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Jean Claude Jones was born in Sfax, Tunisia. He moved to France at a young age, where he taught himself to play bass and lead guitar. At the age of 17 he was playing in professional popular music and jazz bands. In 1978 he moved to the US where he pursued formal musical studies |
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Jean Claude Jones was born in Sfax, Tunisia. He moved to France at a young age, where he taught himself to play bass and lead guitar. At the age of 17 he was playing in professional popular music and jazz bands. In 1978 he moved to the US where he pursued formal musical studies. In 1981 he graduated from the Berklee College of Music in Boston, where he majored in jazz guitar, and moved to Los Angeles where he studied guitar and bass at the Music Institute of Technology for two years. He emigrated to Israel in 1983 and became a key player in the newly developing jazz scene. In 1986 he made a definitive switch from bass guitar to double bass, and became involved in free improvised music. Over time he added electronics and computer-manipulated sounds to his musical arsenal.
The driving force behind JC's work is "finding one's space."
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Daniel Hoffman, and descendant of a long line of Bessarabian furriers,
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Daniel Hoffman, and descendant of a long line of Bessarabian furriers, was born and raised near Los Angeles. In June of 2005 he moved to Israel. He started his violin studies at the age of seven, and continued his studies in Western classical music until graduating from the Manhattan School of Music in New York, whereupon he quickly turned his attentions to Eastern European Jewish folk music and formed several klezmer bands in San Francisco. In 1992, he co-founded Davka trio (now a quartet) combining Ashkenazi Jewish music with jazz and Middle-Eastern music. Davka has released five CDs of original music, including four on the Tzadik label. He also founded the Klez-X (formerly the SF Klezmer Experience) and has developed a reputation as one of the foremost experts of the Yiddish violin style, recording and performing with the top players in the field.
Hoffman has received numerous composition grants, including from Meet The Composer and the NEA. He has written two new scores for the silent films “The Golem” and “Jewish Luck”. He is currently composing music for “David in Shadow and Light,” a new musical (with librettist Yehuda Hyman) based on the King David story. The musical will premiere at Theatre J in Washington DC in May of 2008.
In Israel he performs with J.C. Jones and Nory Jacoby in Between The Strings, a free music string trio, and in Trio Carpion, an Ashkenazi-roots trio performing Yiddish and Romanian vocal music and pre-war European klezmer.
Hoffman currently performs in the new Jerusalem Theater Company comedy “Are You Happy Yet?” His latest releases are Davka Live and a remix of the Klez-X Harbst disc, KLZXRMX.
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Stephen Horenstein was born in 1948, in Winthrop, MA, and emigrated
to Israel in 1980. After graduating from Trinity College/Hartt School
of Music (BA), formal flute studies with Marcel Moyse, and the University
of Wisconsin (MA in Composition), Horenstein was appointed to the faculty
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Stephen Horenstein was born
in 1948, in Winthrop, MA, and emigrated to Israel in 1980. After graduating
from Trinity College/Hartt School of Music (BA), formal flute studies
with Marcel Moyse, and the University of Wisconsin (MA in Composition),
Horenstein was appointed to the faculty of Bennington College (Black
Music Department, Dance, 1973-1980). His first formative work as a creative
player was with musical innovator Bill Dixon, with whom he recorded and
performed extensively for over a decade (Festival D’Autumne, Verona
Festival; Vision Festival, recordings on Black Saint-Soul Note, etc.).
Upon arriving in Israel, Horenstein taught at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance (1981-86), Tel Aviv University (1982-1986), after which he founded the Jerusalem Institute of Contemporary Music (1987-present).
He has collaborated with many well-known artists, including Isamu Noguchi, Steve Paxton, Israeli Hadani, Rena Schoenfeld, Kibbutz Dance Company, Vertigo, Esti Kenan-Ofri, and virtuoso percussionist, Jeffery Kowalsky. He has also been guest artist and lecturer at Brandeis University; Middlebury Colege; SUNY, Purchase; and Stanford University. Horenstein received his PhD from Hebrew University, and published a work on perception of time in music.
