october 2024


5.10.24 | 20:00 | Assia Auditorium, Tel Aviv Museum of Art

Eti Vaknin Sober, Avigail Arnheim / Narrators

Meitar Ensemble

Hope Dies Last

Voices of October 7th - Testimonies and memories composed in music

In collaboration with Poem Balev concert series | Supported by the Israel Lottery Council for Culture & Arts


November 2024


2.11.24 | 20:30 | Studio Annette Tel Aviv

Meitar at Studio Annette

Pierre-André Valade / Conductor | Talia Herzlich / Violin

Meitar Ensemble

רוח رُوح

Naama Perel-Tzadok Waking up the Dead Sea, for ensemble and electronics * | Amit Buium Nothing in all beneath heaven is so soft and weak as water, for ensemble and electronics * | Hugues Dufourt Le Paysage aux trois arbres d’après Rembrandt * | Eitan Steinberg Motet a 6 * | Jörg Widmann Etude III, for violin solo | Eli Korman רוח رُوح, for flute ensemble *

In collaboration with the Polyphony Conservatory, Nazareth and the Israel Conservatory of Music, Tel Aviv | Supported by the Eric Stokes Fund, Earth's Best in Tune, SACEM and the Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung


4.11.24 | 14:30 | Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance

Pierre-André Valade / Conductor

Meitar Ensemble

Hugues Dufourt Le Paysage aux trois arbres d’après Rembrandt *

Supported by SACEM and the Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung


10.11.24 | 20:00 | BYU Jerusalem Center

Meitar Ensemble

Francis Poulenc Sonata for clarinet and piano | Béla Bartók Contrasts | Igor Stravinsky Suite from L'Histoire du Soldat


25.11.24 | 19:00 | Schauspiel Frankfurt, Germany

Eti Vaknin Sober, Avigail Arnheim / Narrators

Meitar Ensemble

Hope Dies Last

Voices of October 7th - Testimonies and memories composed in music

Supported by the Israel Lottery Council for Culture & Arts


30.11.24 | 12:00 | Kulturhaus Schwartzsche Villa

Amit Dolberg / Piano

Chaya Czernowin fardanceCLOSE | Ayal Adler Imaginary Figures | Henry Cowell The Banshee | Sarah Nemtsov You | Ofer Pelz Backward Inductions | Howard Skempton Of late | Ari Ben-Shabetai Three Romances


december 2024


13.12.24 | 20:30 | Raanana Music Center

Meitar Ensemble

Maurice Ravel Ma mère l'Oye (Arr.: D. Walter \ Meitar Ensemble) | Bohuslav Martinu La Revue de cuisine | Movements from L'éventail de Jeanne - a collaborative work by Jacques Ibert, Alexis Roland-Manuel, Marcel Delannoy, Darius Milhaud and Francis Poulenc (Arr.: Y. Shapiro)


21.12.24 | 20:30 | Studio Annette Tel Aviv

Meitar at Studio Annette

CEME Festival

Maayan Franco / Conductor | Yoni Gotlibovich / Cello | Amit Dolberg / Piano

Meitar Ensemble


Towards the light

Saad Haddad Selig Licht | Ziv Cojocaru Run! Into the circles! Run out! * | Yair Klartag The sun will stand still, for ensemble and electronics * | Omri Abram ...a glimmer of light…, for flute, violin and cello | Ayal Adler Imaginary Figures | Hadas Pe'ery Very sad ending (or comedy very bad construed), for cello and electronics


Supported by Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung


22.12.24 | Tremolo Israel Percussion Center, Netanya

CEME Festival 

Hagar Shahal / Flute | Amit Dolberg / Piano

Tremolo Ensemble, Tedarim Ensemble, Meitar Ensemble

Sounds of the elements


Talia Amar Triangulation, for piano and electronics | Thomas Wally Jeux éoliens II, for bass flute, bass clarinet and bassoon | Niels Lyhne Løkkegaard Sound X Sound, music for 10 hi hats | Amit Buium Nothing at all, for flute and electronics | Eli Korman רוח رُوح, for flute ensemble | Etai Weitzman Rain | Ayala Asherov Crystal watch, for percussion ensemble | Tomer Yariv New piece *


