ran Ben-Dror)

Entrapped Bird – a song cycle to poems by Yair Hurwitz (1998)
Ensemble Meitar (Tehila Nini-Goldstein – S, Jonathan Hadas – cl, Moshe Aharonov – vln, Amit Dolberg – pno)

Songs of Land – Arrangements (with orchestrations by Menachem Wiesenberg and Amit Gilutz)
Mira Awad, Tehila Nini-Goldstein, Alon Harari – V, Taiseer Elias – ud, Ensemble Meitar....

Jul 13, Tel Aviv....
GIL SHOHAT: Michal - songs cycle for S and ChO. Text: Sh. Shifra
Merav Barnea - S
Israel Chamber Orchestra
Stanley Sperber - cond....

Jul 8,9, Tel Aviv....
GIL SHOHAT: Concerto for pno 4-hands and ChO (WP)
Gil Garburg, Sivan Silver - pno
Israel Chamber Orchestra
Gil Shohat - cond....

June 2007

Jun 13, Jerusalem Music Centre
Jun 14, HaTeiva Studio, Jaffa – Tel Aviv....
ASSAF NOY: The Wind-up Bird Chronicle for pno, cl, bn, vln and vcl (WP)
HAIM PERMONT: Zik-Ronot [Memories of Zik] for cl (2005)
YEHEZKEL BRAUN: Calls of Wild Fowl, Ver for S, vln & vcl. Text: Alkman (1999; IP; IMI 7214)
YINAM LEEF: Fibers of Silence - Song cycle for S, cl, bn, vln, vcl & pno. Text: Israel Eliraz (2007; WP; IMI 7782)
DAN YUHAS: Quartet for pno, cl, vln and vcl (WP)

Ensemble Meitar
(Tehila Goldstein - S, Jonathan Hadas - cl, Nadav Cohen - bn, Moshe Aharonov - vln, Anat Engelmayer - vcl, Amit Dolberg - pno)....

Jun 12, Tel Aviv....
OEDOEN PARTOS: Concertino, Ver for StrO of String Quartet No. 1 (1932/1953; IMI 6106)

Verbier Chamber Orchestra
Yuri Bashmet – cond....

Jun 4, Israel Festival, Henry Crown Hall, Jerusalem....
ELLA MILCH-SHERIFF: Dark Am I... A musical fantasy based on The Song of Songs (2007; WP). Text: Verses from the Song of Songs, selected by Keren Hadar and Ella Milch-Sheriff

Keren Hadar – S, David Feldman – CT, Nimrod Grinboim – T, Ville Lignell – Bar
Margalit Gafni – fl/pic, Muki Zohar – ob/ehn, Alon Reuven – hn, Daniel Bard – vln, Avshalom Sarid – vla, Jonathan Gotlibovich – vcl, Orit Zelniker – db, Giori Politi – perc, Yoni Farhi – pno
Tamir Chasson – cond....

Jun 2, Israel Festival, Jerusalem....
TZVI AVNI: From My Diary for pno (2001; IMI 7262)

Victor Stanislavski – pno....

Jun 8, Israel Festival, Jerusalem....
PAUL BEN-HAIM: Sonatina Op. 38 for piano (1946; IMI 7350)

Yaron Kohlberg – pno....

Jun 5, Horace Richter Gallery, Jaffa – Tel Aviv....
PAUL BEN-HAIM: Sonata for vln (1951; IMI 7347)

Omer Dor – vln....

Jun 14, Felicja Blumental Music Centre, Tel Aviv....
AHARON HARLAP: The Sacrifice of Isaac for mixed choir a cappella (1979; IMI 7769)

Kfar Sava Chamber Choir
Aharon Harlap – cond....

Jun 11, Jerusalem (Voice of Music Etnachta concert series)....
MATAN DANIEL PORAT: For Piano... (2006)
Matan Daniel Porat – pno....

Jun 22, Gyur, Hungary
Jun 26, Bucharest, Romania....
TZVI AVNI: Three Niggun's for Hanne'le for cl (2005; IMI 7711)

Jonathan Hadas – cl
....

Jun 23, Polling, Germany
Jun 24, Wittlich, Germany....
ABEL EHRLICH: Die Memel (after Johannes Bobrowski) for vla (1998)

TZVI AVNI:
Phoenix for vla (2001; IMI 7793)
From my Diary for pno (2001; IMI 7262)
Capriccio for pno (1955/1975; IMI 6142)

Kolja Lessing – pno, vla....

Jun 21, Budapest, Hungary
Jun 22, Gyor, Hungary
Jun 23, Szeged, Hungary
Jun 28, Sofia, Bulgaria
Jul 28, Kfar Blum, Voice of Music Festival, Israel....
YINAM LEEF: Fibers of Silence, song cycle for S, cl, bn, vln, vcl and pno. Text: Israel Eliraz (2007; IMI 7782)

Ensemble Meitar
(Tehila Goldstein - S, Jonathan Hadas - cl, Nadav Cohen - bn, Moshe Aharonov - vln, Anat Engelmayer - vcl, Amit Dolberg - pno)....

Jun 26, London....
PAUL BEN-HAIM: Melody and Variations for pno (1950; IMI 7331)
Music for Piano 1967 (IMI 7333)

Mignonette Aarons - pno....

Jun 9, Tzavta, Tel Aviv
Jun 18, Jerusalem (Voice of Music Etnachta concert series)....
YEHEZKEL BRAUN: Hexagon – Divertimento for 2 vlns, 2 vlas & 2 vcls (1998; IMI 7179)

Menachem Breuer & Rimma Kaminkovsky – vlns, Yuval Kaminkovsky & Klara Nussovitzky – vlas, Yoram Alperin & Dmitri Golderman – vcls
....

June 24, Annual Conference of the Israel Musicological Society, Levinsky College of Education, Tel Aviv....
VERDINA SHLONSKY

Five Sketches for pno (1949; IMI 381)
Five Melodies for V & pno. Texts: Guillaume Apollinaire (1939; IMI 6267)
String Quartet (1948; IMI 7784)
Hebrew Songs for V & pno (1943-1961), from 'Eight Songs' (IMI 6188), 'Let's Sing' (IMI 6178) and other sources. Texts: Shalom Shabazi, Anda Amir-Pinkerfeld, Nathan Alterman, Avraham Shlonsky

Valeria Fubini-Ventura – S (IMI 6267)
Yonit Shaked-Golan – V
Allan Sternfield – pno
Omer Dor & Nitzan Kaneti – vlns, Noam Haimovitch-Weinschel – vla, Linor Katz – vcl....

Jun 26, Felicja Blumental Music Centre, Tel Aviv....
From Here and There: A Piano Recital

AMNON WOLMAN: No Turn on Red (1993; IMI 7027)
NETA ALONI: Passacaglia (2006; WP)
RONEN SHAI: Seven Short Pieces (2006; WP)
ZOHAR EITAN: First cycle from 'Expirations' (2003; WP)
KIKI KEREN-HUSS: What I hear, here and there for pno & MagT (2006; WP)
MORDECAI SETER: Sonata (1982; IMI 6797)

Ora Rotem-Nelken – pno....

Jun 7, Tel-Aviv–Jaffa
The Culture Minister’s Awards for Music Performers....
TZVI AVNI: Two Nocturnes and Intermezzo for S, cl & pno. Text: Christine Hasenklever-Zbeida (1999-2000; IMI 7250A)
Ensemble Meitar (Tehila Nini-Goldstein – S, Jonathan Hadas – cl, Amit Dolberg – pno)

YAIR DALAL: 'Camel Dance' from The Perfume Road
Ensemble Al Ol (Avi Agbaba – perc, Eyal Sela – cl, Yotam Haimovitch – sitar, Yair Dalal – vln & ud)....

Jun 7, Liverpool....
HAIM PERMONT: Concerto for ob/ob d’amore & ChO (2007; WP; IMI 7776)

Jonathan Small – ob
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Libor Pešek – cond....

Jun 2, Raanana, Israel....
BEN-ZION ORGAD: Duo for vln & vcl (1960; IMI 241)
BIZET / HILLEL ZORI: Carmeniana - Suite Brillante on themes from Carmen for vcl & ChO

Nitai Zori - vln, Hillel Zori - vcl
Raanana Symphonette Orchestra
Nir Kabaretti - cond....

Jun 12, Hadera, Israel....
SHLOMO GRONICH: Mosaic for cl & ChO
Michael Gorfinkel - cl
Classica Chamber Orchestra Hadera
Omri Hadari - cond....

Jun 9, Haifa
Jun 11, Tel Aviv....
YEHEZKEL BRAUN: Serenade II for ChO (1997; IMI 7122)

The Tel Aviv Soloists Ensemble
Barak Tal - cond....

Jun 9, Tel Aviv
Jun 10, Jerusalem Music Center....
RUBEN SEROUSSI: "Abysses" for gui, sax & ChE (2007; IMI 7764; WP)

Ruben Seroussi - gui
Gan Lev - saxophone
Israel Contemporary Players
Zsolt Nagy - cond....

Jun 16, Hecht Auditorium, Haifa
Jun 25, Einav Centre, Tel Aviv....
YEHEZKEL BRAUN: Sonatina for pno (2006; WP)
Herut Israeli – pno

ALEX WASSERMAN: Duo for vln & vcl (2007; WP)
Eliyahu Schulman – vln
Emanuel Gruber – vcl....

Jun 12, Clairmont Hall, Buchmann-Mehta School of Music, Tel Aviv University....
DOV SELTZER: Bagatelles for pno (1958; WP; IMI 7626)
LOTTI AMIT-KALEV: The Disguise for pno (2004)
TZVI AVNI: Capriccio for pno (1955/1975; IMI 6142)
EMANUEL VAHL: Suite No. 1 for pno (2003)
SHARON FARBER: Ballade for pno (2007; WP)
SARAH FEIGIN: Theme and Variations for pno (2002)
DANIELA COHN-LEVITAS: Unter den Linden – Piano Sonata (2006)

Hagai Yodan – pno....

May 2007

May 2,3, Tel Aviv Museum....
AVNER DORMAN: Udacrep Akubrad [anagram of Darbuka Percadu] for perc(2) & ChO (2003)

PercaDu (Tomer Yariv & Adi Morag) – perc
Israel Chamber Orchestra
Nizan Leibovich – cond....

May 26, Israel Festival, Jerusalem....
YEHEZKEL BRAUN: 6 Bagatelles for two pnos (2006; WP)

Tami Kanazawa and Yuval Admoni – pno duo....

May 31, The Open University, Raanana, Israel....
MORDECAI SETER: Trio for cl, vcl & pno (1973; IMI 360)

Orit Orbach - cl
Ran Cohen - vcl
Nadia Weintraub - pno....

May 19, 'Alternativ' Gallery, Jaffa – Tel Aviv....
TSIPPI FLEISCHER: Resuscitation for vcl (1984; IMI 6569)
Noa Chorin – vcl....

