OFRA YITZHAKI
October 2022
New CD-Recording:
The Piano Works of Josef Bardanashvili
Recording session at the Clairmont Hall, Tel Aviv. Photography: Helen Yanovsky.
Recording the entire piano music of Georgian-Israeli composer Josef Bardanasvhili.
At the Clairmont Hall, Tel Aviv University, with sound engineer Rafi Eshel.
Supported by the Israeli Ministry of Culture.
At the Clairmont Hall, Tel Aviv University, with sound engineer Rafi Eshel.
Supported by the Israeli Ministry of Culture.
September 2022
RECORDING FOR GERMAN RADIO (HESSISCHER RUNDFUNK):
THE PIANO WORKS OF JOSEPH TAL
Hessischer Rundfunk (German Radio of Hessen)
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Recording the piano works of the great German-born Israeli composer Joseph Tal (1910-2008). Most of the works were never recorded, some never performed. The recording is a cooperation of Deutschlandfunk Kultur (Berlin) and Hessischer Rundfunk (Frankfurt).
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July 2021
Artistic Director of the Upper Galilee Voice of Music Festival
Voice of Music in the Upper Galilee - Logo
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Ofra Yitzhaki appointed Artistic Director of Israel's oldest and largest chamber music festival.
The festival, founded by pianist Idith Zvi, is now at its 37th season. It takes place every summer in Kibbutz Kfar Blum at the very north of Israel. March 2021
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Haydn Concerto with the Jerusalem Symphony and Doron Salomon
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Finally back to the real concert hall - performing Haydn's Concerto with the Jerusalem Symphony and the wonderful Doron Salomon.
Click here to watch.
Click here to watch.
February 2021
Jury Member, Pnina Salzman Competition for Young Pianists
December 2020
Online Recital for the Israel Music Fest -
Piano Music by Josef Tal
Performing Josef Tal's Concerto No. 5 for Piano and Electronics
September 2020
Senior Lecturer at the Tel Aviv University
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Ofra Yitzhaki appointed Senior Lecturer at the Tel Aviv University, Buchmann-Mehta School of Music, Piano Department
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JUNE 2nd, 2020
DUE TO CORONA REQUIREMENTS, LIVE CONCERT-LECTURE OVER ZOOM
TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF ARTS, DEAN'S LECTURE SERIES:
CONCERT-LECTURE
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"I tried to be a part of it all and still be myself" -
The Piano Music of Josef Tal Ofra Yitzhaki will be giving a concert-lecture about Josef Tal, one of Israel's foremost composers. As part of the lecture, Yitzhaki will perform several piano works by Tal and by other Israeli composers of his time. Click here to watch. |
CANCELLED DUE TO CORONA LIMITATIONS
JUNE 6th, 2020
ISRAEL FESTIVAL , JERUSALEM
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Solo piano and chamber music by Israeli composers Irena Svetova and Michael Wolpe, as part of the Israel Festival 2020. Eden-Tamir Music Center, Jerusalem. Click for details.
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CANCELLED DUE TO CORONA LIMITATIONS
MAY - JUNE 2020
RECITALS IN TEL AVIV AND HAIFA:
THE PIANO MUSIC OF JOSEPH TAL
Joseph Tal at his electronic music studio in Jerusalem
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Ofra Yitzhaki will be performing piano works by Joseph Tal, in preparation for her upcoming German-radio recording of his music:
Haifa University, Music Department: ContComp Festival, 17.5.2020 Tel Aviv University, Buchmann-Mehta School of Music, 10.6.20 Click for details. MAY 14, 2020
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Together with dear colleagues Michal Tal, Joseph Bardanashvili, Oded Zehavi and Moshe Zorman, all of whom served on the jury to choosing the two obligatory Israeli compositions to be played by all participants of the upcoming Rubinstein Competition. To read more, please click here.
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CANCELLED DUE TO CORONA LIMITATIONS
APRIL 24, 2020
CHAMBER MUSIC AT "HATEIVA", TEL AVIV:
WOLFGANG RIHM'S "CHIFFRE IV"
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Perfroming Wolfgang Rihm's "Chiffre IV" (1984) with clarinetist Danny Erdman and cellist Ella Toovy, as part of the "Before and After" series at HaTeiva, moderated by Dr. Assaf Shelleg. For details click here.
