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March 2008
ACUM AWARDS The 2007 ACUM Awards ceremony took place in Tel Aviv on March 30. Four awards were given this year under the concert music category. AHARON HARLAP received the Lifetime Achievement Award. LIOR NAVOK received the Menachem Avidom Annual Achievement Award for his work 'The Circle of Hope' (String Quartet No. 2). NAFTALI LAHAV received the Promotion of Publication Award for his work 'Music for Symphony Orchestra and Guitar'. URI BRENER received the award for an anonymously-submitted composition for his piano concerto 'Blarings, Clouds, Celebrations' (IMI 7799). The jury consisted of the composers Ron Weidberg, Nahum Amir and Ami Maayani. Further details (in Hebrew) can be found on the ACUM website (http://tinyurl.com/237hvr).
LANDAU AWARD The composer MENACHEM WIESENBERG is among the recipients of the 2008 awards for the performing arts, awarded by the Israeli Lottery's Michael Landau Fund. The ceremony took place on March 10, 2008, at the Suzanne Dellal Centre in Tel Aviv. The jury in the classical music category (Prof. Mendi Rodan, Dr. Edwin Seroussi and Dr. Eitan Steinberg) described Wiesenberg in their decision as "one of the most versatile creative artists active in Israel today. In his music, Wiesenberg successfully connects materials from Jewish sources – such as Biblical cantillations, Klezmer music, Ladino song, Israeli song – and materials from classical Arabic music. His artistic persona symbolizes the diversity of Israeli society, and crosses the boundaries between various creative domains, such as light music, jazz, and vocal, symphonic and chamber music".
February 2008
THE PAUL BEN-HAIM CONTEST: YOUNG MUSICIANS PERFORM ISRAELI WORKS The Paul Ben-Haim Contest took place during February. This bi-annual contest aims to encourage young Israeli musicians, aged 13-25, to perform Israeli art music. The contest is organised by Jeunesses Musicales Israel, in cooperation with the Ministry of Science, Culture and Sport, ACUM, The America-Israel Cultural Foundation, the Israel Composers’ League, the Israel Broadcasting Authority’s Voice of Music channel and the Israel Music Institute. The first prize in this year's contest was awarded to the percussionist NOYA SHLEIN. The second prize was awarded to the clarinetist UDI NAVEH. The third prize was awarded to the pianist NADAV HERTZKA. The special award for performing a work by Paul Ben-Haim, awarded by the Israel Music Institute, was presented to the saxophonist ANDRE ZIRLIN. The final stage and the award ceremony took place at the Einav Centre, Tel Aviv, on February 21, 2008.
KOUSSEVITZKY MUSIC FOUNDATION COMMISSION The Israeli composer DAN YUHAS and JONATHAN KEREN are among the recipients of the 2008 Koussevitzky Music Foundation award for the commissioning of new works. The Foundation, founded in 1942, works in collaboration with the Library of Congress in Washington CD; it awards five or six commissions each year. The winners are selected on the basis of previous compositions examined by the Foundation's jury. Yuhas's new work will be premiered upon completion by the Israel Contemporary Players; Keren's will be performed by the Suedama Ensemble. See http://www.koussevitzky.org/news.html for further details.
September 2007
THE PRIME MINISTER'S AWARD FOR COMPOSERS 2007 The winners of the 2007 Prime Minister’s Award for Composers are Richard Farber, Gilad Hochman, Aviya Kopelman, Eitan Steinberg and Irena Svetova in the Classical Music category, and Avi Adrian in the Jazz category. The jury for the classical music category consisted of Prof. Yehudit Cohen (chair), Alon Bur and Roni Porat; the jury for the Jazz category consisted of Yonni Rechter (chair), Yorai Oron and Dubi Lentz. The ceremony took place at the Jerusalem Theatre on September 19, 2007, in the presence of Mr. Galeb Majadle, the Minister of Science, Culture and Sports, as part of the 2007 Israeli Music Celebration.
June 2007
ENGEL AWARD The composer Prof. LEON SCHIDLOWSKY (b. 1931) won the Tel Aviv Municipality’s 2007 Engel Award for composition and research in Hebrew music; the prize was awarded to him for his “lifetime achievement as a composer and as a music educator who has had a decisive influence on generations of Israeli composers”. The prize was awarded by Tel Aviv’s Mayor, Mr. Ron Huldai, in a ceremony which took place at the Enav Centre in Tel Aviv on June 14, 2007. The prize was also awarded to the Raanana Symphonette Orchestra “for their unique contribution in cultivating Jewish musical tradition across the generations, and especially the heritage of the great Jewish composers who perished in the Holocaust”. During the ceremony, Nitai Zori – the Symphonette’s leader – performed Schidlowsky’s Prayer for unaccompanied violin (2002; IMI 7451). The jury consisted of Ruben Seroussi, Prof. Hanoch Ron and Ze’ev Steinberg.
March 2007
ACUM AWARDS The 2006 ACUM Awards ceremony took place in Kfar Sava on March 26 2007. Three awards were given this year under the concert music category. Dan Yuhas won the Lifetime Achievement Award. Amit Gilutz won the Promotion of Publication Award for his work White Darkness for chamber orchestra (the conductor Barak Tal won the 2005 Oedoen Partos Award for the world premiere of this work, which took place in November 2005). Benjamin Bar-Am won the award for an anonymously-submitted composition for his work The Lamentations of Jeremiah (1997; IMI 7225) for baritone and mixed choir a cappella. The jury consisted of the composers Josef Bardanashvili, Boris Pigovat and Menachem Zur. Further details (in Hebrew) can be found on http://tinyurl.com/2z9maf.
August 2006
THE PRIME MINISTER'S AWARD FOR COMPOSERS 2006 The recipients of the 2006 Prime Minister Award for Composers are Uri Brener, Yinam Leef, Michael Libman, Erel Paz and Yitzhak Yedid. In the Jazz category, the Award was granted this year to Eli Degibri. The jury for the classical music category consisted of Itai Talgam (chair), Eyal Ein-Habar, Gideon Lewensohn, Eliyahu Schleifer and Jonathan Zack; the jury for the jazz category consisted of Eli Magen (chair), Dani Karpel and Yossi Mar-Haim. The award ceremony took place at the Tel Aviv Museum, Tel-Aviv, on August 22, 2006.
