Orchestra
No whining and women: This Witches? Festival returns with a salute to female musicianship
The event was initiated by Jerusalem Baroque Orchestra (JBO) founder-conductor-artistic director David Shemer, with the JBO performing predominantly baroque scores.
A master musician: Michael Tilson Thomas’s compositional legacy
Arab-Jewish youth orchestra builds a unifying ‘East-West’ sound together
Bach Festival features contemporary dance and live baroque performances
Israeli Lior Navok wins prestigious Engel Prize for Ukraine war composition
Navok describes his 10-minute orchestral piece, 'Blue, Yellow, Smoke,' composed during the early days of the Russia-Ukraine War, as trying to 'capture the melancholic mood of war.'
Bach, unplugged with The Revolution Orchestra
The Revolution Orchestra turns toward Bach in a joyful new season blurring the lines between reverence and play.
Assaf Avidan goes orchestral with new show and album
the striking singer-songwriter is bringing his new and old music to Tel Aviv’s Cultural Center in January for a special show with the Jerusalem East & West Orchestra, conducted by Tom Cohen.
An evening of Puccini opera in Jerusalem
Two operas will be featured in performances at the Jerusalem Theatre.
Soothing the soul with hope and soprano Sharon Azrieli
The concert series is the result of a lifetime of musical search by opera singer and cantor Sharon Azrieli.
Jerusalem Baroque Orchestra premires fourth 'Witches?' festival, featuring Noam Gal
The festival focuses on the unique and often dark roles pushed on women in the context of witchcraft, self-expression, and social status.
Arrays of hope: Israel Festival's offerings in a year full of woes
This year’s festival opens in Jerusalem on July 16 under the aegis of returning artistic directors Michal Vaknin and Itay Mautner, and in the Galilee and Western Negev, through to August 1.
Lost music from Auschwitz performed after 80 years
The music Geyer documented was played for the first time in 80 years at London’s Bloomsbury Theatre on June 3-7, 2025.
Making musical ends meet, the annual Jerusalem East and West Festival shows the way
A wide-ranging slew of acts that will take the Sultan’s Pool stage, in the shadow of the Jerusalem Old City walls, later this week.
IPO joins forces with Munich Philharmonic
Lahav Shani, the IPO’s dynamic, young conductor, seized this period of national reconciliation between Germany and Israel for three special memorial concerts in Munich, Dortmund, and Dresden.