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MARCH 2020
BACH'S "WELL-TEMPERED CLAVIER" WITH THE ISRAELI VOCAL ENSEMBLE
A special concert presenting Bach's Preludes and Fugues from the Well-Tempered Clavier: Some performed at the piano by Ofra Yitzhaki, some sung by the Israeli Vocal Ensemble conducted by Yuval Ben-Ozer, some performed by the Tel Aviv Saxophone Quartet. A real Bach-Party!
Haifa, Rappaport Hall, 7.3.2020
Ra'anana Performing Arts Center, 24.3.2020 CANCELLED DUE TO CORONA LIMITATIONS
Tel Aviv Museum, 27.3.2020 CANCELLED DUE TO CORONA LIMITATIONS
Haifa, Rappaport Hall, 7.3.2020
Ra'anana Performing Arts Center, 24.3.2020 CANCELLED DUE TO CORONA LIMITATIONS
Tel Aviv Museum, 27.3.2020 CANCELLED DUE TO CORONA LIMITATIONS
JANUARY 2020
CHOPIN 'S PIANO CONCERTO NO. 2
SOLOIST WITH HAIFA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
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Herzliya Center for Performing Arts; Renchang Fu, Conductor. Click for details.
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DECEMBER 2019
BACH-SCARLATTI RECITALS IN GERMANY
Concert location: Evangelical Church of Bad Soden, Germany.
NOVEMBER 2019
ISRAELI MUSIC AT THE POTSDAM MUSEUM, GERMANY
Concert location: Potsdam Museum, Germany.
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Recital with Mimi Sheffer, Soprano, as part of the "Living Music 2019" Concert Series. Piano works by Verdina Schlonsky, Joseph Tal, Emma Shiffrin and Irena Svetova.Songs to texts by Else-Lasker Schueler, composed by Joseph Tal, Eyal Bat, Stella Lerner, Wilhelm Rettich and Erich Walter Sternberg. For details click here.
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OCTOBER 2019
JURY MEMBER, CHOOSING ISRAELI COMPOSITIONS
FOR THE RUBINSTEIN COMPETITION
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Together with some dear colleagues (Michal Tal, Joseph Bardanashvili, Oded Zehavi and Moshe Zorman), serving on the jury to choose the two (out of fifty) obligatory Israeli compositions to be played by all participants of the upcoming Rubinstein Competition. To read more, please click here.
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SEPTEMBER 25, 2019
MOURNING THE DEATH OF MY GREAT TEACHER,
MAESTRO PAUL BADURA-SKODA
Maestro Paul Badura-Skoda
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The wonderful lessons in his Vienna apartment will always remain one of the greatest treasures of my life. His kindness and generosity will accompany me wherever I go. His piano playing will keep reminding me (and many others) of all that is good and beautiful in this world. Remembering his with endless gratitude.
To listen to his masterful, moving recording of the 2nd movement of Schubert's Sonata D. 664, please click here. |
SEPTEMBER 2019
ISRAELI MUSIC FEST:
RECITAL AT THE TEL AVIV MUSEUM
Ofra Yitzhaki at the Tel Aviv Museum, Israeli Music Fest. Photo: Yoel Levi
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A Special Program by Ofra Yitzhaki for the Israeli Music Fest, curated by Prof. Oded Zehavi: Three great Israeli piano sonatas - by Tzvi Avni, Mordecai Seter and Joseph Tal -complemented by three Piano Sonatas by Domenico Scarlatti. For details click here.
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MAY 2019
BACH 'S ENTIRE WELL-TEMPERED CLAVIER, BOOK II
CLAIRMONT CONCERT HALL, TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY
Concert Poster. Design: Motti Pearlman.
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A project of over ten year has come to completion:
The entire second book of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier, 24 Preludes and Fugues. For details click here. For a concert recording click here. |
MAY - JUNE 2019
CONCERTS WITH THE ISRAELI CHAMBER PORJECT
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Joining the excellent players of the "Israeli Chamber Project" for two concerts of music by Israeli Composers Irena Svetova, Moshe Zorman, Hagar Kadima and Aharon Charlap. Great pleasure to play with violinists Itamar Zorman, Matan Dagan and Nitai Zori, clarinetist Tibi Cziger and cellist Michal Korman.
