The ensemble’s repertoire consists exclusively of works for orchestra, choir and soloists, with each participant playing the role of a soloist representing an instrument in the orchestra or a voice from the choir. 
The repertoire includes compositions for instruments and voices from different eras – baroque, classical and above all – arrangements of Israeli songs and compositions.
Ensemble Barocameri performs throughout the year all over Israel, including in the big cities such as Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Nazareth and in the outlying areas, mainly in kibbutzim; the ensemble also participates in music festivals such as the Abu-Gosh Vocal Music Festival and Kol Rina in the Upper Galilee.
Avner Itai
Conductor and Musical Director, has been Israel’s leading choral conductor for more than four decades, in parallel with his long tenure at the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music at Tel Aviv University.
Born in the kibbutz of Kfar Giladi in the Upper Galilee, he was strongly influenced as a child by the rich musical activities there.
Choral traditions, brought by settlers from Europe, had been preserved and further developed on the ideological and cultural ground of Jewish Palestine and Israel.
Although he studied conducting at the Schola Cantorum in Paris, Itai began his professional life with the oboe and became 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 conductor of the Ihud (Kibbutzim) Choir for over thirty years and has since founded and conducted the Camaran Singers Choir and later the Collegium Tel-Aviv Choir.
He toured the world with these ensembles with great success and gave almost fifty concerts a year.
He was also involved in international projects such as the “Songs for Peace”, which toured Europe and presented sacred works of three religions, as well as an Arab choir from Israel.
Avner Itai has conducted most of Israel’s leading orchestras.
In 1999 he conducted the Bochum Symphony Orchestra, as well as a special CD production with the BBC Singers in London, which was released in 2000.
Six years ago he founded the ensemble Barocameri with musician friends, for which he also composes and arranges vocal-instrumental music. Facebook “
