Classical music

Keshet Eilon’s homecoming gala

Annual concert at Enav Center features Vadim Gluzman and Ensemble Finale

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Ensemble finale
DAVID GRIMAL: Music is about listening before you do anything else.

Renowned French violinist David Grimal brings harmony to Eilat

On stage in Eilat, David Grimal affirms his enduring conviction that musical harmony is a powerful path toward renewal, offering a truer vision for human connection.

|ByNERIA BARR
The Jerusalem Philharmonic Orchestra plays at the 2019 Pianos Festival.

Israel Philharmonic Orchestra to open 89th season in Tel Aviv

The country needed music, and the IPO management decided that live music was vital in raising soldiers and civilians' morale. “And this belief remains to this day,” they told the Post.

|BySARAH HERSHENSON
ASTRIG SIRANOSSIAN (cello)

2025 Jerusalem Chamber Music Festival to feature world-class artists

The Jerusalem International Chamber Music Festival returns with a celebration of quintets in September.

|ByNERIA BARR

Conductor Mälkki debuts with Israel Philharmonic

The concerts will include two symphonic tone poems: En Saga by Jean Sibelius and Le Poeme de l’extase by Alexander Scriabine, as well as Ernest Bloch’s Schelomo, Hebraic Rhapsody for cello.

JUNE 13, 2023BySARAH HERSHENSON
THE ISRAEL Philharmonic Orchestra.

The Israeli Vocal Ensemble is celebrating its 30th anniversary

The veteran choral troupe celebrates with a two-day festival in Zichron Yaakov

APRIL 28, 2023ByBARRY DAVIS
FRIEDER BERNIUS: Singing in an ensemble should be comparable with playing in an orchestra – the sound of the instruments.

Israeli musicians take center stage in Nicosia

APRIL 27, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Israeli musicians Gal Nyska (cello) and Ishay Shaer (piano) p

Ode to lost culture: Jewish influence in Polish classical music

A binational double-header salutes Jewish contributions to Polish artistic life

APRIL 14, 2023ByBARRY DAVIS
LUKASZ BOROWICZ

Die Fledermaus - the bat is landing in Israel

Thrills, spills and fun galore as a popular Strauss operetta rolls into town.

JANUARY 29, 2023ByBARRY DAVIS
Oded Reich and Tal Bergman in the roles of Gabriel von Eisenstein and Prince Orlofsky in Die Fledermaus by Strauss the Younger.

Young, talented and restless

Teenage British violinist Leia Zhu brings her precocious talents to Israel once again.

JANUARY 15, 2023ByBARRY DAVIS
YOUNG BRITISH violin phenomenon Leia Zhu.

Mélanie Laurent brings expertise to curtain raiser of this year’s Israeli Harp Competition

Laurent certainly put her heart, soul and hours of practice into her instrumental love, and made good progress.

DECEMBER 18, 2022ByBARRY DAVIS
MÉLANIE LAURENT: I had a very big crush on the sound.

Nazi-looted sheet music returned to modern heirs

Beethoven gave the sheet music to his secretary before it found its way to the wealthy Czechoslovakian Petschek family.

DECEMBER 9, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Beethoven’s handwritten manuscript for the fourth movement of his String Quartet in B-flat Major

Israeli Vocal Ensemble looks into affairs of the heart

“I think people will leave happy, but also with some useful advice about life and love.” Can’t be bad.

DECEMBER 3, 2022ByBARRY DAVIS
THE ISRAELI vocal Ensemble will be performing in Haifa, Ra’anana and Tel Aviv.

Taking a bow into Tel Aviv Soloists Ensemble's next wave

Violinist Yaakov Rubinstein kickstarts the Tel Aviv Soloists Ensemble’s new season.

NOVEMBER 19, 2022ByBARRY DAVIS
YAAKOV RUBINSTEIN: I was a classical music snob for many years but I am happy to say that I am coming out of that a little.