Ensemble Barocameri, established nearly six years ago, is led by conductor and musical director Avner Itai, and includes musicians, singers and instrumentalists, from all over Israel, whose desire is to make music they love, in the way they love to make music.
Uniquely, the ensemble’s repertoire includes works composed for orchestra, chorus, and soloists yet grants each participant the role of soloist, representing an instrument in the orchestra or a voice from the chorus. The ensemble meets regularly in Zichron Ya’akov, and rehearses in a homey, family-like atmosphere. The repertoire includes compositions for instruments and voices from different periods – Baroque, Classical music, and most especially – arrangements of Israeli songs and compositions.
Ensemble Barocameri performs all over Israel all year round , including in its major cities, Jerusalem, Tel-Aviv, Nazareth, as well as in the peripheries, mostly in kibbutzim; the ensemble also participates in music festivals, such as Abu-Gosh Vocal Music Festival and Kol Rina in the Upper Galilee
Avner Itai
Conductor and Musical Director, has been Israel’s foremost choral conductor for more than four decades, a status paralleled in his long tenure at the The Buchmann-Mehta School of Music at Tel Aviv University. Born in kibbutz Kfar Giladi in Upper Galilee, he was deeply influenced as a child by its rich musical activity, which retained a continuity with the choral traditions brought by earlier settlers from Europe and further developed on the ideological and cultural soil of Jewish Palestine and Israel.
Although he studied conducting at the Schola Cantorum in Paris, Itai began his professional life playing the oboe, becoming principal oboist of the Israel Chamber Orchestra. It was the American conductor Robert Shaw who inspired him to focus his activities on choral music and conducting. Itai was the conductor of the Ihud (Kibbutzim) Choir for more than thirty years, he founded and has since been conducting the Camaran Singers choir, and later the Collegium Tel-Aviv choir. With those ensembles he toured to great acclaim throughout the world, giving nearly fifty concerts annually. In addition, he was involved in conducting international projects, including the “Songs for Peace”, which toured Europe and feature sacred works of three religions as well as an Arabic choir from Israel.
Avner Itai conducted most of the leading Israeli orchestras. In 1999, he also conducted the Bochum Symphony orchestra (Germany), as well as a special CD production with the BBC Singers in London that was released during 2000. Six years ago he founded, with friends-musicians the Ensemble Barocameri for which he also compose vocal-instrumental music and arrangements.
More choirs of the 2018 Louis Lewandowski Festival
Adi Classical Young Choir, Israel
Adi Classical Young Choir at the New Vocal Ensemble was established in 2006 by Yishai Shteckler and Goni Bar Sela. Since 2009, it performs under the baton of its musical director, conductor Oded Shomrony. The choir performs in subscription series of Orchestras and various a cappella programs at HaMishkan LeOmanuyot HaBama, Abu Ghosh Festival, the Jerusalem Music Centre, the Tel Aviv Museum of the Arts, the Felicja Blumental Music Center and the Mormon University in Jerusalem.
Cecilia Ensemble, Israel
A new ensemble from the Moran Choirs group, the Cecila Ensemble, is comprised of eight outstanding solo vocalists from Israel.
The Ensemble was founded in 2016 by Naomi Faran, conductor and musical director of the Moran Choirs, to become the professional representative Ensemble, performing original and unique musical programs, in collaboration with the best composers from Israel and around the globe.
Chernivtsi Philharmonic Orchestra
The first concert by Symphony Orchestra took place in Chernivtsi in 26 November 1992. It was organized by the Honored Artist of Ukraine Viktor Kostryzh and the Head of Chernivtsi City Council Viktor Pavliuk. Since 2000 Chief Conductor and Art Director – Josyp Sozansky.
Festival DVD kaufen!
Alle Festival DVDs (Audio / Video) des Louis Lewandowski Festivals sind bei Hentrich & Hentrich, dem Verlag für jüdische Kultur und Zeitgeschichte erschienen. Die DVDs sind Aufzeichnungen der großen Abschlusskonzerte mit alle Ensembles des jeweiligen Jahres. Sprachen: deutsch und englisch.
SAXOFONQUADRAT
The four Berlin musicians transcend established musical genre boundaries and socially established concert habits: Saxofonquadrat transforms the classical concert hall into a bubbling jazz stage and the wicked scene club into a devout church.
THE MOSCOW MALE JEWISH CAPPELLA
The Male Choir of Cantorial Art Academy was established in 1989 with personal support from Mikhail Gorbachev, then president of the USSR, and assistance from the Russian Jewish Community and Joint Distribution Committee, an American Jewish charity. In 1998 the choir was renamed the Hassidic Cappella and based at the Moscow Maryina Roshcha Jewish Community.