Israel Conservatory of Music (presented by Israel's Composers' League) - Click for details. Eden-Tamir Music Center, Jerusalem (as part of the Israel Festival) - Click for details. |
MARCH 2019
WORLD PERMIERE OF MENACHEM ZUR'S PIANO CONCERTO
SOLOIST WITH THE ISRAEL CONTEMPORARY PLAYERS
Ofra Yitzhaki with conductor Leo Warynski, after performing Zur's Concerto. Photo: From video by Yoel Culiner Creative Center.
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Ofra Yitzhaki playing the World Premiere of Menachem Zur's Piano Concerto, as soloist with the Israel Contemporary Players and fantastic French conductor Leo Warynski. Concerts at the Tel Aviv Museum and the Jerusalem Music Center. Details here. For concert recording click here.
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MARCH 2019
"COMPOSER - PLACE - CREATION":
RECITAL WITH ACTOR DORI ENGEL AT THE TEL AVIV MUSEUM
Ofra Yitzhaki performing Ben-Zion Orgad's "Tonegesture" at the Tel Aviv Museum. Photo: From video by Shaly Boharon.
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Piano works by Israeli composers Wisam Gibran, Habib Hassan Touma, Verdina Schlonsky, Ben-Zion Orgad, Lior Navok and Joseph Tal, side by side with texts from the composers' own letters, prose and poetry. A combination of music and texts, all dealing with the composers' relation to their own place. For details click here.
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NOVEMBER 2019
BARTOK PIANO CONCERTO No. 3
SOLOIST WITH THE RAMAT GAN ORCHESTRA
Ofra Yitzhaki with the Ramat Gan Orchestra, after performing Bartok's 3rd Concerto. Photo: From video by the Ramat Gan New Music Center.
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Bartok's great virtouso Piano Concerto, with Ramat Gan Orchestra and conductor Alex Wasserman. Details.
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OCTOBER 2019
SCHUBERT-LISZT "WANDERER" FANTASY
SOLOIST WITH THE JERUSALEM SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Ofra Yitzhaki and Saleem Aboud Ashkar after performing the "Wanderer Fantasy". Photo: From video by Rachel Suranyi.
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Liszt's virtuoso arrangement of Schubert's "Wanderer Fantasy", performed by Ofra Yitzhaki as solist with the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, conducted by the wonderful Saleem Aboud Ashkar. A part of the opening concert of the "Psanterim" ("Pianos") Festival at the Jerusalem Theater, currated by Prof. Michael Wolpe. For details click here.
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OCTOBER 2019
"SYMPHONY ON A FRENCH MOUNTAIN AIR" BY D'INDY
SOLOIST WITH HAIFA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
With conductor Claudio Cohen after the performance. Photo: Amos Talmon.
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"Symphony on a French Mountain Air" for Piano and Orchestra is probably the most widely known work by French romantic composer Vincent D'Indy (1851-1931). In this work D'Indy captures the musical spirit of rural France, and complements it with Wagnerian late-romantic harmonies. This special work was performed by Ofra Yitzhaki and the Haifa Symphony Orchestra, under the batton of Brazilian conductor Claudio Cohen. For details click here.
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2018-2019 SEASON
CONCERTS WITH THE "INTERNATIONAL TRIO"
Ofra Yitzhaki, Orit Orbach and Adiel Schmidt performing at the Ein Karem Music Center. Photo: From video by the Ein Karem Music Center.
2018-2019 SEASON
BACH RECITAL SERIES WITH HARPSICHORDIST ASSAF SOMMER
EDEN-TAMIR MUSIC CENTER, EIN KAREM, JERUSALEM
Corrente from Bach's Partita No. 6, in Bach's own handwriting.
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Eight complete recitals devoted to the keyboard music of Johann Sebastian Bach, played by Ofra Yitzhaki on piano and the fantastic Assaf Sommer on harpsichord. The recitals include Bach's entire "Well-Tempered Clavier" (book I and II), as well as his Six Partitas, French Overture, Italian Concerto, Four Duets, and more. For details click here.
