Select Chamber and Solo Works and Performances
- Quintet for Clarinet, Harp and Strings (in progress, title TBD)
Commissioned by the Israeli Chamber Project.
Scheduled performances at Baruch College, Palo Alto JCC, Music at Oakmont (Sonoma), Green Music Center (Sonoma), Carmel chamber music society, Tel Aviv conservatory, and Jerusalem Music center.
- Around the Cauldron (2016, 12 min.) – violin, cello, piano
Commissioned by Concert Artists Guild with support from the Adele and John Gray endowment Fund
Lysander Trio (Itamar Zorman, Liza Stepanova and Michael Katz)
Carnegie’s Weill Hall • Clark Memorial Library UCLA (LA) • Richardson Auditorium (Princeton, NJ, scheduled 7.18.17)
- Doaa and Masa (2016, 10 min.) – harp solo
Sponsored by a grant from Ramapo College of New Jersey
Sivan Magen
Sheung Wan Civic Centre (Hong Kong) • Israel Music Conservatory (Tel-Aviv) • University of Texas in Austin • National Library of Columbia (Bogota, Columbia) scheduled 9/13/2017
- Three Goat Blues (2015, 14 min.) – string quartet
Commissioned by Houston Arts Alliance
Apollo Chamber Players
Midtown Arts & Theater Center Houston (TX) • Temple Emmanuel (Beaumont, TX)
- Suite from Romeo and Juliet, arrangement of excerpts from Prokofiev’s ballet (2015, 18 min.) – flute, viola, harp Commissioned by Tre Voci
Tre Voci (Kim Kashkashian, Marina Piccinini and Sivan Magen)
Philadelphia Museum of Arts • Jordan Hall (Boston, MA) • Eastman School of Music • Le Poisson Rouge (NYC) •
Wigmore Hall (London, scheduled 5/28/18) • Accademia Musicale Chigiana (Italy, scheduled 7.12.17)
- Parsley’s Hammer (2014, 8 min.) – violin, piano
Commissioned by SCI and ASCAP
Margaret Jones and Hee-Kyung Juhn
Henderson State University (Arkadelphia, AR)
- Jerusalem Stones (2012, 7 min.) – string quartet
Brentano Quartet • Mivos Quartet • PUBLIQuartet
Beijing Modern Music Festival (China) • Southside Salon (Hong Kong) • DiMenna Center (NYC) • Cinema Arts Centre (Huntington, NY)
- The Rushing Camel (2012, 9 min.) – classical guitar
Nadav Lev
Festival de Chaillol (France) • Le Poisson Rouge (NYC) • Spectrum (New York) • 92 Street Y (NYC) • Ha-Teiva (Jaffa, Israel)
- Shine On You Crazy Diamond – Parts VI-IX, arrangement of Pink Floyd’s song (2012, 8 min.) – flute, oboe, piano, strings
Ensemble 20-21 • PUBLIQuartet
Gershwin Hotel (NYC) • Princeton University
- Ten Variations (2011, 15 min.) – oboe, piano, string quartet
Nash Ensemble of London • the Chicago Ensemble • Cuatro Puntos • Ensemble SYZYGY
Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien (Austria) • Gershwin Hotel (NYC) • University of Texas at Austin • Princeton University •The University of Chicago • Southern Methodist University (Dallas, TX)
- The Phoenix Lament (2011, 15 min.) – flute, violin, cello, harp
Miranda Cuckson, Sivan Magen, Tara Helen O’Connor, and Greg Hesselink
Princeton University
- Trio for a Spry Clarinet, Weeping Cello and Ruminating Harp (2010, 12 min.) – clarinet (doubles b. cl.), cello, harp Commissioned by the Israeli Chamber Project
Israeli Chamber Project • Inn-hyuck Cho, Emmanuel Ceysson, Jerry Grossman (Metropolitan Opera Orchestra’s principal players) • Kassia Ensemble • Inn-hyuck Cho, Emmanuel Ceysson, Jerry Grossman (Metropolitan Opera Orchestra’s principal players) • Exponential Ensemble • Sinfonieorchester Münster • Principal players of the Budapest Festival Orchestra (forthcoming)
The Morgan Library & Museum (NYC) • Ottawa Chamberfest 2012 (Canada) • University of California (UCLA) • South Orange Performing Arts Center (NJ) • Eastman School of Music (NY) • Einav Center for Culture (Tel-Aviv) • Tenri Cultural Center (NYC) • The American Harp Society in Dallas (TX) • Chamber Music Pittsburgh (PA) • Parlance Chamber Concerts (Ridgewood, NJ) • National Opera Center (NYC) • Theater Münster (Germany) • The Livemore (Pittsburgh, PA) • Budapest Music Center (scheduled 2.25.18)
- Quintet for Bass Guitar and Strings (2008, 20 min.)
