Celebrating the half anniversary of the Israeli Music Festival – in Haifa
The 25th Israeli Music Festival, initiated by the Ministry of Culture and Sports, will take place between September 28 – October 3, 2022 in Zichron Ya’akov, Haifa, Tel Aviv and Be’er Sheva.
The holiday will come to the city of Haifa and will be hosted at the Rapaport Center, the Ticotin Museum and Beit Hecht.
A musical celebration of dozens of concerts and shows that combine old and new, east and west, classics and premieres – all about the purity of Israeli music. The best composers, performers, creators, orchestras, ensembles and choirs will present to the audience a wide and colorful spectrum of Israeli musical activity.
This year’s festival program presents a broad and diverse picture of Israeli artistic music in all its shades: alongside works by the founding fathers of Israeli music such as Yehezkel Brown and Zvi Avni, the works of young female composers including Carmel Kuriel and Batya Franklech will be performed.
Alongside a program by the East-West Orchestra – which has established itself as one of the most interesting bodies in the musical scene in our area – we will hear the Guy Ben Hinnom Choir, a young musical collective that has developed new avenues of musical expression in the Hebrew language, and alongside old orchestras such as the Haifa Symphony Orchestra and the Jerusalem Camerata Young people like the Jerusalem Street Orchestra, the group that challenges the existing concepts of presenting music to an audience.
This year the artistic director of the festival is Yuval Zoran, who replaces Prof. Oded Zahavi who has directed the festival for the past four years.
“It is a great honor for me to take on the role of musical director of the festival as it reaches its twenty-fifth year – half a jubilee,” says Yuval Zoran, the new artistic director of the music festival. “After many times in which I performed as part of the holiday as a conductor, this is an opportunity for me to lead the holiday in the coming years from the curatorial side, to expose our audience to the rich and diverse work that takes place in Israel and to give a stage to composers, performers, creators and the various bodies that together make up the larger whole Its parts – the Israeli music.”
“In this year’s program, I tried to present as broad and diverse a picture as possible of Israeli art music in all its shades, of its position in the international musical scene – composers and performers alike, and of the issues that preoccupy it,” Zoran adds. “Alongside the founding fathers of Israeli music such as Yehezkel Brown – whose birthday we celebrate 100 this year – we will hear the works of young female composers such as Carmel Curiel and Bethia Franklech.
Alongside the intense and original work of Samir Odeh Tamimi and Haya Chernovin – one of the most important and respected voices active on the world scene today – we will hear the works of the young composers Nizar Elkhter and Dor Fischer. Alongside a program by the East-West Orchestra – which has established itself in recent years as one of the most interesting bodies in the musical scene in our area – we will hear the Guy Ben Hinnom Choir, a musical collective that has been developing new avenues of musical expression in the Hebrew language in recent years.”
The Ministry of Culture and Sports, which encourages Israeli creation of artistic music through the festival, invites the general public, free of charge, to concerts and shows in which the best Israeli performers will take part.
Admission to all events – free of charge!
Minister of Culture and Sports, Hili Trooper:
“I am proud to open the week of the Israeli Music Festival in its 25th year! I am happy that this year the Israeli Music Festival will be celebrated on the stages. I invite the entire Israeli society to enjoy this festive week, which is all about the purity of Israeli music. This year the wonderful female artists and artists were chosen to pay tribute to the architects of the heritage of The Israeli classics with arrangements and premieres of new works, which will fill the concert halls with special performances throughout the country and free of charge. There will be performances here on stage that combine old and new, East and West, beloved Israeli classics and Israeli premieres. There is great power in music and how good it is that we are a part of it. Ministry Culture and sports will continue to support and encourage the field of music in all its shades.”
Artistic director: Yuval Zoran Administrative manager: Eitan Par | Production: Banda Productions
Entry is free, with pre-registration – at the link:
During the festival, entry is subject to availability • The right to changes is reserved
The Israeli Music Festival will arrive in Haifa on Monday 3/10/22 and will be hosted in the halls of the Rapaport Center, Ticotin Museum, Beit Hecht
17:00 – Tikotin Haifa museum hall
A journey into chaos
Nur Darvish – soprano
Nizar Alkhater – piano
Nizar Alkhater: A musical sentence (Joomla Musicia) from the cycle soft rain
in Bat Marom: from a cycle of Yiddish poems
1. Winter 2. Was Volsto Marie 3. Maris prayer
Nizar Alkhater: Waltz Andalus – solo piano
Nizar Alkhater: Journey to Chaos (premiere)
1. Khali Min Khali (Situation from me) 2. Ya Kabar Albalad (The Elders of the Village) 3. Omri (My Beloved)
Yitzhak Aviezer: Nahar Elkhald (Everlasting Valley) – solo piano
Servant of Allah: Elanhar Elkhaled (overture) – solo piano
Nizar Alkhater: Ending song in Andalusian style – Ya Ruhi (Oh Ruhi)
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17:00 – Tikotin Museum Hall
Games – students of the music major at the “Reot Lawunomiot” high school in Haifa
Composers and performers:
Nega Halfon: Games
Violin – Naama Ben Zaken Piano – Nega Halfon
André Heido: two chapters from the third hand
Piano – Uriel Alon
Naama Ben Zaken: Ground
Violin – Naama Ben Zaken Piano – Nega Halfon
Or Vared: Sorry
Flute – Aya Korogodski | Clarinet – Omri Rogel Cello – Michal Reifeld
Andre Haj: Rhapsody in C minor
Trombone – Milan Lihakon | Piano – Ova Rubinstein
Stone deer: Triptych
Piano – Ova Rubinstein
Uriel Alon: Sophie’s chaos
Saxophone – Ilan Gomosh Piano – Uriel Alon
Director of the course – Dr. Ofir Ilzetsky
19:00 – Beit Hecht Studio Theater
Between the sacred and the profane – a Spanish Jewish anthology for Piyot
Daniel Akiva: Jewish-Spanish anthology for clarinet and guitar
Arrangements for peyots From the Jewish heritage, Spanish for voice and guitar
Spanish Jewish Anthology for Piyots, Chapters 1 – 10
Poems: 1. A little sister – Haifa version,
2. A beautiful view from Mexico
3. The differentiator
Spanish Jewish Anthology for Piyots, chapters 15-24
Poems: 1. Go to me, my desire – Haifa version, version 1
2. Go to me, my desire – Haifa version – version B
3. Shavat Anim – Haifa version + Arabic poem on which the poem is based
Spanish Jewish Anthology for Piyots, chapters 33 – 42
Poems: 1. Odach ki Anitani – Jerusalem style
2. Happy to leave – Haifa style
Durme Mi Andjeliko – put angels to sleep, lullaby (voice, clarinet and guitar)
20:30 – Rappaport Center Hall
Between Gaza and Berlin – the Haifa Symphony Orchestra
conductor – Retam Nir
Chief musical consultant – Yoel Levy
Zvi Avni: Desert visions
Fisher generation: the pilot’s lament for the little prince
Abia Kopelman: Between Gaza and Berlin
Entry is free – you must reserve a place in advance – at the link