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2018-2019 SEASON:
"HOMMAGE TO FRANK PELLEG"
Concert poster, by Israel Music Institute
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Frank Pelleg (1910-1968) was a Prague-born Czech-German Jewish pianist, conductor and composer, who immigrated to Israel in the 1930s. Since his immigration he became a major force in local music life and a pionier both in the performance of Israeli piano music and in the performance of Bach's keyboard works. In 2018, fifty years after his death, Ofra Yitzhaki was asked by Prof. Oded Zehavi, Artistic Director of the Israel Music Fest, to perpare and perform a recital program as an Hommage to Frank Palleg. The recital program includes works by Israeli composers Mordecai Seter, Verdina Schlonsky, Arthur Gelbrun and Paul Ben-Haim, as well as keyboard works of J.S. Bach.
Performance at the Jerusalem Music Center - Click here. Performance at the Hecht Concert Hall, Haifa University - Click here. Performance at the Israeli Conservatory, Tel Aviv - Click here. To hear Ofra Yitzhaki talking about the program (in Hebrew) - Click here. |
AUGUST 2018
MASTERCLASS FOR YOUNG PIANISTS
"MUSIKSCHULE CLAVINA" , FRANKFURT, GERMANY
Masterclass invitation by Musikschule Clavina.
JUNE 2018
"FARAWAY ECHO":
CONTEMPORARY ISRAELI MUSIC RECITAL, TEL-AVIV UNIVERSITY
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Israeli piano music composed after 2000: Works by Joseph Bardanashvili, Betty Olivero, Ben-Zion Orgad, Lior Navok and Schlomo Gronich. For details click here.
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JUNE 2018
"HATIEVA" MUSIC MARATHON, TEL AVIV:
ART-SONGS TO TEXTS BY ELSE LASKER-SCHUELER
Flyer for Else-Lasker Schueler concerts at "HaTeiva", Tel Aviv
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Ofra Yitzhaki with singers Einat Aronstein, Ayelet Amots and Rona Shrira, performing Lieder by Paul Hindemith, Noam Sheriff , Ron Weidberg and Eyal Bat to texts by Else Lasker-Schueler. Click here for details.
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FEBRUARY 2018
RECITAL AT THE EILAT CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL
Performing with Dori Engel at the Eilat Chamber Music Festival. Photo: Maxim Reider.
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On February 9th, 2018 Ofra Yitzhaki will perform a piano recital at the prestigious Eilat Chamber Music Festival. The Program - "Two Homelands, One Piano" - includes works by five Israeli composers: Paul Ben-Haim, Joseph Tal, Erich Walter Sternberg, Max Brod and Karel Salmon. For an article about the program (in Hebrew, in "Calcalist"), please click here.
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2018-2019 SEASON
GUBAIDULINA, SCHOENBERG AND COPLAND
"HATEIVA", TEL AVIV
"Before and After" concert series poster, "HaTeiva".
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Ofra Yitzhaki will be the pianist for "Before and After" - a new concert series at Tel Aviv's "HaTeiva" hall, curated by musicologist and lecturer Dr. Assaf Shelleg. Each of the series' concerts will present one work from the modern chamber music repertoire, performed twice. In between the two performances, the audience will listen to a lecture about the work. Yitzhaki will perform Schoenberg's Songs Op. 2 with soprano Einat Aronstein, Copland's "Vitebsk" Trio with violinist Yael Barolsky and cellist Ella Toovy, and Gubaidulina's "Quasi Hoquetus" with bassoonist Richard Paley and violist Itamar Ringel. For details click here.
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DECEMBER 2017
BACH RECITALS IN FRANKFURT :
THE WELL-TEMPERED CLAVIER
Concert poster by Wicherngemeinde, Frankfurt.
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On December 23rd-26th Yitzhaki will play two Bach recitals in Frankfurt, Germany, including ten Preludes and Fugues from Bach's "Well-Tempered Clavier", Book II. The concerts will take place at the Frankfurt Music Library and at the Concert Hall of the Evangelical Chruch of Praunheim. In addition, Yitzhaki will take part in the "Meet the Artist" project of the Frankfurt municipality: She will visit a high school, play for the pupils and talk to them about her work. For details click here.
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JULY - OCTOBER 2017
PERFORMANCES WITH THE HAUSER TRIO
PAUL BEN-HAIM'S PIANO QUARTET IN BERLIN & JERUSALEM
Ofra Yitzhaki with the Hauser Trio at the Elisabeth Church, Berlin. Photo: Daniela Incoronato.