May 6, Centenary United Methodist Church, Winston-Salem, NC, USA....
ELLA MILCH-SHERIFF: Oh Lord, God of Hosts, hear my Prayer: Anthem for mixed choir, Brass Quintet Timpani and Organ (2006). Text: Psalm 84

The Chancel Choir
David Pegg – cond

....

May 12, 13, Vancouver, WA, USA....
ELLA MILCH-SHERIFF: Can Heaven be Void? for S, nar & SO (2003)
Text: Shosh Avigal, Baruch Milch, Paul Celan, Bat-Sheva Sheriff; ed. Ella Milch-Sheriff & Shosh Avigal

Edmund Stone – nar
Janine Hawley – Mez
Vancouver SO
Salvador Brotons – cond....

May 18, Lyric Theater, Blacksburg, VA, USA
May 19, Reston Community Center, VA, USA....
ELLA MILCH-SHERIFF: Songs from the Edge (String Quartet No. 1) for Mez & str qrt (2006; IMI 7721). Text: Annette Pashayan

Janine Hawley – Mez
Audubon Quartet (Doris Lederer & Akemi Takayama – vlns, Ellen Jewett – vla, Clyde Shaw – vcl)
....

May 3, Jerusalem....
ELDAD SHILOAH:

Dance from Eclaires – Sonata for small drum (2004; WP)
Fourth Duet from Sextuet – Six Short Duets for perc(2) (2005; WP)

Idan Maor & Eldad Shiloah – perc....

May 2, HaTeiva Studio, Jaffa – Tel Aviv
....
ARIE SHAPIRA: Quartet for four saxaphones & electronics (2001)

Tel Aviv Saxophone Quartet (Gan Lev, Yanir Ritter, Jonathan Hazan & Ziv Slama)....

May 5, Tel Aviv
May 23, Abu Gosh Festival....
YEHEZKEL BRAUN: Et Hazzamir Higgia [The time of the singing of birds is come] for mixed choir & pno (2003; WP)
Text: Song of Songs 2:10-13

Tel Aviv Chamber Choir, Michael Shani – cond....

May 3, HaTeiva Studio, Jaffa – Tel Aviv....
ABEL EHRLICH: From the Diary for gui (2001)
YUVAL SHAKED: einseitig ruhig / string.ent.endo for gui with six E strings (1982)

Ruben Seroussi – gui....

May 31, Felicja Blumental Music Centre, Tel Aviv....
GILAD RABINOVITCH: String Quartet (2005)
GIDEON LEWENSOHN: Das Endenich Adagio for str qrt (2005)

Israel Contemporary String Quartet (Hadas Fabrikant & Tali Goldberg – vlns, Shuli Waterman – vla, Hilla Epstein – vcl)....

May 5,6,7, Haifa
May 9, Kiryat Haim....
AVNER DORMAN: Concerto in A for pno & StrO (1995)

Eliran Avni – pno
Haifa SO
Ze'ev Dorman – cond....

May 9, ‘Hassadna’ Festival of Israeli Contemporary Music, ‘Hassadna’ Conservatory, Jerusalem....
JOSEF BARDANASHVILI: Largo for vln & pno (1970)
Tania Beltzer – vln, Mina Dashevsky – pno

KAREL VOLNIANSKY: Prelude No. 2 (Lullaby) from 3 Preludes for pno (2001; WP)
Tzlil Berlin – pno

TZVI AVNI: Intermezzo for db (2007; WP)
Michael Klinghoffer – db

EYAL BAHT: She Who Sits in the Gardens for rec & pno (1999)
Drora Bruck – rec, Opher Shelly – pno

MICAHEL WOLPE: Andante Sostenuto from Piano Trio No. 2 (1998)
Tania Beltzer – vln, Ayela Zeidelman – vcl, Mina Dashevsky – pno

DVORA SHREM: Five Romantic Miniatures for pno (2006)
Yael Hacohen – pno

YEHEZKEL BRAUN: Hyperbole for cl (1974; IMI 434)
Kobi Weismal – cl

VYACHESLAV (SLAVA) GANELIN: Suite ‘5 = 4’ for saxophone qrt (2007)
Saxophones of Jerusalem (Daniel Pintus, Reut Livnat, Maayan Smith & Yitzhak Weismal), Gersh Geller – dir

URI BRENNER: Moonstone for jazz band (1996)
Julia feldman – V, Iliya Silzov – b-gui, oleg bogod – pno....

May 10, ‘Hassadna’ Festival of Israeli Contemporary Music, Jerusalem Music Centre....
ISRAEL SHARON: Passacaglia & Allegro for StrO (2007; Hassadna Festival commission; WP)
Hassadna Chamber Orchestra, Michael Geizler – cond

MICHAEL WOLPE: 'Espressivo' from Piano Trio No. 1 (1995)
Tamar Grinstein – vln, Gabriel Beigel – vcl, Elisha Zack Kravitz – pno

JOSEF BARDANASHVILI: Metamorphoses for vcl & pno (1998)
Talia Ardel – vcl, Masha Yulin – pno

YOHANAN KANDLER: Andante for vla & pno (2007; ‘Hassadna’ Festival commission; WP)
Adina Glick – vla, Tatiana Stephanova – pno

ZOHAR SHARON: 'Storm' from 'The Storm Before the Calm' for cl, vcl & pno (2007; ‘Hassadna’ Festival commission; WP)
Kobi Weismal – cl, Talia Ardel – vcl, Masha Yulin – pno

ISRAEL SHARON: 'Allegro' from Sonata for vln & pno (1995)
Yuval Hertz – vln, Anat Paul – pno

NOAM SHERIFF: For Ella for pno (1991; IMI 6915)
Masha Yulin – pno....

May 3, Felicia Blumenthal Music Centre, Tel Aviv....
ALEXANDER URIYA BOSKOVICH

Behold Thou Art Fair, ver for V & pno. Text: Song of Songs (1947)
The Lord is My Shepherd, ver for V & pno. Text: Psalm 23 (1946)
Two Jests for V & pno. Text: Ben-Shlomo Alharizi (1942; IMI 369B)

Bracha Kol – Mez
Sara Tal – pno....

May 20, Budapest....
AHARON HARLAP: Concerto for vla & SO (2006; WP; IMI 7722)

Rivka Golani - vla
Dohnanyi Symphony Orchestra Budafok
Gábor Hollerung - cond....

May 9, Stockholm....
JOSEPH KAMINSKI: Concertino for tpt & SO (1952; IMI 7489)

Philip Draglund - tpt
Stockholm Sinfonietta
Marie Rosenmir - cond....

May 10, Felicja Blumental Music Center, Tel Aviv
May 15, Jerusalem Music Centre....
PAUL BEN-HAIM: Sing, O Barren motet for mixed choir. Text: Iasiah (1957; IMI 7345)
MOSHE RASIUK: In the Sky of the Old City – a Kite, for vocal ensemble and timpani
AHARON HARLAP: Jephtah's Daughter for hn, S, Bar and mixed choir (1981)
GILAD COHEN: By Night on My Bed for choir a-capella. Text: Song of Songs

Choir of The Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance
Stanley Sperber - cond....

May 28, Beer Sheva....
MAX STERN: Prophet or King – A Biblical Episode for soloist, nars, choir and ChE. Text: I Samuel, chs. 8, 11, 12; Psalm 146 (2007; WP)

Avraham Gros – V
Sharon Doek-Malk & Anat Miller – nars
Choral and Instrumental Ensemble of the Ben Gurion University of the Negev
Max Stern – cond....

May 7, Winston-Salem, NC, USA....
ELLA MILCH-SHERIFF
Little Woman for S, vcl & pno. Text: Dalia Ravikovitch (2005; IMIC 03)

My Father’s Diary for S, vcl & pno, after Can Heaven Be Void; text from Baruch Milch’s diary, edited by Shosh Avigal and Ella Milch-Sheriff (2007; WP)

Annette Pashayan – S, Gayle Massari – vcl, Barbara Lister-Sink – pno
....

May 1, 2, Jaffa - Tel Aviv
May 3, Jerusalem Music Center....
ODED ASSAF: ...from the long-forgotten album for ChE (2007; WP)

Israel Contemporary Players
Xu Yi An - cond....

May 3,6,7, Tel Aviv
May 8, Haifa....
RON YEDIDIA: Steps in the Wonderland for SO (1997/2000; IP)
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra
George Pehlivanian - cond....

May 20, Tel Aviv....
DANIEL GALAY: Three Klezmer Tunes
JOACHIM STUTSCHEWSKY: Ancient Dance for vln and StrO
EYAL BATT: Ose Niflaot for actor and singer
Haya Livni - vln
Liat Mordoch - S
Albert Cohen - actor
IChO Strings Ensemble
Yoni Farchi - cond....

May 15, Bet Gabriel, Sea of Galilee
May 16, Jerusalem
May 17, Tel Aviv
May 29, Wroclaw, Poland
June 2, Krakow, Poland....
HAIM PERMONT: Sinfonia for hpd & StrO (2006; WP; IMI 7773)

The Jerusalem Baroque Orchestra
David Shemer - hpd & cond....

May 9, Jerusalem Music Centre
May 12, HaTeiva Studio, Jaffa – Tel Aviv....
ABEL EHRLICH: Trio for bar-sax, vln & vcl (2002)
RUBEN SEROUSSI: 'Strange … isn't it?' for sax, vln & vcl (2007; WP; IMI 7778)
ARIE SHAPIRA: Saxophone Quartet (1996; IMI 7293)
JAN FREIDLIN: Choral Sonata for pno (2002)
LIOR NAVOK: Hidden Reflections for a-sax & pno (1996)
ROBERT MOZES: Elegy and Dance for sax & pno trio (2007; WP)

Chamber Society for Israeli Music (Nitai Zori – vln, Hillel Zori – vcl, Michal Tal – pno), Tel Aviv Saxophone Quartet (Gan Lev – s-sax, Yanir Ritter – a-sax, Jonathan Hazan – t-sax, Ziv Salame – bar-sax)....

May 17, New York....
LIOR NAVOK: "The Old Photo Box" - 20 miniatures for piano (2006; WP)

Luba Poliak, Einav Yarden, Geoffrey Burleson, Pablo Lavandera and Gila Goldstein - pno....

April 2007

Apr 19, Felicia Blumenthal Music Centre, Tel Aviv....
Works by DANIELA COHN-LEVITAS

Prelude for pno (1995)
Bagatelles for pno (2005)
Piano Pieces No. 11 (1995)
Moments for pno (1998)
Sleepless Night for pno (2001)
Andantino for pno (2003)
Unter den Linden – Piano Sonata (2006; WP)
Inventions Nos. 1 & 3 for cl (1998)
Sonata No. 1 for vln & pno (1986)
Sonata No. 2 for vln & pno (2003)

Hagai Yodan – pno & moderator
Mark Shaviner & Herut Israeli – pno
Jonathan Hadas – cl
Haya Livni – vln & Amit Dolberg – pno....