Meitar Ensemble • Flux Quartet with bassist Logan Coale
Bargemusic (NYC) • The Jerusalem Theatre (Israel) • New Music Conflagration (Saint Petersburg, FL)
Select Rock and World Music
- Lashana Ha-Ba’a Biyerusalayim, setting of a Jewish prayer (in progress) –for voice and rhythm section
Commissioned by Park Avenue Synagogue
Cantor Azi Schwartz
- Adon Olam, rock song based on biblical text (2015, 5 min.) –for voice, saxophone, cello and rhythm section
Commissioned by Park Avenue Synagogue
Cantor Azi Schwartz
- Windings (2006, full-length album and show) – settings of Israeli poems and instrumental pieces
Double Space (progressive rock band)
Targ Center, broadcasted live on Israel “Voice of the Music” Radio One • Music of the Desert Festival (Sde Boker, Israel) • Jerusalem Film Festival • Zappa Jerusalem • Camelot Tel-Aviv • Yellow Submarine (Jerusalem)
- Danse Amaleque (2006, 4 min.) –clarinet, violin and bass guitar
Klezshop Trio • Gilad Cohen Quartet
92nd Street Y (NYC) • Verdi Square Festival for the Arts (NYC) • The Stone (NYC) • The Bendheim Performing Arts Center (Scarsdale, NY) • Indiana University • Princeton University • Ramapo College of New Jersey
- Beatleshop, klezmer-style arrangement of The Beatles and Beach Boys medley (2007, 6 min.) –cl., violin and bass guitar
Klezshop Trio • Gilad Cohen Quartet
Princeton University • Ramapo College of New Jersey • The Jewish Center (Princeton, NJ)
- The Funkyblu Show (1997-2002, full length show) –voice, electric guitar, keyboard, bass and drums
Funkyblu
Black’n’Blues Festival (Giv’ataim, Israel) • Einav Center for Culture (Tel-Aviv) • Camelot Herzlia (Israel)
Select Performances (Piano, guitar, bass guitar, voice, choral conducting)
- Shorashim Ensemble, Israeli & Jewish music ensemble (arranger, pianist, guitarist, singer):
Merkin Hall (New York), Jazz at Lincoln Center (New York), Symphony Space (New York), Civic Centre (Ottawa, Canada), Georgetown University (Washington, DC), Eisenhower Park (East Meadow, NY) – 2005-2015
- Klezshop Trio, Original modern klezmer trio (composer, bassist, singer): 92ndStreet Y (New York), Verdi Square Festival for the Arts (New York), The Stone (New York), The Bendheim Performing Arts Center(Scarsdale, NY), Indiana University – 2007-2009.
- High Five Vocalworks, Vocal jazz group (bassist, arranger), Don’t Tell Mama (New York), Mostly Music Festival (Nyack, NY), Rockland Center for the Arts (Nyack, NY) – 2006-2008.
- Double Space, Original progressive rock group (composer, lead singer, bassist, pianist): Targ Center, broadcasted live on Israel “Voice of the Music” Radio One (Jerusalem), Music of the Desert Festival (Sde Boker, Israel), Jerusalem Film Festival (Jerusalem), Zapa Jerusalem (Jerusalem), Camelot Tel-Aviv (Tel-Aviv), Yellow Submarine (Jerusalem) – 2003-2008.
Conference Activity and Invited Talks
- The Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance (2017)
Concert music, theatre, Pink Floyd and their intersections
- Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University (2015)
Musical Design in Stephen Sondheim’ Company
- The Society of Composers, Inc. Region VI Conference (2015)
The Shadow of Yesterday’s Triumph: “Shine On You Crazy Diamond” and the Stage Theory of Grief
- The Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance (2015)
My works for the concert hall, rock bands, and musical theatre
- The University of Chicago (2015)
Expansive Form in Pink Floyd’s Song “Dogs”
- Northwestern University (2015)
Expansive Rock: Large-Scale Structure in the Music of Pink Floyd
- Pink Floyd: Sound, Sight, and Structure Conference, Princeton University (2014)
The Shadow of Yesterday’s Triumph: “Shine On You Crazy Diamond” and the Stage Theory of Grief
- Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University (2014)
Musical Design in Stephen Sondheim’ Company
- Princeton Research Symposium, Princeton University (2013)
Finding a Way through the Maze: Unique Large-Scale Structure in Pink Floyd’s Song “Dogs”
- Temple Ner Tamid, Bloomfield, NJ (2013)
Lyrical and Musical Messages in Contemporary Israeli Popular Music
- Edward Aldwell Center for Piano Performance and Musicianship, Israel
Visual Images and Music Design in John Adams’ Transmigration of Souls (2012)
Large-Scale Structure in Pink Floyd’s song “Dogs” (2010)
- The University of Nebraska-Lincoln School of Music (2012)
My Concert Music
- The Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance (2012)
Large-Scale Structure in Pink Floyd’s song “Dogs”
- The University of Iowa School of Music (2011)
My Concert Music
- Mannes College of Music (2009)
Rock Harmony in Music of The Beatles, Nirvana and Alice in Chains
- Beit Hinuch High School, Jerusalem, Israel (2008)
Genres and Musical Characteristics in Rock Music
- The Academy for Jewish Religion, New York City (2007)
Lyrical and Musical Messages in Contemporary Israeli Popular Music
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