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The "Hauser Trio" - vilolinst Erez Ofer and viloist Yoram Youngerman and cellist Hillel Zori - join Ofra Yitzhaki for two performances Paul Ben-Haim's Piano Quartet.
Berlin performance: At the Elisabeth church, as part of "New Life Festival", curated by Mimi Sheffer. Details. Jerusalem performance: Jerusalem Music Center. Details. |
2017-2019
COMPETITION JURY MEMBER
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Ofra Yitzhaki regualrly serves as a Jury member in various piano and compsition competitions, such as the America Israel Cultural Foundation auditions, the Clairmont Competition, the Aviv Competitions, and the Israel Composition Competition.
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JULY 2017
SOLOIST WITH THE BERLIN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA:
JOSEPH TAL'S FIRST PIANO CONCERTO REVIVED
Performing Tal's Piano Concerto with the Berlin Symphony Orchestra. Photo: Daniela Incoronato.
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On July 16th, 2017, Yitzhaki performed Tal's First Piano Concerto with the Berlin Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Lior Shambadal. The work was composed in 1945, shortly after Tal's immigration from Berlin to Israel, and rarely performed afterwards. Berlin Tagesspiegel, 18.7.2017: "The supreme soloist Ofra Yitzhaki showed astonishing melodic qualities, without losing the force and harshness required by this musical work". For details click here.
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MAY 2017
"TWO HOMELANDS, ONE PIANO" :
PROGRAM PREMIERED IN TEL AVIV & BERLIN
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Yitzhaki's new program "Two Homelands, One Piano" for piano and actor was premiered at the Clairmont Concert Hall, Tel Aviv University, with actor Dori Engel (May 2017). A premiere of the German version of this program with actor Peter Pachl followed in July 2017. It took place at the Villa Elizabeth, Berlin, as part of the "New Life Festival", curated by Mimi Sheffer. The program presents piano music and texts by five major Israeli composers who immigrated in the 1930s from Germany to Israel. For details click here.
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2017 SEASON
RECORDING FOR GERMAN RADIO & CONCERTS:
SONGS OF PAUL BEN-HAIM
Performing Ben-Haim's songs with Mimi Sheffer at the Villa Elisabeth, Berlin. Photo: Daniela Incoronato.
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Ofra Yitzhaki joined soprano Mimi Sheffer to record Paul Ben-Haim's early songs for the German Radio in Berlin. Most of the songs, composed by Ben-Haim in Germany prior to his immigration to Israel, were still in manuscripts and published by the Israeli Music Institute especially for this recording. The recording was followed by concerts in Tel Aviv (Felicia Blumental Music Center), Jerusalem (National Library) and Berlin (Elisabeth Church). For details click here.
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DECEMBER 2016
WORLD PERMIERE: SCHLOMO GRONICH'S "THOUGHTS"
LEVINSKY COLLEGE OF EDUCATION, TEL AVIV
Ofra Yitzhaki moderating and performing at the world permiere of Gronich's "Thoughts", Levinsky College Auditorium. Photo: Levinsky College of Education.
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World premiere of a piano book - "Thoughts" - by renowned Israeli musician Schlomo Gronich. Ofra Yitzhaki premiered the works together with her piano students at the Music Education Department of the Levinsky College (Adaluz Khouriyeh, Hen Ben-Shoshan and Netanel Zargary) and with colleagues (Eyal Bat, Ruth Zori, Einat Fabrikant). Many thanks to the Israel Music Institute for its support of the event. For details click here.
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NOVEMBER 2016
YITZHAKI PERFORMS RAVEL'S "GASPARD DE LA NUIT"
Jerusalem Post article (by Barry Davies) about Yitzhaki's "Gaspard" performance.
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Ravel's "Gaspard de la nuit", widely considered the most virtuoso piano work ever composed, will be performed by Ofra Yitzhaki at "HaTeiva" Festival, Tel Aviv, on November 12th, 2016. The work, inspired by three poems by the symbolist French poet Aloysius Bertrand, depicts three scenes, all on the verge of dream and nightmare. It will be performed as part of a marathon devoted to art inspired by dream. To read the Jerusalem Post article "Living the Dream" about Yitzhaki's performance of the work, please click here.