Apr 22, Esslingen
Apr 24, Musik Hochschule, Stuttgart....
WORKS BY ARIE SHAPIRA

Partita for 2 vlns (1974)
Semadar Schidlowsky & Saskia Paulsen – vlns

Quartet Upgraded for str qrt & electronics (2006; WP)
Julia Bassler & Semadar Schidlowsky – vlns, Julia Barthel – vla, Daniel Wenzel – vcl
Georg Wötzer – dir....

24 Apr (Independence Day), Jerusalem Music Centre....
PAUL BEN-HAIM: Yefe Nof – Sephardic romance arr for mixed choir a cappella (1939/1957)
YEHEZKEL BRAUN: My Beloved – song by SARA LEVI-TANAI, arr for mixed choir a cappella (1960; IMI 9008)
MENACHEM WIESENBERG: If I Forger Thee – song by HEYMAN COHEN, arr for mixed choir a cappella (2006; IMI 7757)
GILAD COHEN: By Night on My Bed for mixed choir a cappella
GARY BERTINI: 'Spring' – Madrigal for mixed choir a cappella from 'The Merchant of Venice'

Adi Choir
Ishay Stekler – cond
....

Apr 23 (Independence Day Eve), Henry Crown Hall, Jerusalem....
BETTY OLIVERO: Der Golem – Suite No. 2 for cl & StrO (1998)

Giora Feidman – cl
Jerusalem SO, IBA
Leon Botstein – cond....

Apr 29, Haifa
Apr 30, Tel Aviv....
PAUL BEN-HAIM: Berceuse Sfaradite (1945) for vln & pno

Barak Tal – vln, Yoni Farhi – pno....

April 23, Christ & St. Stephen's Church, New York....
ASHER BEN-YOHANAN: Mosaic for S, ob, cl, bn, tpt, trb, perc(2), vla, vcl & db. Text: e. e. cummings (1971; IMI 315)
BETTY OLIVERO: Bashrav for ChE (2004; IMI 7538)

Elizabeth Farnum - S
The North/South Chamber Orchestra
Max Lifchitz – cond....

Apr 15, Tel Aviv Museum....
OEDOEN PARTOS: In Memoriam for vla & StrO (1947; IMI 6102)
TZVI AVNI: Kaddish for vcl & StrO (1987/1991; IMI 6909)

Yoel Greenberg – vla, Jonathan Gotlibovich – vcl
The Tel Aviv Soloists Ensemble
Barak Tal – cond
....

Apr 9, West Palm Beach, Florida....
AVNER DORMAN: Sonata No. 2 for pno (2001)
Alon Goldstein – pno....

Apr 7, Ein Hashofet
Apr 13, 14, Tel Aviv....
RONEN SHAPIRA: In Memoriam for vln & vla (2006; IP)
Hagit Halaf – vln, Christoph Langheim – vla....

Apr 24 (Independence Day), Haifa....
MARC LAVRY: Valley (Emek) Symphonic poem for SO (1937; IMI 6706)
NAOMI SHEMER: Jerusalem of Gold, arr by Gal Alterovich

Haifa Symphony Orchestra
Noam Sheriff – cond....

Apr 16, University of Judaism, Los Angeles....
TSIPPI FLEISCHER: In the Mountains of Armenia (1998; WP of live-performance version). Text: Hohvanes Thumanian

Tagoui Azroumanian – nar
Heather Millette – cl
The Rainbow Children's Choir
Garineh Avakian – cond

SHULAMIT RAN: O the Chimneys (1969). Text: Nelly Sachs

Ayanna Haviv – S, Martin Glicklich – fl, Heather Millette – cl, Nino Ruzevic – vcl, Svetlana Transky – pno, Lynn Vartan – perc
Neal Stulberg – cond
....

Apr 26,28, Raanana, Israel....
ODED ZEHAVI: Concertino for timp & ChO (2006; WP)
Raanana Symphonette Orchestra
Nir Kabaretti - cond....

Apr 26, 28, 29, Tel Aviv....
SHULAMIT RAN: Vessels of Courage and Hope for SO (1998; IP)
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra
Gustavo Dudamel – cond....

Apr 11, Jerusalem....
BEN-ZION ORGAD: Filigrees No. 4 for cl, bn, hn, vln, vla, vcl & db (1993; IMI 6975)

The New Israeli Ensemble
(Ron Selka - cl, Gad Lederman - bn, Yoel Abadi - hn, Yevgenia Pikovsky - vln, Dmitry Ratush - vla, Kirill Mihanovsky - vcl, Nir Comforty - db)....

March 2007

Mar 23, Felicja Blumental Music Centre, Tel Aviv....
RON WEIDBERG: Variations on a Theme by Mozart for pno duo (1991/1997)

ANDRE HAJDU: 4 Coplas sefardies by Alberto Hemsi, arr for pno duo (2004; IMI 7623)

Miriam Boskovich & Hemda Raz – pno duo....

Mar 25, Rishon LeZion....
MENACHEM WIESENBERG: If I Forget Thee – song by Heyman Cohen arr for mixed choir a cappella. Text: Menachem Mendel Dolitzki (H)* (2006; WP; IMI 7757)

Adi Choir
Yishai Stekler – cond....

Mar 5, The Institute Concert Series, No. 10, Felicia Blumental Music Centre, Tel Aviv....
SONGS BY MOSHE WILENSKY:

12 Songs for V & pno
A Medley of Children's Songs, arr for children's choir & pno by Shimon Cohen

Ayala Zimbler, Dan Dunkelblum, Iris Kretzer-Karlin & Zipi Zarenkin – singers

"Bat Kol" Children's Choir of the Israel Conservatory, Tel Aviv
Dalia Lazar – cond

Shimon Cohen – pno & music director....

Mar 11, ArtDepot Hall, London
Mar 13, Yehudi Menuhin School Hall, Cobbham, UK....
MENACHEM WIESENBERG: Encounters IV – Suita concertante for classical vln, klezmer vln & StrO (2006; WP; IMI 7761)

Dora Schwartzberg – classical vln
Sophie Solomon – klezmer vln
Yehudi Menuhin School Orchestra
Malcolm Singer – cond
....

Mar 19, Radford University, VA, USA....
SARA FEIGIN: Toccata (1972) for pno (IMI 258)

Nitza Kats - pno....

Mar 6, Jerusalem Music Centre....
AMI MAAYANI: Two fantasies in Prelude and Fugue Form (2000)

Ariel Halevy – pno....

Mar 9, Zagreb, Croatia....
PAUL BEN-HAIM: Psalm from the Symphony No 1 for SO (1940; IMI 7353M)

Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra
Nir Kabaretti - cond....

Mar 12, Jerusalem (Voice of Music Etnachta Concert Series)....
YITZHAK YEDID: Nine Images for pno, vln & vcl (2006; WP; IMI 7762)
Nathaniel Vallois – vln, Doo-Min Kim – vcl, Orit Wolf – pno
....

Mar 6, Felicia Blumenthal Music Centre, Tel Aviv....
I WILL WALK IN THE LAND OF THE LIVING – A TRIBUTE TO RACHEL GALINNE

Trio Energico for vln, vcl & pno (2005; IP)
A Song for ob (2005; IP)
I Will Walk in the Land of the Living for S, cl, vln, vcl & pno (2006). Text: Psalms 88, 116, 142
Dybuk for cl (2006; WP)

Eva Ben-Tzvi – S, Orit Orbach – cl, Matthew Peaceman – ob, Musica Nova Consort (Gilad Hildesheim – vln, Raz Cohen – vcl, Allan Sternfield – pno)....

Mar 5, Jerusalem (Voice of Music Etnachta Concert Series)....
RACHEL GALINNE: I Will Walk in the Land of the Living for S, cl, vln, vcl & pno (2006; WP). Text: Psalms 88, 116, 142

Eva Ben-Tzvi – S, Orit Orbach – cl, Gilad Hildesheim – vln, Raz Cohen – vcl, Allan Sternfield – pno
....

Mar 14, Jerusalem Music Centre
Mar 15, Israel Music Conservatory, Tel Aviv....
ISRAEL SHARON: Three Preludes & Fugues for strings (2007; WP)

Ensemble Kaprizma (Yonatan Keren & Cordelia Hagmann – vlns, Gadi Abadi – vla, Ira Givol & Christine Cooper – vcl) Israel Sharon – cond....

Mar 20, Jerusalem Music Centre....
AMIT GILUTZ: Storm's Morrow for solo harp (2006; WP)

Sivan Magen - hp....

Mar 13, Hebrew University, Jerusalem....
RON WEIDBERG: Three Preludes & Fugues (No. 4 in E minor, No. 12 in G-sharp minor, No. 24 in D minor) from Voyage to the End of the Millennium for pno (1999)
Assaf Shelleg – pno....

Mar 22, Jerusalem Music Centre
Mar 28, Spring Festival, Rishon LeZion
Mar 30, Einav Centre, Tel Aviv....
NOAM SHERIFF: Moments in Time… Song cycle for V & ChE. Text: Bat-Sheva Sheriff (2007; WP) – Jerusalem and Tel Aviv only.
EREL PAZ: Arrangements for V & ChE of songs by Hans Eisler and Kurt Weill (2007; WP)

Rachel Frenkel – S (Sheriff), Shirit Lee Weis – S (Paz), Roi Amots – fl
Ensemble Meitar (Jonathan Hadas – cl, Moshe Aharonov – vln, Dan Weinstein – vcl, Amit Dolberg – pno)
Gil Raveh – cond....

Mar 8, Bethesda, Maryland, USA....
PAUL BEN-HAIM: Pastorale Variee for cl & pno (1945; IMI 7337B)
Steven Rosenthal – cl, Immanuela Gruenberg – pno
....

Mar 15, Ein HaHoresh
Mar 17, Givaatayim
Mar 18, Dorot
Mar 20, Tel Aviv
Mar 22, Ein HaShofet
Mar 24, Nahariya
Mar 27, Givat Brenner....
YARON GOTTFRIED: "Swinging Mozart" for jazz trio and orchestra

Yaron Gottfried - pno & cond
Yurai Oron - db
Drums - Eitan Itzkovich -drums
Israel Kibbutz Orchestra....

Mar 25, Chemnitz, Germany....
TZVI AVNI: Bridges for 2 vlns (2004; IMI 7555)

Kolija Lessing, Andreas Nollau - vlns....

Mar 24, Villach, Austria
Mar 27, Wels, Austria
Mar 29, Dornbirn, Austria....
TZVI AVNI: Paths of Time (String Quartet No. 3) – Ver for StrO (2003; IMI 7540A)

Tel Aviv Soloists
Barak Tal – cond....

Mar 28, Kitzingen, Germany....
TZVI AVNI:
Phoenix for vla (2001; IMI 7793)
From My Diary for pno (2001; IMI 7262)
Capriccio for pno (1955/1975; IMI 6142)

Kolja Lessing – pno, vla....