In collaboration with Tremolo Ensemble, Raash studio, the Polyphony Conservatory, Nazareth, Netanya Conservatory and the Israel Conservatory of Music, Tel Aviv | Supported by ECCO - European Contemporary Composers Orchestra


25.12.2024 | Kibbutz Sde Boker

Sounds In The Desert Festival

Hope Dies Last

Voices of October 7th - Testimonies and memories composed in music

Supported by the Israel Lottery Council for Culture & Arts


26.12.24 | 19:30 | Studio Annette, Tel Aviv

CEME Festival

Reut Ventorero / Mezzo-soprano

Meitar Ensemble

Painting music - Concluding concert, Young CEME program

Directed by Meitar Ensemble members and Hana Ajiashvili

New pieces by Oriya Cohen, Or Hochman, Jonathan Ron, Uri Guéron, Ofek Barda, Lyri Limon, Etai Weitzman and Nevo Libman - premieres *


26.12.24 | 20:30 | Studio Annette, Tel Aviv

CEME Festival

Meitar Ensemble

Contrasts


Francis Poulenc Sonata for clarinet and piano | Béla Bartók Contrasts | Igor Stravinsky Suite from L'Histoire du Soldat


26.12.24 | 21:30 | Studio Annette, Tel Aviv

CEME Festival

Noa Frenkel / Alto | Tamar Arnon / Mezzo-soprano | Amit Dolberg / Piano


Lieder in the Vakuum

Wolfgang Rihm Hölderlin Fragmente, for voice and piano | Carola Bauckholt Vakuum Lieder, for voice and vacuum cleaner | Carmel Curiel Shani, for voice, electronics and video | Klara Mlakar Vuročena (Spellbound), for alto solo * | Nathaniel Ouzana Brain Bronchus, for alto, electronics and video *


27.12.24 | 20:30 | Levontin7, Tel Aviv

CEME Festival

Nadav Lev / Guitar | Assif Tsahar, Amit Dubester / Saxophone I Nir Marom / Clarinet | Benedikt Bindewald / Viola I Yoni Gotlibovich / Cello


Tr''E''o | Concluding concert, CEME composers’ mastercourse 


Amit Dubester Improvisation for saxophone solo | Eli Korman Tr''E''o, for amplified classical guitar, pedals effects and two loudspeakers | Keiichi Umezawa Undoing II, for viola solo * | Nadav Melamed Thought no. 16, for saxophone and electronics * | Francesco Sgambati The Missing Half, for cello solo * | Jamie Mackenzie Reaching Out, for saxophone solo * | Vadim Genin Dear Beginner, for clarinet and electronics * | Assif Tsahar Improvisation for saxophone solo


27.12.24 | 20:30 | Levontin7, Tel Aviv

CEME Festival

Ania Karpowicz / Flute | Nadav Melamed / Electronics 

TOVA - Cyber flute recital

Yifan Shao Ephemera, for flute solo * | Yair Mirel Learning to Stutter, for flute solo * | Nina Fukuoka Zansei, for flute, audio playback and video | Marta Śniady 4 rituals of women's happiness #2, for flute, audio playback and video | Teoniki Rożynek Scream, for flute, audio playback and video | Aleksandra Kaca Inner, for flute, audio playback, and video