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2016-2018 SEASONS
"PIANO ORIENTAL":
RECITALS WITH IRANIAN PIANIST ARISTO KHOSROBEIK
Ofra Yitzhaki and Aristo Khosrobeik after a concert at the Steinway House, Frankfurt am Main
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"Piano Oriental": A program designed and performed by Iranian pianist Aristo Khosrobeik and Israeli pianist Ofra Yitzhaki as a journey through the piano music of the Middle East. Program icndlues two-hands and four-hands piano works by composers from Iran, Turkey, and Israel: Fazil Say, Emanuel Melik Aslanian, Arno Babadjanian, Alexander Boskovich, Habib Hassan Touma, Joseph Bardanashvili and more.
Concert at Kultur unterm Dach, Alte Schlosserei Frankfurt Details Concert at the Steinway House, Frankfurt Details Concert at the Frei religiose Gemeinde Offenbach Details Concert at the Evangelische Geminde Mainz Details |
OCTOBER 2016
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JULY 2016
LAUNCHING OF THE MORDECAI SETER SOCIETY, TEL AVIV
Performing Seter's Piano Sonata at the Felicia Blumental Center. Photo: From video by Shali Boharon.
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The "Mordecai Seter Society" was launched in order to promote the musical legacy of Seter (1916-1994), one of Israel's greatest and most original composers. At the launching event, Ofra Yitzhaki performed two of his late piano pieces: Tryptique III (1985) and Piano Sonata (1982). In addition, she joined violinist Vera Veidman to perform one of Seter's early works: His Partita for Violin and Piano (1951).
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DECEMBER 2015
BACH RECITAL:
SANKT MAURITIUS CHURCH, FRANKFURT AM MAIN
Concert poster, Sankt Mauritius Church
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A complete Bach program: French Overture in B minor and eight Preludes and Fugues from the Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II. Details.
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2015-2016 SEASONS
"BETWEEN LOVE AND MADNESS":
A RECITAL FOR PIANO AND ACTOR
Johannes Brahms, Clara Schumann, Robert Schumann
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Piano works by Clara Schumann, Robert Schumann and Johannes Brahms, accompanied by texts from their letters. Among the works on the program: Robert Schumann's "Scenes from Childhood" and "Humoreske", Brahms's Piano Sonata in F minor, Clara Schumann's Romances and more. Concerts in Beit Yitshak "Evening Chamber Music" Series, Brigham Young University, Jerusalem (program in English) and Elma Center for the Arts, Zichron-Ya'akov. For details click here.
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MAY 2015
"MOZART'S LONG WAY TO VIENNA":
NEW MOZART PROGRAM FOR PIANO AND ACTORS
Concert flyer, Felicia Blumental Music Festival
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A new program written by Ofra Yitzhaki, including chamber music and piano works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his father Leopold Mozart and accompnied by readings from their correspondence. Ofra Yitzhaki is joined in this program by Dori Engel (stage director and acting as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart), Yehoyachin Friedlander (as Leopold Mozart) and the Tel Aviv Woodwind Quintet. The program will be performed at the Tel Aviv Museum (as part of the Felicia Blumenthal Music Festival) and at the Jerusalem Theater ("Etnachta" Concert Series). For details click here.
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2015-2017 SEASONS
LEVINSKY COLLEGE OF EDUCATION, TEL AVIV :
CURATOR OF A NEW A CONCERT & LECTURE SERIES
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In October 2015, a new concert series opened in Tel Aviv: The Faculty Forum of the Music Education Department at the Levinsky College of Education. The series, established and curated by Ofra Yitzhaki in collabration with Faculty Dean Prof. Moshe Epstein, presents twenty-eight events every season. The program includes concerts showcasing different musical styles, meetings with leading Israeli composers (in collaboration with the Israel Music Institute), student performances, and guided discussions on topics of music education and musicology.
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2015-2016 SEASON
COLLABORATION WITH THE TEL AVIV QUINTET:
MOZART'S QUINTET FOR PIANO AND WINDS
With the Tel Aviv Quintet at the Tel Aviv Museum. Photo: From video by Yoel Culiner.
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Ofra Yitzhaki joined the wonderful players of the Tel Aviv Quintet to perform Mozart's Quintet (which he himself condisered to be his best work!).