Mar 29,30,31, Nashville, Tennessee....
AVNER DORMAN: Variations Without A Theme for SO (2001)
Nashville Symphony Orchestra
Asher Fisch – cond....

Mar 15, Ein Hahoresh
Mar 17, Giva'atayim
Mar 18, Dorot
Mar 20, Tel Aviv
Mar 22, Ein Hashofet
Mar 24, Nahariya
Mar 27, Giv'at Brenner....
YARON GOTTFRIED: "Swinging Mozart" for jazz trio and ChO (2005)
The Israel Kibbutz Orchestra
Yaron Gottfried - cond and pno
Yurai Oron - db
Eitan Itzkovich - drums....

Mar 28, 29, Jerusalem....
BENJAMIN YUSUPOV: Concerto-Intimo for pno & SO (2006; WP)

Thomas Duis – pno
Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, IBA
Leon Botstein – cond....

Mar 23, 24, Tel Aviv
Mar 25, Jerusalem
Mar 26, Rehovot....
MOSHE RASIUK: Edom Mountains for StrO (1985)
Israel Camerata Jerusalem
Avner Biron – cond....

Mar 28, HaTeiva Studio, Jaffa - Tel Aviv
Mar 31, Tel Aviv Museum....
LIOR NAVOK: Like a Whirling Sand Clock for cl, vcl & pno (2006; WP)

Chen Halevi – cl, Anssi Karttunen – vcl, Ofra Yitzhaki – pno....

Mar 3, Ramat HaSharon
Mar 6, Tel Aviv
Mar 8, Holon....
PAUL BEN-HAIM: Music for Strings for StrO (1956; IMI 7334)

The Israel Stage Orchestra, Holon
Talia Ilan – cond....

Mar 26, Tel Aviv....
ALEX WASSERMAN: Sonata for vla & pno (2002)

Amos Boazson - vla
Arnon Erez - pno....

Mar 4, Washington D.C., USA....
YINAM LEEF: Trio (Canaanite Fantasy No. 5) for cl, vln & pno (2005; IMI 7710)

The Verdehr Trio
(Elsa Ludewig-Verdehr - cl, Walter Verdehr - vln, Sylvia Roederer - pno)....

February 2007

Feb 26, Jerusalem (Voice of Music Etnachta Concert Series)....
ZOHAR EITAN: Excerpts from What’s to be Done for vln (2004)
Nitai Zori – vln
....

Feb 24, Felicia Blumenthal Music Centre, Tel Aviv
April 16, Centre for Music and Dance, Or-Yehuda/Neve Savion
....
Four Israeli Pictures (Editor and Moderator: Yossi Arenheim)

WISAM JUBRAN: Face for fl & str trio (2005/6)
JOSEF BARDANASHVILI: Five Novelettes for hp, fl, cl & str qrt (2006)
JAN FREIDLIN: Music of the Passing Summer for fl, vla & hp (1996)
RON YEDIDIAH: Fantasie Concertante for hp, fl & str qrt (2006)

Musica Nova Consort (Yossi Arenheim – fl, Ishay Lantner – cl, Julia Sverdlov – hp, Janna Gandelman & Michael Kontsevich – vlns, Amit Landau – vla, Anat Engelmayer – vcl)....

Feb 22, Jacbos School of Music, Indiana University, Bloomington, IA....
Sounds of Israel
OFER BEN-AMOTS: Akeda for pno (2000)
BRUNO REINHARDT: Duet for vln & vla (1996)
ATAR ARAD: Sonata for vla (1996; IMI 7031)
JAN RADZYNSKI: Personal Verses for vln & pno (1999)
ANDRE HAJDU: Etudes on Jewish Folk Tunes for vln & cl (2000)
PAUL BEN-HAIM: Song Without Words for vla & pno (1952; IMI 7365)
YEHEZKEL BRAUN: Three Sephardic Romances (1974; IMI 437); Adagio Molto from Three Hassidic Tunes (1974; IMI 438), arr for vln, vla, cl & pno by Justin Sorrell and Yael Manor.

Yael Manor – pno, David Radzynski – vln, Lotem Beider – vla, Gideon Alon – cl....

Feb 2, Blacksburg, VA, USA....
SARA FEIGIN: Toccata for pno (1972; IMI 258)

Nitza Kats - pno....

Feb 13, Beit Shean
Feb 15,Givat Brenner
Feb 17, Givaatayim
Feb 18, Dorot
Feb 20, Nahariya....
BOAZ BEN-MOSHE: Canaanite Symphony for vln & ChO (WP)

Hagai Shaham - vln
Israel Kibbutz Orchestra
Luis Gorelik - cond....

Feb 6, 7, Ville de Québec, Québec, Canada....
TZVI AVNI: Le Monstre a Trio Pattes (The Three Legged Monster) – a musical legend for nar, ChO & pno (1995). Text: Hanna Yaddor-Avni

Richard Lee – nar
Jeux d'Archets Suzuki
Paul Hebert – cond....

Feb 13, Jerusalem
Feb 16, Tel Aviv....
TZVI AVNI: Nocturne with Bees and Fireflies for mandolin, gui & hpd (2002; IMI 7508)

Three Plucked Strings
(Avi Avital – mandolin, Yuval Avital – gui, Yizhar Karshon - hpd)....

Feb 17,18, Berlin....
OEDOEN PARTOS: In Memoriam for vla & StrO (1947; IMI 6102)
PAUL BEN-HAIM: Ma Tovu from Liturgical Cantata for Bar, mixed choir & ChO. Text: Morning Prayer (1946; IMI 7328)

Avri Levitan – vla
Young Orchestra of the Free University Berlin, Workshop-Choir Berlin
Uri Rom – cond....

Feb 22, Jerusalem....
JAN RADZYNSKI: The Song of the Wellspring for T, Mez & SO. Text: Psalms (1997/2006; WP; IMI 7109)

Rosemary Danziger - Mez
JR Fralick - T
Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, IBA
Leon Botstein - cond....

Feb 10, Tel Aviv....
PAUL BEN-HAIM: Quintet for cl & str qrt (1941/65; IMI 7342)
Chen Halevy – cl
Carmel Quartet (Rachel Ringelstein & Lia Raikhlin – vlns, Yoel Greenberg – vla, Tami Waterman – vcl)....

Feb 1,3,4, Rishon LeZion....
HAIM PERMONT: Leaden Sky for Mez, mixed choir & ChO. Text: poems by children in Terezin Ghetto (1985/2006; WP of the ver; IMI 6634)
Edna Prochnik - Mez
The Ichud Choir, Adi Young Israeli Choir
The Israel Symphony Orchestra Rishon LeZion
Dan Ettinger - cond....

Feb 13,17, Herzliya, Israel....
DOV SELTZER: The Gold from the Ashes – rhapsodic poem for Mez, children’s choir & ChO. Text: traditional Sephardic ballades; Kaddish (1992)

Shira Tal - Mez
Li-Ron Choir, Herzliya
Herzliya Chamber Orchestra
Harvey Bordowitz - cond....

Feb 2, Blacksburg, VA, USA....
SARA FEIGIN: Toccata for pno (1972; IMI 258)

Nitza Kats - pno
....

Feb 17, Felicia Blumenthal Music Centre, Tel Aviv
Feb 28, Jerusalem Music Centre....
HAGAR KADIMA: A Dubious Closing Gesture for pno trio (1994)
MARK KOPYTMAN: Cantus II for str trio (1980; IMI 7376)
JOACHIM STUTSCHEWSKY: Mini Duet for vln & vcl (1975; IMI 385)
GIDEON LEWENSOHN: Sarabande Nocturnale for db & MagT (2000)
TZVI AVNI: Mirage for pno trio & db/perc (2004; IMI 7573)

Chamber Society for Israeli Music (Nitai Zori – vln, Hillel Zori – vcl, Michal Tal – pno) with Maia Jacobs – vla, Raffaello Majoni – db....

Feb 16, Dessau, Germany....
BENJAMIN YUSUPOV: Concerto intimo for pno & orch (2006; WP)

Benjamin Yusupov - pno
Anhaltische Philharmonie Dessau
Golo Berg - cond....

Feb 11, San Francisco
Feb 15, Santa Barbara
Feb 26, New York City....
RON YEDIDIA: 2 dances from "Dances of Earth, Wind and Fire" for pno (2003)

Gila Goldstein - pno....

Feb 3, Israel Conservatory Tel Aviv
....
A Tribute to YEHEZKEL BRAUN on his 85th Birthday

“Sabbath the Queen” for children’s choir & pno, from Two Sacred Songs (1984; IMI 6495). Text: Haim Nachman Bialik
From His Strength for children’s choir a cappella (1995; IMI 7104). Text: from Sabbath Hymns

Piano Trio No. 4 (2002)

Love is as Strong as Death for S & pno trio (2006; IP). Text: The Song of Songs

The Words of the Preacher, the Son of David for bar, mixed choir & pno (2006; IP). Text: Ecclesiastes

Bat Kol Choir, Yanina Zitrin – pno, Anat Morahg – cond

Tehila Nini-Goldstein – S
Amber Trio (Lior Kretzer – pno, Uri Dror – vln, Nitzan Laster – vcl)

Peter Simpson – bar, Collegium Tel Aviv, Ruth Zori – pno, Avner Itai – cond....

Feb 22, 23, Tel Aviv....
MOSHE ZORMAN: Rachel Song Cycle (2006; WP). Texts: Rachel Bluwstein
Iris Kretzer Karlin - S
Moshe Zorman - pno....

Feb 13, Jerusalem Music Centre....
PAUL BEN-HAIM: String Quartet (1937; IMI 7351)
Carmel Quartet (Rachel Ringelstein & Lia Raikhlin – vlns, Yoel Greenberg – vla, Tami Waterman – vcl)....

Feb 20, Jerusalem Music Center....
YARON GOTTFRIED: Fatnasia for vln & vcl (2007; WP)

Elina Gurevich – vln, Sofia Falkovich – vcl....

Feb 20, Mar 3, 17, Philadelphia....
SHIMON COHEN: Jerusalem Sketches Rhapsody for SO (1981; IMI 7431)
The Philadelphia Orchestra
Shizuo Kuwahara - cond....

January 2007

Jan 30, St. Paul's United Methodist Church, Chattanooga, Tennessee....
AVNER DORMAN: Sonata No. 2 for pno (2001)
Alon Goldstein – pno....

Jan 23, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan....
YARDENA ALOTIN MEMORIAL CONCERT

YARDENA ALOTIN: Songs of the Stream for V & pno (1954). Text: Lea Goldberg
EITAN AVITSUR: Suite for pno (1979)
EVIATAR GUTMAN: Episode for fl, hp and vla (2006; WP)

Eva Ben-Zvi – S
Zecharia Plavin – pno
Agur Trio (Gitit Boazson – hp, Amos Boazson – vla, Ruth Ron – fl)....