Stephen Horenstein’s works for ensemble, small orchestra, soloist and electronics have been performed in festivals worldwide, including: NY International Festival, Other Worlds, Milan; Vienna Harp Festival; Media Mix, University of York; ICMF, Hong Kong; Israel Festival; Helsinki Festival; Red Sea Festival, and others. His recordings include: Collages (Black Saint Soul Note) and Between the Silences (JICM Recordings).Recent experimental collaborations are featured on Kadima Collective Records, with J.C. Jones. His latest projects include a forthcoming 60th birthday retrospective. Horenstein’s work uses documentary sources, many of them from Jewish sound archives, as well a new vision of the 21st century orchestra.
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Nori Jacoby studied music and composition at the Israel Arts and Science
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Nori Jacoby studied music and composition at the Israel Arts and Science Academy in Jerusalem with Prof. Andre Hadju and Dr. Michael Wolpe.
His chamber and orchestral music include “Jerusalem Dream” (2005), “Symphonic Concerto” (2003), “Lullaby" (2002), “Prayer” (1998), and “Kaprizma” (1999), which were broadcast by Israeli Radio. Jacoby has created music for the Israeli Contemporary String Quartet and the rock band The Revenge of The Tractor (for the Spring Festival, 2004). Since the Israel Festival in 2004, Nori has been performing in “Writing From Within,” an evening based on ancient Chassidic music.
In the last few years, Jacoby has been collaborating with the Israeli singer Victoria Hanna. In 2003 Nori has accompanied Hanna in the opening of The New Delhi Sacred Music Festival in the presence of His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
Jacoby played his compositions and arrangements in distinguished festivals around the world, including the Singapore Art Festival (2006); the Chicago World Music Festival (2005); the Melbourne Festival (2005); the London Jewish Culture Festival (Place Theater 1999); the Krakow Dance Festival (2001); the Israel Festival (2003, 2004).
Jacoby has played in ensembles of improvised music, including Between the Strings with JC Jones and Daniel Hoffman, and Mysteria, an ethnic acoustic and electronic contemporary ensemble. At the Israeli Festival (2003) Nori prompted the Israeli premiere of John Zorn’s Cobra
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Ariel was born in 1997 in Jerusalem. He began formal piano lessons
just before his 5th birthday with Lea Agmon. Since then he has performed
repeatedly at concerts at the Jerusalem Conservatory of Music and at
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Ariel was born in 1997 in Jerusalem. He began formal piano lessons just before his 5th birthday with Lea Agmon. Since then he has performed repeatedly at concerts at the Jerusalem Conservatory of Music and at various youth concerts, alone and with orchestra or string ensemble. He also studies violin and composition.
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Yuval Mesner was born in 1965 in Oslo, Norway. He emigrated to Israel
in1970. Mesner plays the cello since the age of eight, and has studied
at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and at the Rimon School of Jazz and
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Yuval Mesner was born in 1965 in Oslo, Norway. He emigrated to Israel in1970. Mesner plays the cello since the age of eight, and has studied at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and at the Rimon School of Jazz and Contemporary Music in Ramat Hasharon.
Since his early twenties Mesner plays the cello in various styles, including rock, jazz, world music, flamenco, fado, and others, and has recorded and performed with many popular Israeli singers such as Esther Ofarim, Korin Alal, Dana Berger, and Ramy Kleinstein. He has also performed improvisational music with musicians such as Harold Rubin, Steve Horenstein, and JC Jones. His first band was Tattoo, an alternative rock band that released a highly acclaimed disc in 1988. In 1990 he founded the rock-pop band Balagan, which released a popular disc, with Mesner writing and arranging the songs and producing the disc. Between 1992 and 1995 he lived in Amsterdam, Holland, where he played with a Portugese fado band, and served as composer and musical manager of the theatre group Azart - The Ship of Fools (www.azart.org).
Since 1996 he has been writing music for numerous theater plays in Israel, including Har Lo Zaz and Tamara for Habima National Theatre, Apples from the Desert and Death Reason for Beit Lessin Theatre, and Boris Shpilman and Last Tree of Jerusalem for the Haifa Theatre.
