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November 2008

Nov 8, Munich
PAUL BEN-HAIM: Joram – Oratorio for S, T, Bar, B, mixed choir & SO (1933; IMI 7374)

Soloists t.b.a.
Münchner Motettenchor, Münchner Symphoniker
Heiko Siemens – cond

September 2008

Sep 29, Tbilisi, Georgia
JOSEF BARDANASHVILI:

Elegy for StrO (1996)
Dialogues for vcl & SO (2002; IMI 7501)
Symphony No. 2: 'The Way To...' (2001)
Yearning for Mez & SO (1999). Texts: Pure Prayer, Blessings, Ecclesiastes

Zvi Plesser – vcl
Eti Ankri – Mez
Tbilisi Symphony Orchestra
Vakhtang Kakhidze – 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 25,26, Jerusalem
RON WEIDBERG: Variations on a Theme by Mozart, ver for orch

Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, IBA
Uri Segal – cond

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 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

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

May 2008

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

Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt
Howard Griffiths – cond

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

Lübecker Philharmoniker
Yeruham Scharovsky – 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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, 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 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 10, Lucern
BENJAMIN YUSUPOV: Concerto for vcl & SO (2006; WP)
Mischa Maisky – vcl
Lucerne SO
Benjamin Yusupov – cond

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 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 – cond

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

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