Jan 27, Bochum....
ELLA MILCH-SHERIFF: Can Heaven be Void? for S, nar & SO (2003)
Text: Shosh Avigal, Baruch Milch, Paul Celan, Bat-Sheva Sheriff; ed. Ella Milch-Sheriff & Shosh Avigal

Carola Günther – Mez, Udo Thies – nar
Bochumer Symphoniker
Harry Curtis – cond....

Jan 2, Clairmont Hall, Tel Aviv University....
JOSEF DORFMAN MEMORIAL CONCERT

Procession of Masks, from Verses from Klezmer-Ballade for pno (1991)
Ido Endi-Feldbau – pno

The Birds in the Night, Winter and Solitude from Hommage à Chagall (1987)
Ensemble Meitar (Jonathan Hadas – cl, Dan Weinstein – vcl, Amit Dolberg – pno)

The Sun Hath Looked Upon Me for vla & pno (1978/1988)
Avraham Levental – vla, Yulia Gurevitch – pno

First movement from the Piano Concerto (1981) – ver for two pnos
Michael Bugoslavsky – solo, Mikael Oganesian – accompaniment

Metamorphoses on a Theme by Mozart for 2 vlns (2004; WP)
Zecharia Zorin & Max Zorin – vlns

Enchanted Klezmer for vln (1984)
Max Zorin – vln

Cantus Firmus and Memory from Trio In Memory of Dmitry Shostakovich (1984)
Israel Piano Trio (Menachem Breuer – vln, Hillel Zori – vcl, Tomer Lev – pno)

Kol Nidre for vln (1975)
Zecharia Zorin – vln

....

Jan 14, Braunschweig, Germany....
TZVI AVNI: Das dreibeinige Monster (The Three Legged Monster) – a musical legend for nar, ChO & pno (1995). Text: Hanna Yaddor-Avni

Georg Renz – nar
Staatsorchester Braunschweig
Bartholomew Berzonsky – cond....

Jan 3, Tel Aviv-Jaffa....
HILAT BEN-KENNAZ: Three Songs by Yoav Haik for S & Mandolin (2007; WP)

EREL PAZ: 'L.O.V.E. Song' for S, mandolin, pno & electronics (2006), with video art-work by Ran Kasmi. Text: Leah Goldberg

Efrat Karmoush – S, Avi Avital – mandolin, Shlomi Shem-Tov – pno

....

Jan 25, Columbus, Ohio, USA....
PAUL BEN-HAIM: 5 Pieces, op. 34 for pno (1943)
Phillip Silver – pno....

Jan 24,25, Jerusalem....
JOSEF BARDANASHVILI: Dialogue for vcl & SO (2002; IMI 7501)

Ina Ester Joost-Ben-Sasson - vcl
Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, IBA
George Manahan – cond....

Jan 13, Tel Aviv Museum
Jan 14, Jerusalem Music Centre
....
EREL PAZ: Muting Adolescence for vcl & ChE (2006; WP)

Amit Peled - vcl
Israel Contemporary Players
Ilan Volkov - cond....

Jan 15, 16, 17, 20, Tel Aviv....
MOSHE ZORMAN: Saul – An Amusing Musical Tragedy (2007; WP). Libretto: Kobi Luria

Yuval Berger, Assaf Dgani, Sharon Dvorin, Karin Kaspi, Ella Rosner-Zebba – singers
David Muati – sax, Jonathan Amber – gui, Alon Carmeli – db, Natalia Kushner – pno
Stage Director: Danny Ehrlich
....

Jan 22, 23, Tel Aviv
Jan 27, Jerusalem Music Centre....
MENACHEM WIESENBERG: Octet Movement – Homage to Mendelssohn (1999)
Jerusalem Quartet (Alexander Pavlovsky & Sergei Bresler – vlns, Amihai Grosz – vla, Kyril Zlotnikov – vcl) & Ariel Quartet (Sasha Kazovsky & Gershon Gerchikov – vlns, Sergey Tarashchansky – vla, Amit Even-Tov – vcl)
....

Jan 21, West Shokan, NY, USA....
RON YEDIDIA: 2 dances from "Dances of Earth, Wind and Fire" for pno (2003)

Gila Goldstein - pno....

Jan 14, Jerusalem (Voice of Music Etnachta concert series)....
YEHEZKEL BRAUN: String Trio (2005)

Jerusalem String Trio (Rimma Kaminkovsky – vln, Robert Mozes – vla, Yoram Alperin – vln)....

Jan 22, Jerusalem (Voice of Music Etnachta concert series)....
SHULAMIT RAN: For an Actor – Monologue for cl (1978)
Alexander Fiterstein – cl....

Jan 18, Felicia Blumenthal Music Centre, Tel Aviv
Jan 23, Jerusalem Music Centre....
AVNER DORMAN: Piano Trio No. 3 (2002)
Geffen Trio (Eliran Avni – pno, Anat Malkin – vln, Adiel Shmit – vcl)....

Jan 10, London....
NOAM SHERIFF: Akeda, Passacaglia for SO (1997; UKP)
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Steven Sloane – cond....

Jan 23, Felicia Blumenthal Music Centre, Tel Aviv....
ALEX WASSERMAN: Three Pieces after Paintings by Francisco Goya for pno duo (2006)
EMANUEL VAHL: Suite for two pnos, op. 99 (2006; WP)
ANDRE HAJDU: 4 Coplas sefardies by Alberto Hemsi, arr for 2 pnos (2004; IMI 7623)
YURI POVOLOTSKY: Four Pieces for two pnos (1997-1998)

Hagai Yodan & Herut Israeli – pno duo....

December 2006

Dec 16, Jerusalem
Dec 18, Rehovot
Dec 19, Tel Aviv
Dec 20, Haifa
Dec 23, Herzliya....
OEDOEN PARTOS: Concertino for StrO. Ver of String Quartet No. 1 (1932/1953; IMI 6106A)

Israel Camerata Jerusalem
Avner Biron - cond....

Dec 25, Tel Aviv....
PAUL BEN-HAIM: Concerto for Strings, op. 40 for StrO (1947; IMI 7309)
The Tel Aviv Soloists Ensemble
Tabea Zimmermann (vla) - leader....

Dec 6,7,9, Rishon LeZion....
ORIT WOLF: Light, White and Argaman for SO (2006; WP)
The Israel Symphony Orchestra Rishon LeZion
Arthur Fagen - cond....

Dec 9,10,11,13, Haifa....
ITAI SOBOL: Concerto for pno & SO (2006; WP)
Itai Sobol – pno
Haifa Symphony Orchestra
Noam Sheriff – cond....

Dec 7, Tel Aviv....
GIL SHOHAT: Max and Moritz - opera (2001/2)
Bracha Kol, Merav Barnea, Maria Kabelsky, Karin Shifrin, Sharon Dvorin, Guy Mannheim, Yevgeny Nyegenetz - singers
Mebers of the Israel ChO
Gil Shohat - cond....

Dec 29, Shuni, Israel
Dec 31, Sde Boker
Jan 2, Tel Aviv
Jan 3, Jerusalem....
JOACHIM STUTSCHEWSKY: Hassidic Suite (2 Movs) for vcl & pno (1946; IMI 429)
PAUL BEN-HAIM: Three Songs Without Words for vcl & pno (1952; IMI 7364)

Wolfram Koessel - vcl
Vered Reznik - pno....

Dec 30, Tel Aviv....
MATAN DANIEL PORAT: Interplays for hp, fl, cl, perc(2) & str qrt (2006; WP)
JOSEF BARDANASHVILI: Five Novelettes for hp, fl, cl & str qrt (2006; WP)

The Gropius Ensemble (Gitit Boazson – hp, Gili Schwartzman – fl, Tibi Cziger – cl, Sharon Cohen & Sivan Zelikoff – vlns, Itamar Ringel – vla, Dan Weinstein – vcl, Assaf Adar & Omri Rachum-Tweig – perc)
Daniel Cohen – cond....

Dec 31, Tel Aviv
Jan 1, Jerusalem (Voice of Music Etnachta concert series)....
A TRIBUTE TO TZVI AVNI
TZVI AVNI: Two Nocturnes and Intermezzo for S, cl & pno. Text: Christine Hasenklever-Zbeida (1999-2000; IMI 7250A)
MORDECAI SETER: Trio for cl, vcl & pno (1973; IMI 360)
TZVI AVNI: Pastoral and Dance for cl & pno (1957/2003; IP of revised version; IMI 7528)
ELLA MILCH-SHERIFF: Little Woman for S, vcl & pno. Text: Dalia Rabikovitch (2005; IMIC 03)
TZVI AVNI: Mirage for pno trio & db/perc (2004; IMI 7573)

Ensemble Meitar (Yael Levite – S, Moshe Aharonov – vln, Dan Weinstein – vcl, Ron Merhavi – db, Jonathan Hadas – cl, Amit Dolberg – pno)....

Dec 12, Buenos Aires....
LIOR NAVOK: Remembrances of Jerusalem for gui (1995)
Carlos Eduardo Bojarski – gui....

Dec 2, Boston
Dec 5, New York....
ARIE SHAPIRA: Violin 2004 for vln & electronics
Jonathan Chen – vln....

Dec 17, New York....
AVNER DORMAN: Piano Trio (2002)
Geffen Trio (Eliran Avni – pno, Anat Malkin – vln, Adiel Shmit – vcl)....

Dec 28, Tel Aviv....
HAIM ALEXANDER: Six Israeli Dances for pno 4-hands (1951; IMI 7291)

Yuval Admony, Tami Kanazawa - pno duo....

Dec 16, Tel Aviv....
SERGIU NATRA: Sonatina for hp (1965; IMI 59)

Gitit Boazson - hp....

Dec 23, Ein Hashofet
Dec 25, Jerusalem (Voice of Music Etnachta concert series)
Dec 28, Ra'anana, Israel....
AVNER DORMAN: Sonata No. 2 for pno (2001)

Alon Goldstein - pno....

Dec 7, Or Yehuda
Dec 9, Tel Aviv....
YEHEZKEL BRAUN: Wherefrom Comes Darkness for voice & cl (2001; IMI 7420). Text: Danny Cohen
GILAD HOCHMAN: Brief Memories for str trio (2004)
EREL PAZ: Movement for str qrt (1996)
ODED ASSAF: Gamma: Another View for str trio (2006; WP)
GILAD HOCHMAN: Slightly Disturbed – monodrama for cl, vln & vcl (2006; IMI 7753)

Ensemble Musica Nova (Shira Tal – Mez, Ilya Schwartz – cl, Jana Gandelman and Michael Konsievitch – vlns, Amit Landau – vla, Konstantin Sokolov – vcl)....

Dec 11, Jerusalem (Voice of Music Etnachta concert series)
Dec 12, Tel Aviv....
SIVAN COHEN-ELIAS: Riba for a-sax & e-gui (2006; WP)
YUVAL SHAKED: 40malige Gegenwart und Rückmeldung for sax, perc(1) & pno (2006; WP)

Ensemble Nikel (Yaron Deutsch – e-gui, Benjamin Hochman – pno, Gan Lev – sax, Amir Lavy – perc)....

