The JMI Youth Big Band, directed by Sam Eastmond (Tzadik/Spike Orchestra), performed at a sold out Vortex Jazz Club in London last Sunday 10th December. It was the JMI Youth Big Band's 4th concert this year and coincided with the 4th Candle of Chanukah.
It is a fundamental principle in the pedagogy of the JMI Youth Big Band that musicians are able to express themselves and develop their individuality, whilst at the same time playing and learning Jewish Jazz together.
As we look forward with both pride and inspiration to the year ahead, we would like to share with you the outstanding brilliance of our young musicians with the bright light of raw talent that is Ben Krauss on Trombone performing Sam Eastmond's arrangement of Maoz Tzur.
תזמורת ירושלים מזרח ומערב - גיברלטר
הערב אנו נועלים את סדרת ״מנגנים הפוגה״ לתקופה הקרובה עם קונצרט אחרון בשידור בכורה - ״גיברלטר״.
הצטרפו אלינו למפגש מוזיקלי עוצמתי בין סגנון הפלמנקו מלא התשוקה למקצבי המגרב הסוחפים. יחד עם מאסטרו תום כהן והתזמורת יופיעו על הבמה האמנים הבינלאומיים בנג׳מין בוזגלו ויהודה ׳שוקי׳ שוויקי, רקדניות הפלמנקו המובילות שרון שגיא וקרן פסח וגיטריסט הפלמנקו מספרד פיטי קרייו
תזמורת ירושלים מזרח ומערב עם מאסטרו תום כהן מארחים את יסמין לוי - אדיו קרידה
צפייה מהנה
מיתרי הלבנט - תזמורת ירושלים מזרח ומערב בניצוחו של מאסטרו תום כהן מארחת את איציק ריקן, אביב בכר ועופר מזרחי
The Levant Strings - The East and West Jerusalem Orchestra under the direction of Maestro Tom Cohen hosts Itzik Ricken, Aviv Bacher and Ofer Mizrahi
We invite you to join us again this week for two hours of respite, and embark together on a liberating musical journey in the premiere broadcast » "Levant Strings" - a one-time celebration of music from Mesopotamia to the New World, with four masters (including our maestro, who marvels on the mandolin in an original piece written for the orchestra) , which are virtuosically detailed on unique and rare stringed instruments
Noga Ritter welcomes you to JMI's Big Mix on Thursday 19th October at Brunei Gallery SOAS.
The concert also features Kadialy Kouyate and Josh Middleton in a special collaboration.
Tickets via www.jmi.org.uk
Jerusalem Orchestra East & West - BARBICAN - London
Jerusalem Orchestra East & West
Sunday 5th February 2023
7:30 pm – 10:00 pm
Barbican Centre
£15 - 20
https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2023/event/jerusalem-orchestra-east-west
A unique force in the global music scene, The Jerusalem Orchestra East & West consists of musicians from varying religions, ethnicities and sectors, reflecting the diversity of Israeli society.
Bursting with rhythm and passion, this performance combines the high-energy musical style of the Berber tribes in North Africa with arrangements in the Orchestra's unique musical language, to transport listeners across genres into the realms of pop and jazz.
To accompany this performance, the master singer and instrumentalist Mehdi Nassouli will arrive from Morocco, bringing his three-stringed guembri as well as three musicians who play the qraqeb, a traditional percussion instrument, and sing responsively.
Performers
Tom Cohen – Artistic Director and Chief Conductor
Mehdi Nassouli – Lead vocals, gimbri, zorna
Koyos – Choir and qraqeb
Omri Mor – Piano
Jerusalem Orchestra East & West
Songs Of My Grandfathers
JMI Online are proud to bring you: “Songs of my Grandfathers” for this pre-High Holyday special concert.
Two grandfathers, both songwriters and as successful in their time as Andrew Lloyd Webber and Stephen Sondheim are today. Michael Alexander Willens, founder and conductor of the Kölner Akademie, is proud to be the grandson of both Alexander Olshanetsky and Herman Yablokoff. Both were among the most successful songwriters composing music for Yiddish theater musicals in New York during the first half of the 20th century.
Recorded as a live concert at Shalom-Musik.Koeln 2022, Michael Alexander Willens, brings these musical memories to life with this tribute to the music of his grandfather’s with a Broadway-style show band, featuring Mark Kovnatsky on Violin.
Performers
Shura Lipovsky: Singer
Roman Grinberg: Singer
Kölner Akademie
Michael Alexander Willens: idea & conductor
YAHRZEIT 70: WORDS – MUSIC – FILM
Wednesday 31st August
6:00 pm – 9:30 pm
https://www.jmi.org.uk/event/yahrzeit-70-words-music-film
JMI are proud to partner with Five Leaves Bookshop to bring you this event. On August 12th 1952, thirteen members of the Soviet Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee were murdered on the orders of Stalin. Join us to commemorate their 70th Yahrzeit.
S. Lozovskii, J. Juzefovich, Prof. B. Shimeliovich, I. Fefer, L. Kvitko, P. Markish, D. Bergelson, D. Hofstein, B. Zuskin, L. Talmi, I. Vatenberg, E. Teumin, and Ch. Vatenberg Ostrovska
Speakers: Gennady Estraikh, Professor, New York University & Dr Helen Beer, Lecturer Emerita, University College London
Music: Polina Shepherd
Introduction to the film by Igor Polesitsky
Followed by Song Searcher, a film about Moyshe Beregovsky, who recorded and studied the traditional music of Ukrainian Jewry in the 1920s, 30s and 40s and who was imprisoned in a Stalinist labour camp in 1950.
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