Mesner won prizes for his compositions at the 1998 Acco Theatre Festival and the 2006 Haifa Festival for Children.
In 2004 Mesner released the Mesner Quartet disc with the singers Eran Tzur and Alona Daniel, for which he arranged rock songs for a string quartet.
Since 1986 Mesner has bee a member of the influential Israeli world-music East-West Ensemble, which released four discs and toured Europe, the United States, Hong Kong and Japan. Mesner and JC Jones are currently recording a new disc of improvised music for cello and bass.
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Josef Sprinzak was born in Jerusalem in 1962. He is a performance
and interdisciplinary artist living in Tel-Aviv. He has studied Computer
Science and Visual Theater in Israel, and voice in the Roy Hart Artistic
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Josef Sprinzak was born in Jerusalem in 1962. He is a performance and interdisciplinary artist living in Tel-Aviv. He has studied Computer Science and Visual Theater in Israel, and voice in the Roy Hart Artistic Center in France. Sprinzak teaches voice and performance and is conducting PhD research on Text-Sound Art.
Sprinzak is among the first sound poets in Israel. He has been performing in various musical performance art, poetry, and theater events in Israel, Europe, and South Korea. He collaborates with Israeli musicians of the first rank in the field of contemporary music, such as JC Jones, Haggai Fershtman, Ariel Shibolet, and Ilan Green.
His artistic language is based on breaking words into syllables, using breathing techniques, and extreme vocal production. These techniques are used to interpret text in a way that enhances the physical and spatial aspects of the text, trying to reach the sources of language and making the vocal rendering an experience of total theater.
Among his works are: Tapeman (1994), maggie and milly and molly and may (1997), Berlin Diaries (2001), The World is Round (2002), The Story of Ferdinand (2003), Mikraot Israel (with Adva Drori, 2005), Delete Alef to Shutdown (2006). H”e has won Citations of Excellence at the Phenomena International Performance Festival in Jerusalem for Tapeman (1996) and at the Acco Festival of Alternative Theater for The World is Round (2002).
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Gershon Waiserfirer was born in 1972 in Tajikistan. In 1980 his family emigrated
to Israel. His passion for music emerged at the age of 11, when he started
playing the piano, the baritone horn, later on the trombone at the Conservatory
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Gershon Waiserfirer was born in 1972 in Tajikistan. In 1980 his family emigrated to Israel. His passion for music emerged at the age of 11, when he started playing the piano, the baritone horn, and later on the trombone at the Conservatory in Tel-Aviv.
After traditional studies at the Tel-Aviv Concervatory, the Center of Music and Dance from the East in Jerusalem, and the Rimon School of Jazz and Contemporary Music, he continued his musical development mostly by studying on his own. He also studied acting at Beit Tsvi, one of the leading theater schools in Israel.
Together with theater studies, he began exploring different string instruments, including the guitar, the oud, and the jumbush. He is currently one of the most sought-after oud players in Israel. Owing to his virtuoso playing on a variety of instruments, he is a regular member of a large number of successful musical groups in Israel.
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Ido Govrin was born in1976 in Jerusalem, Israel. |
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Ido Govrin was born in1976 in Jerusalem, Israel. He plays and programs acoustic and digital instruments to produce and investigate sound art. He releases music on several recording labels, both in Israel and Europe, and creates original music for films and art installations. He is the manager of the Israeli experimental record label Interval Recordings and co-owner of Duprass, a studio for digital art. |
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Albert Beger was born in Turkey in 1959 and immigrated to Israel as a young
child. He began classical studies with Uri Taplitz, the first flute player
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Albert Beger was born in Turkey in 1959 and immigrated to Israel as a young child. He began classical studies with Uri Taplitz, the first flute player of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. Soon after he started showing an interest in Jazz. In 1985 Beger began studies at Rimon, an Israeli school of contemporary music, and started playing the tenor saxophone (which became his main instrument) and the soprano saxophone.
