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Voices of Sepharad
Songs, Melodies and Memories of Jews from Spain
26 November 2006, 12.30pm - 1.45pm Purcell Room
Programme includes traditional Sephardi melodies specially arranged for cello; songs from the London Sephardi liturgy; excerpts from the Memoirs of Michel Behar from Istanbul , founder member of Holland Park Synagogue, London and classical masterpieces: Max Bruch's 'Kol Nidre' and Ernest Bloch's 'Prayer. The recital ends with Bendigamos – a popular Sephardic table hymn. £10, £8
Gemma
Rosefield cello
Gemma is a graduate of the Royal Academy of Music and has just completed her
M.Mus(Performance) at the Royal Northern College of Music. She made her Wigmore
Hall debut recital in 2004, and her Concertgebouw debut the following year.
Described by the Strad as 'a mesmerising musical treasure', she has recently
won the Tillett Trust 2006 Young Artists Platform. She has performed this year
both as a soloist and chamber musician at numerous festivals including Gower,
Harrogate , Oxford , Presteigne, Swaledale, Two Moors and Tous Fous de Mozart
in Brussels . Future plans include Elgar, Haydn, Schumann and Saint Saens concertos,
and recitals throughout the UK and in Europe.
Adam
Musikant cantor
Adam is the Honorary Chazan at the Spanish and Portuguese Jews’ Congregation
of London, a position he has held since January 2000. From the age of six,
he sang in the synagogue choir. Between the ages of eight and fourteen he trained
as a boy treble at the Royal Opera House and sang in operas and concerts in
the UK . In 1984 he travelled with the Royal Opera to Los Angeles to sing in
the Olympic Arts Festival. He has conducted services for many years - (at the
age of seventeen he took his first Yom Kippur service at Bevis Marks) – mostly
at Lauderdale Road Synagogue and occasionally at other Sephardi synagogues.
Recordings include pop and classical music, television, drama and most recently,
he has researched the music, created new editions of the sheet music and produced
a CD of melodies from the liturgy of the Spanish and Portuguese Congregation.
As a director of a financial trading company, Adam works hard to find the time
to devote to his love of chazanut, singing and golf.
Yvonne
Behar piano
Yvonne Behar is a musician teacher and writer and lives in London. She trained
at the Royal Academy of Music and continued her studies with international
concert pianist Martino Tirmo. She specializes in Sephardic music and song
and has given workshops and recitals at early music and Jewish festivals She
lectures on study programmes in Andalusia and has run courses on Judeo-Spanish
song at SOAS as part of the Jewish Song School. She was a consultant to Decca
Record Company and arranged the song 'Durme kerido Higico' on the CD 'My World'
for the international opera singer Angela Gheorghiu. She was pianist with the
London Jewish Male Choir for six years and toured with them to South Africa
and Poland . Yvonne has also written the educational programme for children
Out of Spain based on the history of the Jews from Spain (www.outofspain.com).
Some of today's programme is available on Gemma and Yvonne's CD "Prayer
and Songs without Words"(www.jewishmusic-jmd.co.uk)
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