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The Israeli Vocal Ensemble
Conductor Yuval Benozer
In Conversation with Arik: Yuval Benozer and Avivit Hochstadter (alt)

Prof. Arie Vardi hosts the Israeli Vocal Ensemble on the educational television program “Intermezzo with Arik” for an encounter of singing and conversation on vocal music.

Program duration: 27:04 minutes
The show aired on 12.8.18 on the Educational Television.

The Israeli Vocal Ensemble
Soprano Tom Ben Ishai
Conductor Yuval Benozer

Noam Sheriff: Missa Terra Sancta World premiere.

A Mass for the Holy Land, the last work by composer Noam Sheriff, winner of the Israel Prize, was written especially for the Israeli Vocal Ensemble. The work is bilingual-sung in Latin and Hebrew, as well as bi-religious, Christian and Jewish, and was inspired by the composer’s visit to the Solesmes Abbey in France, the center of Gregorian chant culture. This visit reinforced in Sheriff the understanding that Gregorian music, based in part on pentatonic scales, is remarkably similar to the Biblical Hebrew Cantillation accents. These connections and others are expressed in the unique work. Conductor: Yuval Benozer. 

Piece duration: 30:15 minutes.
Concert recorded at Tel Aviv Museum of Art in 24.5.18.

The Israeli Vocal Ensemble
Evergreen Band:
Michal Shachar, flutes, piano, melodica, voice; Moshe Avigdor, guitar; Gal Shachar, violin; Abe Doron, percussion
Conductor Yuval Benozer

The Israeli Vocal Ensemble together with Evergreen Band, specializing in Celtic music, in a concert of folk songs, dance rhythms, lyrical ballads, Scottish songs, and more. An exciting combination of the Celtic timbre with diverse Israeli and artistic roots.

Concert duration: 1:14:49 hours.
Concert recorded at Tel Aviv Museum of art in 15.5.17.

The Israeli Vocal Ensemble
Saxophone: Eyal Isaac
Guest Conductor: Franz Herzog (Austria)

Many poets and composers have written about light. From the sunlight of dawn to the starlight, the light of eternity and the light of God. Each of them saw in it different shades but they were all captivated by the magic of light that always heralds the exit from darkness, and tried to describe it through the music. An experience of lights and sounds with the Austrian conductor and composer Franz Herzog, who leads the Israeli Vocal Ensemble in a program of choral music that is full of light, hope and faith.

Concert duration: 1:18:13 hours.
Concert recorded at Tel Aviv Museum of Art, in 28.2.17.

The Israeli Vocal Ensemble
Guest Conductor: Robert Porco (USA)

Songs from great and beloved musicals

The Israeli Vocal Ensemble presents a slightly different classic: the popular American song. The American song as presented in Broadway musicals by composers such as Gershwin, Berlin, Richard Rodgers, Bernstein and others: major and influential composers in American music who took popular music as seriously as they treated “serious” classical music, and their songs became part of the canon that is known as the American Song Book. 

Concert duration: 01:00:02 hours.
Concert recorded at Tel Aviv Museum of Art in 28.1.15.