News
Dec 28, 2022
Finally, after the long Covid draught, Sooner and Later is going on stage again
This 30 min. long song cycle of mine is my most loved-by-the audience piece, yet many performances were cancelled repeatedly during the Covid years. Finally we are back on stage with the Israel Chamber Orch., this time having the wonderful Tom Cohen as a soloist. Here’s from the rehearsal, follow the updates for further performances!
Nov 27, 2022
Performing MINORITY at IMSF ’22 was a blast!
I had my band performing the MINORITY show at the fantastic Israeli Music Showcase, which ended with networking day. We are looking forward to perform more worldwide and in Israel alike, busy now editing the videos from the show. Here’s a picture of 3 out of 7 band members – Vidi, Ori, and me.
Sep 3, 2022
Dior Quartet performing Black Widow at Banff Competition
Congrats to Dior Quartet for getting to the finals on the Banff Competition (best string quartet competition in the world!) and for performing Black Widow. The whole event was just streamed live by Banff, here it is starting at !:05:30
Jan 2, 2021
MINORITY album is out!!!
THE LONG AWAITED “MINORITY” – a mix of indie-pop songs and string pieces – IS FINALLY AVAILABLE.
You can listen to it on all the streaming platforms, but also can listen & purchase here
Nov. 20, 2021
SMILE – first single from MINORITY
The first single and video from the upcoming album MINORITY is here and on all streaming platforms, prepare your smile:
March 1, 2020
The amazing “Rightfully Ours” by SF Girls Chorus & Berkeley Ballet – SOLD OUT
I am stoked about the beautiful sold-out night at the Yerba Buena Arts Center, SF of San Francisco Girls Chorus & Berkeley Ballet, with guest appearance of The Living Earth Show and Amaranth Quartet. I am thankful to Valerie, Robert, the girls, Andy, the Israel Institute, and everyone who made this possible. You can watch the video of my piece BELONG NOT here
Oct. 7, 2019
Just announced – San Francisco Girls Chorus premiere!
Big event by the amazing San Francisco Girls Chorus! Fully-staged choral music and dance co-production featuring 30 dancers and 40 choristers. My work “Belong Not” is performed with 5 other leading composers, such as Steve Reich and Meredith Monk.
details here.
Oct. 5, 2019
Upcoming 2 New Orchestral Works
Next month is strongly awaited for holding two premiers of new orchestral works: Ode to Jerusalem for the Jerusalem Symphony, and Sooner and Later song cycle for Israel Chamber Orchestra.
check details for Ode to Jerusalem
and for Sooner and Later
Oct. 5, 2019
USA premiere of Hidden Place
Extremely excited for Quartetto di Cremona North American premiere of Hidden Place at The Wallis, Beverly Hills!
info and last tickets at their website here
Oct. 5, 2019
Center for New Music San Francisco debut
First performance at Center for New Music, SF of Silences Trio for clarinet, viola and piano, but Slow Wave Trio.
info at their website here
Sep.15, 2019
Artistic cooperation in Cite des Arts – Sacha Terrat
Working together with Sacha, musician from New Caledonia, arranging and performing one of his songs.
Concert at Cite des Arts Auditorium, 18 Rue L’Hotel de Ville,
Paris
July 30, 2019
A Paris after end-of-the-year concert of my students
After a big production of 16 performers and 11 pieces by my composition students, it’s time for the next adventure – 6 months residency at Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris. Recordings from the concert will be found at the TEACHING section of the website.
Stay tuned for more adventures!
March 22, 2019
First Concert in Hong Kong
Asian Debut in the glorious Hong Kong Arts Festival – specially arranged and re-written for string quintet, ‘Cannot Go Back’ was enthusiastically performed by Quartetto di Cremona and Dimitri Hoffmann.
click here to listen.
March 11, 2019
Residency in Magnes Museum, Berkeley University CA
Excited and anticipating the awaited residency at University of California, Berkeley. Going to give some talks about music, teach, and most importantly create some new music, both for Magnes Museum and for San Francisco Girls Chorus. in picture: giving a class with Prof. Francesco Spagnolo, Magnes Museum, Berkeley University. Thank you both Israel Institute and Francesco for making this happen!