Dec 14, Sounds in the Desert Festival, Sde-Boker....
ORA BAT-HAIM: Overture, arr for cl & StrO by Sergei Abir
MOSHE WILENSKY: Anemones, arr for cl & StrO by Sergei Abir
ORA BAT-HAIM: By myself, arr for cl & StrO by Sergei Abir
GIL ALDEMA: In Chassidic Spirit – Suite, arr for cl & StrO by Sergei Abir

Giora Feidman – cl
Jerusalem Strings Orchestra, Ilan Shul – cond....

Dec 15, Sounds in the Desert Festival, Sde-Boker....
AVIYA KOPELMAN: Piano Trio No. 1 (2004)
ODED ZEHAVI: Farewell for pno trio (2006)
PAUL BEN-HAIM: Variations on a Hebrew Melody for pno trio (1939; IMI 7373)

Jerusalem Piano Trio (Yaron Rosenthal – pno, Roi Shiloah – vln, Ariel Tushinsky – vcl)....

Dec 15, Sounds in the Desert Festival, Sde-Boker....
TSIPPI FLEISCHER: Resuscitation for vcl (1984; IMI 6569)
MENACHEM WIESENBERG: Monodialogue, arr for vcl (1999/2005)
NOAM SHERIFF: Confession for vcl (1966; IMI 94)
PAUL BEN-HAIM: Music for vcl (1977)
GIL SHOHAT: Anekdotos IV: Hora for vcl (2000)

Hillel Zori – vcl....

Dec 18, Jerusalem (Voice of Music Etnachta concert series)....
JOSEF BARDANASHVILI: Metamorphoses No. 2 for vla & pno (1998)
OEDOEN PARTOS: A Legend for vla, perc(1) & pno (1960; IMI 14)

Irit Livne – vla, Amir Livne – perc, Marina Sorokin – pno....

Dec 26, Tel Aviv....
ALEX WASSERMAN: Three Pieces after Paintings by Francisco Goya for pno duo (2006; WP)
Hagai Yodan & Herut Israeli – pno duo....

Dec 28, Holon
Dec 29, Tel Aviv
Jan 11, Pardes-Hanna....
TZVI AVNI: Prayer for StrO (1961/1969; IMI 172)
SARAH FEIGIN: Reflections, arr for vla & StrO by Aryeh Bar-Droma (1999)

Yoram Meyouhas – vla
The Israel Stage Orchestra, Holon
Doron Salomon – cond....

Dec 14, Sounds in the Desert Festival, Sde-Boker....
GIDEON LEWENSOHN: Viola in my Life for vla and ChO (2006; WP)
SHAUL BOUSTAN: Kaddish for ChO (2006; WP)
MICHAEL WOLPE: Kaprizma 5 for cl and ChO (2006; WP)

Gilad Karni - vla, Ilan Shul - cl
The Israel Sinfonietta Beer Sheva
Doron Salomon – cond....

Dec 15, Sounds in the Desert Festival, Sde-Boker....
BEN-ZION ORGAD: Continuous Present for ChO (2002; WP; IMI 7597)

Raanana Symphonette Orchestra
Michael Wolpe - cond....

Dec 12, Jerusalem Music Centre....
NADAV COHEN: One More Fantasy for fl and pno (WP)

Naama Neuman - fl
Ron Trachtman - pno....

November 2006

Nov 14, Jerusalem Music Centre....
MARK KOPYTMAN: Triptych for Gregory for pno (2000; IMI 7512)

Assaf Kleinman - pno....

Nov 23, Tel Aviv
Nov 28, Jerusalem Music Centre....
AMI MAAYANI: Sonata for solo violin

Sivann Zelikoff - vln....

Nov 26, Milano....
MARC LAVRY: Four Pieces, Op. 236, for vln & pno
OEDOEN PARTOS: In Memoriam for vla & pno (1947; IMI 6102B)
ELLA MILCH-SHERIFF: Duo for vln & vla (1976; IMI 6500)
PAUL BEN-HAIM: Three Songs Without Words for vln & pno (1952; IMI 7366)
ALEXANDER URIYAH BOSKOVICH: Psalm for vln & pno (1942; IMI 497)
HANOCH JACOBY: King David's Lyre for vla & pno (1948; IMI 6667)
RONEN SHAPIRA: In Memoriam for vln & vla (2006; WP)
MARC LAVRY: Three Jewish Dances for vln & pno (1945; IMI 6762B)

Hagit Halaf – vln, Christoph Langheim – vla, Andrea Gottfried – pno....

Nov 2, New York....
AVNER DORMAN: Sonata for vln & pno (2004)
Arnaud Sussmann – vln, Inon Barnatan – pno....

Nov 12,13,14,17,18, Tel Aviv....
JOSEF BARDANASHVILI: Bameh Madlikin (With What do we Light) for SO (2006; WP)
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra
Zubin Mehta - cond....

Nov 2, Jerusalem....
YINAM LEEF: Hallel for vcl solo, 2 hns & StrO (2002; IMI 7506)
Oleg Stolpner - vcl
Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra
Leon Botstein - cond....

Nov 11,12,13, Haifa
Nov 26, Kiriyat Haim....
TSIPPI FLEISCHER: A Girl Named Limonad, Poem for ChO (1977; IMI 6269)
Haifa Symphony Orchestra
Avi Ostrovsky – cond....

Nov 6, Tel Aviv....
GILAD HOCHMAN: A Voice in the Wilderness for ChO (2006; WP)
The Tel Aviv Soloists Ensemble
Barak Tal - cond....

Nov 5, Rehovot
Nov 6, Jerusalem
Nov 7, Tel Aviv....
MORDECAI SETER: Ricercar for vln, vla, vcl & StrO (1956; IMI 20)
Erato Trio
(Natasha Sher - vln, Yael Patish - vla, Anat Engelmayer - vcl)
Israel Camerata Jerusalem
Avner Biron - cond....

Nov 8,9,10, Tel Aviv....
ARIYE BAR-DROMA: Concert for bandoneon and ChO (WP)
Raul Jaurena - bandoneon
Israel Chamber Orchestra
Diego Masson - cond....

Nov 19, Stuttgart, Germany....
JOSEF TAL: Concerto for vcl & StrO (1961; IMI 7)
HAIM ALEXANDER: Three Non-European Folksongs for vln and StrO (2005; WP)

Francis Gouton - vcl
Kolja Lessing - vln
Stuttgarter Kammerorchester
Radoslav Szulc - cond....

Nov 1, Tempus Fugit - Int'l Biennal Festival fot New Music, Tel Aviv....
AYAL ADLER: Reminiscence for vln & pno (2005; IMI 7630)
RUBEN SEROUSSI: Jazz (A propos de Matisse) for vln, vcl & pno (1992; IMI 6992)
JOSEF DORFMAN: Five Pictures After Chagall for cl, vcl & pno

Ensemble Meitar (Jonathan Hadas - cl, Moshe Aharonov - vln, Matan Gilshinsky - vla, Dan Weinstein - vcl, Amit Dolberg - pno)....

Nov 4, Tel Aviv....
JOSEF BARDANASHVILI: Dance macabre from String Quartet No.1

Israel Contemporary String Quartet
(Hadas Fabrikant & Tali Goldberg – vlns, Amelia Hollander – vla, Hilla Epstein – vcl)....

Nov 17,18,19, San Diego, CA....
YOAV TALMI: Elegy (Dachau Reflections) for accordion, timp & StrO (1997; IMI 7132)

San Diego Symphony Orchestra
Yoav Talmi - cond
....

Nov 8, Seattle, USA....
BETTY OLIVERO: Shtiler, Shtiler, Song by Alexander Wilkowiski-Tamir, arr for mixed choir & basset horn
Text: Shmarya Kaczerginski (1995; IMI 7081)
BETTY OLIVERO: Mode Ani (I Render Thanks) by Michel Gelbary, arr for V, mixed choir, cl, b-cl & hp
Text: M. Scheid (1995; IMI 7080)
AHARON HARLAP: Letters Weeping in Fire (2003) Song cycle for V & pno. Text: Ya'acov Barzilai (2003; IMI 7531A)
BETTY OLIVERO: Zeks Yiddishe Lider un Tantz from The Golem (1997) for cl and str qrt

Morgan Smith - Bar, David Klein - nar, Laura DeLuca - cl, Mikhail Shmidt, Leonid Keylin - vlns, Susan Assadi - vla, Mara Finkelstein - vcl, Valerie Muzzolini - hp, Mina Miller - pno

Northwest Boychoir, Joseph Crnko - cond....

Nov 2, Tempus Fugit - Int'l Biennal Festival fot New Music, Tel Aviv....
URI BRENNER: String Quartet (2006; WP)

Aviv Quartet (Sergey Ostrovsky & Evgenia Epshtein – vlns, Shuli Waterman – vla, Rachel Mercer – vcl)....

Nov 2, 2006, Tel Aviv Museum (Tempus Fugit Contemporary Music Biennale)
....
ELECTRONICS+ VIDEO: Young Israeli Artists

YAFIT REUVENI: Shir Moledet [Song for the Homeland], with video artwork by Itai Nadav
NADAV GERBER: Reflections, with video artwork by Ido Cohen Aloro
AMIR GAFNER: Tapes for the Poor Man’s Ewe Lamb, for six tapes
SHAHAR FLEISCHER: Technocalipa
GUY BARASH: All is Kosher
GAL TUSHIA: 1948: Production Line for video and electronic soundtrack

RO’I YARKONI & Ensemble Panic: Nighthawks (to texts by Keren Gut-Alkalai) for laptop, electronics, tpt, vla, accordion and gui
Ensemble Panic (Yael Kraus – V, Ro’i Yarkoni – pno & laptop computer, Ishay Zomer – gui, Dirk Konesh – tpt, Boris Martsinovsky – accordion, Galia Hai – vla);

Music by the Dervish Dervish band (Dervish Dervish – composer, ud & vln; Adham Dervish – b-gui, db; Rana Khouri – V; Rimon Dau – composer & keyboards)....

Nov 2, 2006, Tel Aviv Museum (Tempus Fugit Contemporary Music Biennale)....
CHEN WAGNER: Circadian Rhythms for two female vocalists & Mdira (2006). Text: the composer
MENACHEM ZUR & ANAT PICK: The Composer’s Shoes (2003) for female vocalist, synchronized with Menachem Zur’s Chants for MagT (1975). Text: Anat Pick
SIVAN COHEN-ELIAS: Table, Wine & Shtkde for two female vocalists (2006). Quasi-text by the composer
TSIPPI FLEISCHER: Two movements from Saga Portrait for female vocalist & MagT. Text: Dan Pagis
EITAN STEINBERG: Movement from Eifo Ta’inu, Toda Raba for vocalist and small music instruments. Text: Dan Pagis
EITAN STEINBERG: somewhere i have never traveled for two vocalists (2006). Text: E. E. Cummings
ANAT PICK: TongueTrum 2. Quasi-text by the composer
ANAT PICK & ETTI BEN-ZAKEN: Laila Rey – Du-improvisation for two female vocalists (2005). Quasi-text by the composers
ANAT PICK & ETTI BEN-ZAKEN: Grandma Esther for two female vocalists (2005). Text by the composers (based on their grandmothers)

Anat Pick & Etti Ben-Zaken – vocalists & small instruments....

