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Selected compositions (after 2000)

(all works previously commissioned, performed and recorded, except where noted. For a list of works before 2000, contact Oded Zehavi)

 

Orchestra

 

"Concerto No. 2"/flute, orchestra, 2018, 18'.

"The Mighty and Enlightened" [Adir veNaor]/2 rock vocalists, chamber orchestra, 2014, 15'.

"Wanderers" [Ashrei HaZorim]/mixed choir, 4 pianos, chamber orchestra, 2013, 14'.

"Rock" [Sela]/symphony orchestra, 2009, 11'.

"Concerto No.1"/flute, orchestra, 2009, 20'. **Recording only** 

"Evening, City, Garden" (3 stories from a small city) [Erev, Ir, Gina]/voice, symphony orchestra, 2009, 20'.

"Gift" [Shai]/chamber orchestra, 2009, 13'.

"Kyrie" [Slikhot]/chamber orchestra, 2007, 7'.

"Lihoraz: Psalm 131"/chamber orchestra (2/2/2/2//2//0//strings), 2007, 13'.

"Concerto for mandolin and Andalusian Orchestra"/mandolin solo, oboe, accordion, arabic violin, darbuka, strings (minimum 8/6/4/3/2), 2006-7, 25'.

"Symphony #1"/(2/2/2/2//2/4/3/0//timp+2//harp//strings), 2004, 25'. 

"Night Music" [Musikat Laila]/chamber orchestra, 2003, 11'. 

 

 

Chamber

 

"Bird of Paradise"/flute, cello, percussion and piano, 2012, 14'.

"They Shall Beat Their Swords"/mezzo-soprano, oboe, cello, percussion and piano, 2010, 23'.

"Songs of an Old Poet"/tenor, counter-tenor, flute, violin, viola, cello electric guitar and percussion, 2008, 32'.

"Farewell Trio"/piano, violin and cello, 2006, 12'.

"Two Songs without Words"/flute and piano, 2005, 7'.

"Roadblock" [Makhsom]/2 violins and timpani, 2005, 7'.

"Grace" [Khesed]/viola and piano, 2004, 12'.

"Vineyard" [Kerem]/clarinet, violin, cello and piano, 2004, 11'.

"Intermezzo"/mandolin quartet, 2003, 19'. (First prize for best composition at the International Plucked Strings competition, Spain)

"White" [Lavan]/piano trio, 2003, 6'.

"Autumn" [Stav]/string trio, 2002, 14'.

"Rain" [Geshem]/flute solo, 2001, 7'.

"String Quartet No. 2", 2001, 24'.

"Song of Merit" [Shir Hamaalot]/woodwind quintet, 2001, 14'.

"String Quartet No. 1", 2001, 23'.

"Seagull"/violin and piano, 2001, 9'.

"Tzur"/flute and ensemble (1/2/1/1/1/1/1/0/percussion (2), piano, 1/1/1/1/1), 2000, 19'.


Vocal 

 

"Sound" [Tzlil]/choir, audience, flute, clarinet, french horn, string trio and piano, 2014, 15'.

"Through Glass Cubes"/soprano, flute, horn, percussion, text by Hamutal Bar-Yosef, 2014, 25'.

"Stabat Mater'/children's choir, 2013, 5'.

"Peace Unto You" [Shalom Eleichem]/mixed choir, 2012, 5'.

"Psalm 121"/children's choir, 2007, 3.5'.

"Lihoraz: Psalm 131"/children's choir, 2007, 4'.

"Like a Small Sad Bird"/song cycle for soprano and piano, 2006, 11'.

"The Poet and the Muse"/dramatic episode for soprano, narrator and chamber orchestra, 2006, 16'.

"Supplication" [Bakashot]/women's (or children's) choir, 2005, 10'.

"Dawn" [Shakhar]/ethnic singer and orchestra, 2004, 25'.

"Evening Wind" [Nefas]/voices and percussion, 2004, 23'.

"Infancy's Dawn" [Shakhrut]/oboe and voices, 2004, 14'.

"6 Interludes"/oboe and folk choir, 2004, 9'.

"Pirate Love"/children's choir, 2003, 4'.

"Two Shakespeare Sonnets"/soprano and piano, 2003, 9'.

"Pieta"/Baritone and chamber orchestra, 2003, 14'.

"Earth" [Adama]/choir and chamber orchestra, 2002, 31'.

"4 Ladino Songs"/alto, clarinet, string quartet, 2002, 9'.

"My Little Kid" [Gedi Gadai]/children's choir and piano, 2001, 4'.

"Fantasy"/cello, 2 mezzo sopranos and alto, 2001, 6'.

 

Media
 

"Natural Life"/music for prison documentary by Tirtza Even, 2013, CDMPF Award Winner 2014, Prisoner Justice Prize At the Seattle Social Justice Film Fesitval, 

WPBT2 (PBS) Silvers Award for Independent Film at the 2015 Women's International Film & Arts Festival, Winner of Honorable Mention and Special Jury Mention

for Activism in Cinema Brooklyn Northside Film Festival.

"Once upon a Wall"/music for video installation by Tirtza Even, 2008, First Prize for Best Video at Syracuse International Film Festival, 60'.

"Songs of an Old Poet"/DVD, music set to texts by Meron Izakson. David Feldman; counter-tenor, Gabi Sade; tenor. Kfar Blum Chamber music days, 2008, 32'.

"All the Instruments"/introducting orchestral instruments to children, Hop National Cable TV, 2008 (3' multiple episodes).

"Halleluja"/electronic music, 2006, Vox Novus 60X60 Festival, NYC, 1'.
"Musical Journey to Israel"/Mezzo Cable TV (FR), 2006 [excerpt from "Farewell Trio" (Jerusalem Trio) with personal interview], 53'07".

Allied Arts

 

"Windmill" and "The Map"/soundtrack for MakesounD (Ayelet Cohen, choreographer), 2015, 30'.

​"Sweat"/soundtrack for Beta dance company (Ethiopian folk song fragments, vocalizations and percussion), 2014, 23'. 

"YL" /piano, electronics, 2011, 13'.

"It's a Small World",/incidental music for a monodrama, texts by Vanessa Ochs, 2009, 10'.

"Mounds" [T'luliyot]/dramatic chamber oratorio for two actors, singer and electronic music, 2006, 31' (texts: Amharic, Hebrew (Talmud)).

"Drummer of the Revolution"/voice, vocal ensemble, percussion, electronics, 2005, 7'.

"Lacrimosa"/voices, string trio, flute and percussion (text:  Amharic Ethiopian folk poem 'The Journey', for the dance 'What the Shoulders Tell', 2005, 31'.

"Perilous Night" [Laila Lo Barur]/narrator, flutes and percussion (soundtrack), 2005, 19'.

"Desert Wind" [Nefas]/soundtrack for Eskesta Dance Theatre (voices, percussion), 2003, 20'.

"May 2002:  Introduction and Three Songs"/narrator, string quartet, electronic treatments, 2002, 18'. 

"Lotus Flower" [Perakh Halotus]/narrator, viola, cello, piano, percussion, 2001, 25'.

 

photo by Rafi Eshel

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