October 25, 2018
Cremona Quartet sold-out premiere in Stockholm Konserthuset
Looks like both the audience, the organizers, the performers, the critics and the composer were happy with the sold-out concert in Stockholm Konserthuset. Most beautiful performance of the new string quartet “Hidden Place” was met with great warmth, as opposed to the weather outside the hall. Check the critic in the ‘PRESS’ section. 
September 28, 2018
Israeli Music Fest – Turquoise Project premiere
It is uneasy to exaggerate the excitement of writing, performing and producing a whole new program of fusion works for brass and rhythm section (accompanied by singer at times), which was premiered at the Israeli Music Festival, at the new beautiful Elma Arts Complex, Zichron Yacov. Waiting for the videos and recordings to share with you.
July 28, 2018
New piece with Cremona Quartet
In the too-hot-Israeli-August what is better than taking some break from Tel-Aviv and going to Italy to rehearse with the world-class Cremona Quartet? Super excited for working with these amazing musicians on my new piece for a concert in Stockholm, Sweden. More details to be announced later…
July 28, 2018
Warsaw Concerts in August
The wonderful Hashtag Ensemble is having a refreshing summer series of concerts at unexpected sites. Check them out during August, including “Phantom of the Fuge”, which they perform groovy!
July 01, 2018
Radio Show
Here’s a link to the radio show at Voice of Music – lots of music and an interview (Hebrew) with Uri Golomb:
June 15, 2018
Trio Rehearsal in most beautiful residence
Michael Guttman, Jing Zhao and Nadia Okrusko rehearse the trio at French Ambassador residence in Copenhagen. Take a look and a listen!
May 14, 2018
Copenhagen Festival – Chamber Music Concert
Copenhagen Festival, Denmark, is holding a wonderful chamber music concert, and is kindly programmed the piano trio of mine to be part of it. Performed by the superb Michael Guttman, Jing Zhao, Nadia Okrusko.
June 5th, 2018.
Come listen to the whole fest and catch me there!
April 26, 2018
Montevideo Philharmonic Orchestra celebrates 60 years, as well as 70 years to the state of Israel.
Special concert includes works by Gershwin, Bernstein, Prokofiev, Ben-Haim and my flute concerto, performed by Noam Buchman (who also premiered it), under the musical director and conductor of the orchestra, maestra Ligia Amadio.
April 28th, Teatro Solis, Montevideo, Uruguay.
March 1, 2018
Polin Festival 2018 was a great and memorable experience!
While all the concerts were SOLD OUT, the performances of my trio by Michael Guttman, Jing Zhao and Kathleen Tagg, as well as the performance of Phantom of the Fuge by the energetic and excellent Hashtag Ensemble were top notch!
Martha Argerich’s participation added some unforgettable flavor to the whole event.
Cannot wait for Polin Festival 2019!
November 16, 2017
The premiere was a blast!
So grateful for the dedicated musicians – the conductor, the soloist, the orchestra! We are editing the recording now and will put it on site really soon, check up soon!
November 6, 2017
What is a Concerto in the 21st century?
We are all soloists in the concerti of our lives, and music is their abstract mirror image…
After months of intense work and philosophical thoughts about flute, the rehearsing time has come! The wonderful Maestra Ligia Amadio and the renowned flutist Noam Buchman are working on my score, to make the notes sound as good as possible. Come listen on November 15th at the Jerusalem Theater!
March 18, 2017
Kronos Quartet
So Kronos Quartet re-issued the album recording of the four pieces they commissioned for Under30 project – a worldwide open competition for young composers under the age of 30. As the forth recipient, I wrote “Widows & Lovers”, a very complex and live-technology-involving piece.
From two days ago, the album is available for a purchase online on Bandcamp! I am really happy and excited, since until now you could only purchase it in the United States.
Give it a listen, all three movements are very different from each other. I will tell the story behind them in a separate post. Anyhow, you gotta follow Kronos Quartet if you are not already! Always fun and fresh.
March 15, 2017
Six pieces for string quartet
This week was full of [long awaited] excitement and hard work. I recorded six pieces for string quartet – that are part of the upcoming album.
The work with them was pure fun! These guys just got what I need – uncompromising professionalism, rich experience with music in variety of genres, and good spirit. We understood each other from first sight (‘prima vista’), and I must say it does not always happen, so it is extremely rewarding experience for a composer.
Cannot wait to upload some videos with music.