Nov 7, Oxford, MS, USA
Nov 20, OpusFest Int. Piano Festival, Manila, Philippines....
PAUL BEN-HAIM: 5 Pieces, op. 34 for pno (1943)

Gila Goldstein - pno....

October 2006

Oct 29, Metropolitan Museum, New York....
MENACHEM WIESENBERG: Metamorphosis for pno (2006; WP; IMI 7752)
Benjamin Hochman – pno....

Oct 28, Reston Community Center, VA, USA....
ELLA MILCH-SHERIFF: Songs from the Edge (String Quartet No. 1) for Mez & str qrt (2006; IMI 7721). Text: Annette Pashayan

Janine Hawley – Mez
Audubon Quartet (Doris Lederer & Akemi Takayama – vlns, Ellen Jewett – vla, Clyde Shaw – vcl)....

Oct 25,26,28, Raanana, Israel....
YOM TOV MESHULAM: Paraphrase on an Arabic Song for ChO (2006; WP)

Raanana Symphonette Orchestra
Nir Kabaretti - cond....

Oct 17,18, Tel Aviv....
YEHEZKEL RAZ: Paraphrase on "Bach" for pno, computer & ChO (WP)
AVNER DORMAN: Udacrep Akubrad [anagram of Darbuka PercaDu] for 2 mars & ChO
GIL SHOHAT: Finale for Schubert's "Unfinished" Symphony

Duo PercaDu (Tomer Yariv, Adi Morag)
Israel Chamber Orchestra
Mats Liljefors - cond....

Oct 18,19, Jerusalem....
AVNER DORMAN: Violin Concerto (WP)
Ittai Shapira – vln
Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, IBA
Gisele Ben-Dor – cond....

Oct 8, Muenchen....
NOAM SHERIFF: Confession for vcl (1966; IMI 94)
Isolde Hayer - vcl....

Oct 23, The Institute Concert Series, No. 9, Felicia Blumental Music Centre, Tel Aviv....
SELECTION OF IMI LAST YEAR PUBLICATIONS

MORDECAI SETER: Presence for pno (1986; IMI 6814)
YINAM LEEF: Trio (Canaanite Fantasy No. 5) for cl, vln & pno (2005; IMI 7710)
LEON SCHIDLOWSKY: Two Songs for S, cl, bn, pno, vln & vcl. Text: Dylan Thomas (2005; WP; IMI 7634)
ABEL EHRLICH: Strife for vln (1962; IMI 484)
JOSEF TAL: Three Songs for S & pno. Text: Rachel Bluwstein (1955; IMI 7723)
GILAD HOCHMAN: Slightly Disturbed monodrama for cl, vln & vcl (2006; WP; IMI 7753)

Ensemble Meitar (Tehila Nini-Goldstein – S, Moshe Aharonov – vln, Dan Weinstein – vcl, Jonathan Hadas – cl, Nadav Cohen – bn, Amit Dolberg – pno), Gil Raveh – cond (guest)....

Oct 22, Palazzo Reale, Milano....
MENACHEM WIESENBERG: Overture for Strings: Hommage to Mendelssohn (2001)
ARTUR GELBRUN: Four Pieces for StrO (1963; IMI 145)
MARK KOPYTMAN: Kaddish for vcl & StrO (1981; IMI 7388)
NOAM WIESENBERG: Six Israeli songs, arr for S & StrO

Hila Fachima – S, Linor Katz – vcl
IDF Orchestra, Zvi Carmeli – cond....

Oct 17, Jerusalem Music Centre....
ANDRE HAJDU: Conversation with Domenico
GILAD HOCHMAN: Restricted Military Zone for perc (WP)

DuArt (Omri Rachum-Twaig, Assaf Adar - perc)....

Oct 18, Tel Aviv....
RON WEIDBERG: Prelude and Fugue No. 16 from Voyage to the End of the Millennium (1999)
Zecharia Plavin – pno....

Oct 18, Jerusalem Music Centre
Oct 21, Felicia Blumenthal Music Centre, Tel Aviv....
ANDRE HAJDU: Instants suspendus, 12 preludes for vcl (1987/1990)
YEHUDA ENGEL: In Memoriam – Elegy for vln & vla (1978) [Tel Aviv only]
HADAS GOLDSCHMIDT-HALFON: Winds from the east for pno trio (2002)
MENACHEM AVIDOM: Triptyque for vln (1963)
GILAD HOCHMAN: Brief memories for string trio (2004) [Jerusalem only]
MOSHE ZORMAN: Triangles for pno trio (1992)

Chamber Society for Israeli Music (Nitai Zori – vln, Hillel Zori – vcl, Michal Tal – pno) with Matan Gilishansky – vla....

Oct 25, Jerusalem Music Centre....
LEON SCHIDLOWSKY: Two Songs for S, cl, bn, pno, vln & vcl. Text: Dylan Thomas (2005; IMI 7634)
GILAD HOCHMAN: Slightly Disturbed – monodrama for cl, vln & vcl (2006; IMI 7753)
RUBEN SEROUSSI: Jazz (A propos de Matisse) for pno trio (1992; IMI 6992)

Ensemble Meitar (Jonathan Hadas – cl, Moshe Aharonov – vln, Dan Weinstein – vcl, Amit dolberg – pno), Gil Raveh – cond (guest)....

Oct 28, Salone del Ghetto Ebraico, Chieri, Italy....
LEON SCHIDLOWSKY: Duo for fl & hp (2001; IMI 7283)

Duo Flageolet (Sara Clanzig – flute, Emanuela Battigelli – hp)....

Oct 30, Jerusalem (Voice of Music Etnachta concert series)....
HAIM ALEXANDER: Improvisations on a Persian Song for hpd (1974; IMI 6006)
LIOR NAVOK: Arabesque for rec, vcl & hpd (2006)
DINA SMORGONSKY: Trio in Baroque Style for rec, vcl & hpd (2006)
YEHEZKEL BRAUN: Trio for rec, vcl & hpd (2006)
BENJAMIN BAR-AM: Petite Suite for rec & hpd (1967; IMI 7760)
URI BRENNER: 7-11 and Much Later for hpd (2006; WP)

Tel Aviv Baroque Trio (Drora Bruck – rec, Marina Minkin – hpd, Orit Messer – vcl)....

September 2006

Sep 16, Berlin-Kreuzberg....
A TRIBUTE TO LEON SCHIDLOWSKY ON HIS 75TH BIRTHDAY
Actions for pno (1972)
Seven Nocturnes for vln & pno (1998; IMI 7162)
Toccata for perc (1983; WP)
Arabesque for Baroque flute (1991; IMI 6912)
Am Grab Kafka's for female singer playing crotales. Text: Franz Kafka (1994; IMI 7009)
Coming Back to Life - Tango for vln & pno (2003; IMI 7545)
Lied from Missa sine nomine for narr & org (1977; IMI 7163)
3 Love-songs for S & pno. Text: Georg Trakl (1952)
Black Island (Isla Negra) for fl (1959; IMI 478)
Christus in Holocaust for org (2001; IMI 7284)
Prayer for vln (2002; IMI 7451)
Chanson for voice & tom-tom (1976; IMI 6774)
Toccata for pno & perc (2005; WP; IMI 7631)

Ingo Schulz - pno, org, Martin Schneuing - pno, Semadar Schidlowsky - vln, Rachel Schidlowsky - pno, Hjórleifur Jónsson & Bernd Vogel - perc, Andrea Welte - fl, Uta Buchheister - S, Gunter Kennel - org, Karl-Heinz Barthelmeus - narr....

Sep 17, Berlin-Kreuzburg....
A TRIBUTE TO LEON SCHIDLOWSKY ON HIS 75TH BIRTHDAY
"Deutschland, ein Wintermaerchen" for narr, S, mixed choir, pno & perc (1979; WP)

Karl-Heinz Barthelmeus - narr, Uta Buchheister - S, Bernd Vogel & Hjórleifur Jónsson - perc, Rachel Schidlowsky - pno
Ölberg-Chor
Ingo Schulz - cond....

Sep 27, Jerusalem, The Israeli Music Celebration....
Five workshops:

1/ “We have a Herd in the Field”: Children songs and other works by DANIEL SAMBURSKY, arranged and performed by Uri Bitan - keyboard, Tal Feder - b-gui and Amit Lorber - perc

2/ With the composer ITZHAK YEDID about his Trio for ud, db & pno (2005)
Itzhak Yedid – pno, Michael Maroon – ud, Ora Boazson-Horev – db

3/ With the cellist Hillel Zori
PAUL BEN-HAIM: Music for vcl (1977)
NOAM SHERIFF: Confession for vcl (1966; IMI 94)
MENACHEM WIESENBERG: Monodialogue, ver for vcl (1999)
GIL SHOHAT: Anekdotos IV: Hora for vcl (2000)

4/ With the composer and ud player YAIR DALAL
YAIR DALAL: Najmat el Shama (1990)
YAIR DALAL: Al Ol (1990)
YAIR DALAL: Acco Malca (1988)
YAIR DALAL: Perfume Road (1998)
SALAH AL-KUWAITI: Samai Lami (1940)
Yair Dalal – ud & vln, Erez Monk – perc

5/ With the composer ELLA MILCH-SHERIFF about her Songs from the Edge (String Quartet No. 1) for Mez & str qrt (2006; IP; IMI 7721) Text: Annette G. Pashayan
Karin Shifrin – Mez
Israel Contemporary String Quartet (Hadas Fabrikant & Tali Goldberg – vlns, Amelia Hollander – vla, Hilla Epstein – vcl)....

Sep 27, Jerusalem, The Israeli Music Celebration....
ANEMONES WILL EVER FLOURISH

19 songs by MOSHE WILENSKY, versions for V & ChO edited by Michael Wolpe (2006; IMI 7729-7747)

Yonit Shaked-Golan, Ofer Kalaf, Mauren Nehedar – singers
The Israel Sinfonietta Beer Sheva
Doron Salomon – cond....

Sep 27, Jerusalem, The Israeli Music Celebration....
ISRAELI CONCERTO CELEBRATION

BEN-ZION ORGAD: First Individuations for cl & ChO (1981/1984; IMI 6328)
HAIM ALEXANDER: Concerto for pno & ChO (1982; IMI 6387)
MENACHEM ZUR: Concerto for pno duo & StrO (1997; WP)
PAUL BEN-HAIM: Concerto for vln & ChO (1960; IMI 7306)

Orit Orbach – cl, Allan Sternfield – pno, Tami Kanazawa & Yuval Admoni – pno duo, Sivan Zelikoff – vln
Raanana Symphonette Orchestra, Omer Welber – cond....