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Harold Rubin was born in South Africa on Friday 13th, May 1932. He studied
classical clarinet from the age of 16, although his main interest was in
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Harold Rubin was born in South Africa on Friday 13th, May 1932. He studied classical clarinet from the age of 16, although his main interest was in jazz. At age 18 he started playing at the Skyline night club In Johanesburg with Dulcy Ryder, and formed his quartette, performing the music of Duke Ellington, Count Basie, and Benny Goodman. They also performed at the Odin Cinema in the ghetto Sophiatown, before it was bulldozed and the citizens moved to Sowetto.
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Ariel Shibolet Born in1972 in Israel
Metal Tube & Consciousness, Leo Records – solo 2006
Upcoming cds:
Pepper spray with Jen baker, Damon smith & Jerome Bryerton.
Played and recorded with: J.C Jones, Harold Rubin, Wolfgang Fuchs, Damon Smith, Birgit Ulher, Assif Tsahar …
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Performer, improviser, and composer, Yoram Lachish combines the discipline
of a classical foundation with improvising skills. In addition to the oboe
and the English horn, Yoram plays a variety of ethnic wind instruments
such as the Shehnai (Indian oboe) and Zurna (Turkish oboe), sometimes equipped
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Performer, improviser, and composer, Yoram Lachish combines the discipline of a classical foundation with improvising skills. In addition to the oboe and the English horn, Yoram plays a variety of ethnic wind instruments such as the Shehnai (Indian oboe) and Zurna (Turkish oboe), sometimes equipped with electronic facilities. His experience as a classical player includes, among others, the Israeli Chamber Orchestra with whom he appeared as soloist, the Israel Kibbutz Orchestra, and other classical ensembles, with whom he has performed in Germany’s Mitte Europa International festival, in Switzerland’s Verbier Festival, as well as in Italy, Spain, France, Japan, China, and Hong-Kong. Yoram's involvement with the jazz, rock,, and world music scene in Israel has led to the establishment of Common Bond, an eight-piece band performing a mixture of ethnic world jazz. Established in 1999, the Common Bond has performed around Israel has appeared in several international music festivals. Yoram performed and recorded with leading Israeli rock and pop Israeli artists such as Mind Church and Mika Karni. In 2004 Yoram was included in the European Jazz Orchestra, Swinging Europe, with whom he toured Europe and Brazil. In the last years, Yoram has become involved in Tel-Aviv's experimental music scene. He is a member of the Tel-Aviv Art Ensemble, a large instrumental ensemble dedicated to performing new improvised music. Yoram also collaborates with artists in a variety of fields, including dancers, video artists, and electronic musicians.
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Yonatan Kretzmer was born in Jerusalem in 1982. He began playing the saxophone
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Haggai Fershtman was born in 1972 in Israel. In 1990 he graduated from the
Thelma Yalin school for fine arts. In 1987 he studied drums with David Rich.
Between 1997 and 2000 he studied African drumming from Mali and Senegal with
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Haggai Fershtman was born in 1972 in Israel. In 1990 he graduated from the
Thelma Yalin school for fine arts. In 1987 he studied drums with David Rich.
Between 1997 and 2000 he studied African drumming from Mali and Senegal with
Issac Nahum and master drummer Mamadie Keita.
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Israeli creator in the field of Performance Art & Sound Poetry. Studied
in the Rubin Academy of Music, Jerusalem & won A.R.C.M diploma in piano
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Israeli creator in the field of Performance Art & Sound Poetry. Studied
in the Rubin Academy of Music, Jerusalem & won A.R.C.M diploma in piano
performing. Her 1st large scale sound performance (“The Forbidden Museum”) was presented in “The Wiener Festwochen” in 1997. Since, she performed in major poetry, contemporary music & interdisciplinary events throughout Israel, Austria, Poland, Slovakia & Vietnam. Anat wrote a considerable number of original Sound-Text works. She created
spoken compositions for Ensemble "Musica Nova" (“The Sacred
Score”, 2003, “Teeth”, 2006). Apart from collaborating with performers and musicians such as Etty Ben Zaken,
JC Jones, Clare Charnely, Raphael Masilkar, Anat has special interest in the
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