In 2009, a few years after graduating from the Jerusalem Academy of Music, Israeli composer and conductor Tom Cohen founded the Jerusalem Orchestra East & West (JOEW). His mission? To create “a new musical…
Since the Israeli-Canadian violist Rivka Golani first became aware of the Blackfoot – the First People of Canada – she has been inspired by their history. She has performed several concerts in their honour in Canada and has composed pieces, with their permission, that reference Blackfoot…
When Jeremy Arden began researching the sounds of klezmer music he found that the genre drew on a scale that stretched back to use in ancient religious services. Now he is using this distinctive sound for his own composition, Im…