Sep 27, Jerusalem, The Israeli Music Celebration....
Five workshops:

1/ SOUND-TEXT with vocalists Anat Pick and Etti Ben-Zaken
ANAT PICK: Laila Rey for two voices (2005)
ANAT PICK: Teeth for two voices (2005) Text by Roni Somek
ANAT PICK & ETTI BEN-ZAKEN: Esther for two voices (2005)
SIVAN COHEN-ELIAS: Table, Wine & Shtekede for two voices (2006)
EITAN STEINBERG: 'Somewhere i have never traveled' for two voices (2006) Text: E. E. cummings
NOA BLASS: Lamentations, and Mourning, and Woe (2006) Text: Ezekiel

2/ with the percussionist Ziv Eitan
RONEN HOFMAN & ZIV EITAN: The Good People for vcl & perc (2000)
YOHED NIR: Improvisation for vcl & electronics (2006)
GIL SHOHAT: Perpetuum mobile for marimba solo (Anecdote no. 16 from the Anecdotes series; 2003)
RONEN SHAPIRA & ZIV EITAN: Digital Arabic Marimba for vcl & perc (2005)
ZACH DORI & ZIV EITAN: On the Way to Mars for vcl & perc (1997-1998)
Ziv Eitan – perc, Yohed Nir – vcl

3/ with the composer GIL SHOHAT about his Clarinet Quintet (2005)
Yishai Lantner - cl, Haya Livni, Pavel Levin - vlns, Yoram Meyouchas - vla, Marina Katz - vcl;

4/ with the composer AVIYA KOPELMAN about her new song cycle Songs of Love and Distress for V & str qrt (2006)
Merav Ben-David - V, Gilad Hildesheim, Daniel Bard - vln, Amir van der Haal - vla, Jonathan Gotlibovich - vcl;

5/ with the composer ODED ZEHAVI about his Farewell for pno trio (2005)
Jerusalem Piano Trio (Yaron Rosenthal – pno, Roi Shiloah – vln, Ariel Tushinsky – vcl....

Sep 4, Tel Aviv
Sep 15, International Recorder Festival, Montreal
Sep 18, Harvard Business School, Cambridge, MA, USA....
HAIM ALEXANDER: Improvisations on a Persian Song for hpd (1974; IMI 6006)
LIOR NAVOK: Arabesque for rec, vcl & hpd (2006; WP)
DINA SMORGONSKY: Trio in Baroque Style for rec, vcl & hpd (2006; WP)
YEHEZKEL BRAUN: Trio for rec, vcl & hpd (2006; WP)

Tel Aviv Baroque Trio (Drora Bruck – rec, Marina Minkin – hpd, Orit Messer – vcl)....

Sep 6, 2006, Amsterdam, International Gaudeamus Music Week....
DGANIT ELYAKIM: Lentils for 2 voices, perc(2) & pno (2005/2006)
Ayelet Harpaz & Dganit Elyakim – Vs, Clare Edwardes – perc, Nora Mulder – pno....

Sep 10, 2006, Amsterdam, International Gaudeamus Music Week....
SAMIR ODEH TAMIMI: Rójagdad for vocal ensemble (2006; WP)
Dutch Vocal Laboratory....

Sep 14,16,18, Rishon LeZion
Sep 17, Tel Aviv....
SARAH FEIGIN: Tzunami for SO (2006; WP; IMI 7718)
The Israel Symphony Orchestra Rishon LeZion
Dan Ettinger – cond....

Sep 18,19,20,21, Tel Aviv....
YEHEZKEL BRAUN: Serenade II for ChO (1997; IMI 7122)
Israel Chamber Orchestra
Gil Shohat – cond....

Sep 28, Jerusalem, The Israeli Music Celebration....
MORDECAI SETER: Chamber Music 1970
1. Intimo for fl & pno (IMI 169)
2. Monodrama for cl & pno (IMI 178)
3. Epigrams for fl & vcl (IMI 179)
4. Autumn for Mez, cl & pno (IMI 183)
5. Requiem for ob & pno (IMI 194)
6. Quartet for fl, cl, vcl & pno (IMI 214)

Bracha Kol – Mez, Uri Shneor – fl, Roni Gal-Ed – ob, Gitit Boazson – hp & Ensemble Meitar (Jonathan Hadas – cl, Dan Weinstein – vcl, Amit Dolberg – pno....

Sep 28, Jerusalem, The Israeli Music Celebration....
OEDOEN PARTOS: Ein Gev – Symphonic fantasy for SO (1952; IMI 6104)
ALEXANDER URIYAH BOSKOVICH: Concerto for vln & SO (1942/1949; edited by Michael Wolpe; IMI 7615)
ERICH WALTER STERNBERG: The Twelve Tribes of Israel – Theme and variations for SO (1941; IMI 160)

Vera Vaidman – vln
Jerusalem, SO, IBA
Mendi Rodan – cond....

Sep 28, Jerusalem, The Israeli Music Celebration....
“ALL IS GOLD” – works for choir and recorders

MORDECAI SETER: Who Can Find a Virtuous Woman? from Festive Songs (1943) for mixed choir a cappella. Text: Proverbs
YEHEZKEL BRAUN: Magen Avot [Shield of our fathers] – trad melody, notated by Yehuda Sharrett, arr for mixed choir a cappella. Text: trad
YEHEZKEL BRAUN: And Cain Fled for male voices (1973) Text: Ya’acov Shabtai
YEHEZKEL BRAUN: Hallelujah from Three Songs of Praise for mixed choir a cappella(1979). Text: Psalm 113
NAOMI SHEMER: Peirot Chamishah Asar (Snow on my Town) arr for mixed choir by GIL ALDEMA
NAOMI SHEMER: Kineret (sham harei golan -There are the Hills of Golan) arr for recorder trio by HAIM ALEXANDER
MATI KASPI: Noah, arr for mixed choir a cappella by ALEXANDER KANTSBERG. Text: Yoram Tahar-Lev
ACHINOAM NINI: Uri, arr for children’s choir a cappella by ALEXANDER KANTSBERG. Text: Rachel Bluwstein
GERSHON PRENSKY: Girl with Braids, arr for children’s choir a cappella by ZVI SHERF
YONNI RECHTER: What Do the Does Do?, arr for recorder trio by ALON SHAV
ALEXANDER ARGOV: All is Gold, arr for children’s choir by PNINA INBAR. Text: Haim Hefer
YEHEZKEL BRAUN: Two songs: Whither is thy beloved gone? (by EMANUEL AMIRAN) & How Beautiful (trad), arr for children’s choir & two recs. Texts: Songs of Songs, Isaiah
TZVI SHERF: Safri Tamah – Yemenite folk tune, arr for children’s choir. Text: Seadyah Ben-Amram
ALON SHAV: The Birds for children’s choir, mixed choir, 3 recs & pno (2006; WP) Text: Pinchas Sadeh

Ariel Recorder Trio (Drora Bruck, Amit Gruber & Alon Shav)
Marina Minkin & Yenina Tsitrin – pno
Bat Kol Children’s Choir
Maayan Choir
Anat Morahg – cond....

Sep 28, Jerusalem, The Israeli Music Celebration....
CHILDREN'S CHOIRS' MARATHON

ODED ZEHAVI: My Little Kid-Goat. Text: Haim Nachman Bialik
YEHEZKEL BRAUN: Queen Sabbath for children’s choir & pno (1984; IMI 6495/ii) Text: Haim Nachman Bialik
AHARON HARLAP: The Little Flower Seller. Text: Natan Yonatan
YONI RECHTER: A Jewish Autumn, arr by Achva Katsin & Noa Harran. Text: Avraham Halfi
ALEXANDER ARGOV: Balconies; Water Heater and Antenna, arr MOSHE RASIUK
Texts: O. Hillel

Ankor Choir, Dafna Ben-Yohanan – cond

MENACHEM WIESENBERG: To Every Thing There is a Season – Motet for 3-part children’s choir (1988; IMI 6860) Text: Ecclesiastes
SARA SHOHAM: They shall Study War No more (based on a melody by Ezra Gabai) Text: Isaiah, Micah
MORDECAI ZEIRA, arr MENACHEM WIESENBERG: Nights. Text: Yaacov Orland
ANDRE HAJDU: Four Songs Without Words (1993; IMI 6961)
EMANUEL ZAMIR, arr SARA SHOHAM: At the Village Edge

Li-Ron Choir, Ronit Shapira – cond

HAIM PERMONT: He that will fight and follow. Text: Isaiah, Mirik Snir
ELLA MILCH-SHERIFF: A China Ballad (1998; IMI 7756) Text: Lea Goldberg
MOSHE RASIUK: Teach Me, My God. Text: Lea Goldberg
DON McLEAN: Genesis (in the beginning) Text: Don McLean

Moran Choir, Naomi Faran – cond

MARY EVEN-OR: Holy Curtain for children’s choir (1984) Text: Amnon Shamush
HAIM ALEXANDER: Three Bird Songs. Texts: Rina Litvin, Ze’ev, Avraham Broides
DANNY SANDERSON, arr SHIMON SMIT: Goliath. Text: Alon Olearchik & Danny Senderson

Meitar Children’s Choir, Yehudit Chen – cond

DOV CARMEL: The Winter is Past for children’s choir (1984)
Text: Song of Songs
MENACHEM WIESENBERG: Four Children’s Songs, arr for children’s choir & pno (1995; IMI 7049). Texts: Kadia Molodowsky, Shmuel Bass, Yitzhak Katzenelson, Miriam Yalan-Stekelis
MICHAEL WOLPE: Psalm I

Tzlil Children’s Choir, Oshra Yaacov – cond

SARA LEVI-TANAI, arr PNINA INBAR: With the Sunrise
SARA SHOHAM: Michelle and the Stork. Text: Yossi Abulafia
DIDI SHACHAR, arr PNINA INBAR: Coming to you. Text: Didi Shachar
SHMUEL KRAUS, arr PNINA INBAR: Seeing Far and Transparently
Text: Yaacov Rotblit
“SHEVA” Band, arr PNINA INBAR: Salaam
PNINA INBAR: I Believe (after songs by Frankie Lane, Fairuz, Beni Nagari and Dan Almagor)

Shani Choir, Pnina Inbar – cond....

Sep 19, New Haven, CT
Sep 20, Marblehead, MA....
YEHEZKEL BRAUN: Four Keyboard Pieces for hpd (1992; IMI 6944)
EYAL BAHT: She Who Sits in the Gardens for s-rec & pno (1999)
BENJAMIN BAR-AM: Petite Suite for rec & hpd (1967; IMI 7760)

Drora Bruck – recs, Marina Minkin – hpd & pno....