Orchestra

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.'

DECEMBER 2, 2025|ByLIRAN GURKIEWICZ

THE REVOLUTION Orchestra’s Roy Oppenheim (bottom) and Zohar Sharon.

Bach, unplugged with The Revolution Orchestra

The Revolution Orchestra turns toward Bach in a joyful new season blurring the lines between reverence and play.

NOVEMBER 17, 2025|ByNERIA BARR

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.

OCTOBER 23, 2025|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

An evening of Puccini opera in Jerusalem

Two operas will be featured in performances at the Jerusalem Theatre.

OCTOBER 19, 2025|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

Love and Majesty from the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra

The orchestra will perform the choral symphony Dialogues of Love, based on a work by the medieval Jewish rabbi Judah Leone Abarvanel.

FEBRUARY 8, 2024BySARAH HERSHENSON

AVNER DORMAN’S choral Symphony ‘Dialogues of Love’ will be performed for the first time by the IPO

Music for everybody in Eilat

This year’s Classicameri Festival spreads the fun musical word far and wide.

JANUARY 16, 2024ByBARRY DAVIS

CONDUCTOR, COMPOSER, pianist, and accordion player Omer Meir Wellber will lead the Classicameri Festival.

Jerusalem classic cellist performs 'moonlighting' solo concert

Talia Erdal will demonstrate where her extracurricular “moonlighting” activities are taking her on December 14, when she plays a solo concert at Mishkenot Sha’ananim.

DECEMBER 12, 2023ByBARRY DAVIS

TALIA ERDAL: ‘I’ve got enough to put on an evening of my music. But I still needed to find the guts to say my music is good enough to put out there.’

Integrative ensemble to perform on Hanukkah

The performance is dedicated to war evacuees from the Israel-Hamas conflict.

DECEMBER 6, 2023ByHANNAH BROWN

THE JERUSALEM Integrative Orchestra, which will be putting on a pop-rock music performance dedicated to war evacuees on the first night of Hanukkah

Israeli Andalusian Orchestra Ashdod tours the country during wartime

Various members of the ensemble have been traveling the length and breadth of the country, playing – for free – to audiences of all sizes and age groups, and at all kinds of venues, grand and modest.

NOVEMBER 14, 2023ByBARRY DAVIS

The Israeli Andalusian Orchestra Ashdod performs for internally displaced Israelis around the country.

The JSO’s ‘prayer for Israel’

The Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra offers some healing sounds

NOVEMBER 7, 2023ByBARRY DAVIS

Israel Camerata Jerusalem prepares for its 40th season of earnest instrumental endeavor

Forty years after he founded the Israel Camerata, Biron is very much still in the thick of things, guiding his music-playing wards through repertoires of practically any ilk going.

OCTOBER 3, 2023ByBARRY DAVIS