Igal Kamimka/ Dmitry Malkin - Oboe, Danny Erdman - Clarinet, Nadav Cohen - Bassoon, Itamar Leshem - French Horn. Concerts at the Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv Tzavta Club and Levinsky College of Education. For details click here. For details click here. |
JANUARY 2016
ORANIENBURG SYNAGOGUE, BERLIN:
OPENING CONCERT OF THE "KOL" CONCERT SERIES
Ofra Yitzhaki performing Ben-Haim's Sonatina at the Oranienburger Synagogue, Berlin. Photo: Daniela Incoronato.
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Ofra Yitzhaki performing music by Mendelssohn, Bloch, Ben-Haim, Weill and other Jewish composers, both as a soloist and as a chamber musician with violinist Erez Ofer and soprano Mimi Sheffer.
For details click here. |
AUGUST 2015
BACH'S WELL-TEMPERED CLAVIER, BOOK II
KUNSTWERKSTATT ("ART GARAGE"), BOCHUM
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At the intimate atmosphere of this special concert hall in Bochum, two concerts of the entire second book of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier. Many thanks to Reinhardt and Anna Cebulla for their fantastic hosting and location! To read more, click here.
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MARCH 2015
TANSY DAVIES'S NEW PIANO CONCERTO "NATURE":
SOLOIST WITH THE ISRAEL CONTEMPORARY PLAYERS
Israel Contemporary Players at the Tel Aviv Museum with conductor Zsolt Nagy. Photo: Yael Yuhas
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New piano concerto 0f 2012, "Nature", by British composer Tansy Davies (b. 1973), performed by Ofra Yitzhaki as soloist with the Israel Contempoerary Players and conducted by Ilan Volkov. Concerts at the Tel Aviv Museum and the Jerusalem Music Center. For details click here.
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2014-2015 SEASON
"THE NIGHTINGALE IN LOVE":
FRENCH MUSIC RECITALS WITH FLUTIST MOSHE EPSTEIN
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Ofra Yitzhaki joins fantastic flutist Moshe Epstein for several perfromance of French flute & piano music. The program includes Poulenc's Flute Sonata, Piano Etudes by Debussy, Franck's well-known Violin Sonata in its flute version, and Couperin's charming piece "The Nightingale in Love". Concerts at the Levinsky College of Education and the Bar-Ilan University, as well as in various locations as part of the "Maestro" program, bringing culture to the Israeli perifphery. For concert details click here.
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OCTOBER 2014
LIGETI'S PIANO CONCERTO:
SOLOIST WITH THE ISRAEL CONTEMPORARY PLAYERS
Ofra Yitzhaki with conductor Zsolt Nagy, after performing Ligeti's Piano Concerto at the Tel Aviv Museum. Photo: Yael Yuhas
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Ligeti's Piano Concerto (1985), one of the greatest twentieth-century masterpieces for piano and orchestra, performed by Ofra Yitzhaki as soloist with wonderful conductor Zsolt Nagy and the fantastic Israeli Contemporary Players. Concerts at the Tel Aviv Museum and the Jerusalem Music Center.
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JUNE 2014
HESSENTAG FESTIVAL, GERMANY:
MOZART AND SCHUMANN RECITALS
Concert program: "From Love to Madness"
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Concert program: "Mozart's Long Way to Vienna"
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Ofra Yitzhaki was invited by the Hessentag Festival, Germany, to create and perform two piano recitals combining piano music and letters: One devoted to the music letters of Wolgfang Amadeus Mozart and his father, Leopold, the other to Robert and Clara Schumann and Johannes Brahms. Both recitals take place at Hessentag City, Bensheim, with actors Walter and Mathias Renneisen and Annika Martens. For more information, please click here.
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MARCH 2014
FRENCH INSTITUTE, BERLIN:
PIANO AND CHAMBER MUSIC
Playing Mendelssohn's "Songs without Words" in Berlin's French Institute. Photo: Keshet Kuenstleragentur.
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Ofra Yitzhaki performing music by Felix Mendelssohn, Ernest Bloch, Paul Ben-Haim, Alban Berg, Pablo Sarasate and more , both as a soloist and as a chamber musician with violinist Erez Ofer and soprano Mimi Sheffer. Concert hosted by the Keshet Music Agency, Berlin. For details click here.
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