Supported by the Sound Collective Foundation and the oto foundation



28.12.24 | 20:30 | Tel Aviv-Yafo Music Center

CEME Festival

Pierre-André Valade / Conductor | Noa Frenkel / Voice

Meitar Ensemble

Poetry of Animals

Hana Ajiashvili Signs, for ensemble and electronics * | Yotam Haber Estro Poetico-armonico III, for voice, ensemble and electronics | Carola Bauckholt Zugvögel, for reed quintet | Brigitta Muntendorf Weight and Load, for ensemble and electronics * | Zihan Wu After Infinity - Winning piece, the 10th Matan Givol International Composers Competition

Supported by the Israel Lottery Council for Culture & Arts, the Azrieli Foundation and the Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung


january 2025


19.1.25 | 16:30 | Radialsystem Berlin, Germany

Ultraschall Festival

Pierre-André Valade / Conductor

Meitar Ensemble

Elnaz Seyedi Fragmente einer Erinnerung | Batya Frenklakh Colors of the sand * | Mauro Lanza The Lincolnshire Poacher II, for ensemble and electronics | Georg Friedrich Haas Die schwache Kraft * | Yair Klartag The sun will stand still


February 2025


3.2.25 | 20:30 | Studio Annette Tel Aviv

Meitar Ensemble

New Pieces by JAMD composition students *

In collaboration with the Israel Composers’ League


16.2.25 | 19:00 | The Jezreel Valley Center for the Arts, Kibbutz Mizra

Young CEME 

Reut Ventorero / Voice | Anat Nazarathy / Flute | Talia Herzlich / Violin | Yoni Gotlibovich / Cello

Concluding concert of the Young CEME Course, under the direction of the Meitar Ensemble members and Hana Ajiashvili


19.2.25 | 20:30 | Assia Auditorium, Tel Aviv Museum of Art

Eti Vaknin Sober, Avigail Arnheim / Narrators

Meitar Ensemble

Hope Dies Last

Voices of October 7th - Testimonies and memories composed in music

Supported by the Israel Lottery Council for Culture & Arts


March 2025


6.3.25 | 20:30 | Studio Annette Tel Aviv

Meitar at Studio Annette

Rotem Kidron / Conductor | Reut Ventorero  / Mezzo-soprano | Amit Dolberg / Piano

Meitar Ensemble

Legends, feelings, nonsense

Ofer Pelz Backward Inductions, for augmented piano | Ursula Mamlok Alariana | Liri Limon and Etai Weitzman It's not a lie if you believe it * | Arie Shapira Achtung Rapunzel, for voice and ensemble | Noriko Baba Pavillon de monsieur porcelaine, for voice and ensemble | Eli Korman La Chacarera del Último Latido


15.3.25 | 11:30 | House concert, Tel Aviv

Meitar Ensemble

Telemann Fantasie for solo flute | Bach Trio Sonata BWV 525, Allemande from Violin Partita no. 2, Contrapunctus no. 14 from the Art of Fugue | Vivaldi Chamber Concerto RV 103 | Villa-Lobos Bachianas Brasileiras no. 6 | Couperin Vivement and Air Agréablement from Treizième Concert


19.3.25 | 20:00 | Raanana Music Center

Meitar Ensemble

Telemann Fantasie for solo flute | Bach Trio Sonata BWV 525, Allemande from Violin Partita no. 2, Contrapunctus no. 14 from the Art of Fugue | Vivaldi Chamber Concerto RV 103 | Villa-Lobos Bachianas Brasileiras no. 6 | Couperin Vivement and Air Agréablement from Treizième Concert


april 2025


26.4.25 | 21:00 | Studio Annette Tel Aviv

Meitar at Studio Annette

Carmel Curiel / Conductor | Anat Nazarathy / Flute | Nadav Cohen / Bassoon | Amit Dolberg / Piano

Time Destroyed

Elnaz Seyedi Fragmente einer Erinnerung | Jonathan Harvey Nataraja, for flute and piano | Carmel Curiel The Same lack of meaning that the pulsing vein has II * | Louis Goldford The Fiction of Time Destroyed, for alto flute, bass clarinet, cello and electronics | Busher Abu Saleh Tuesday Morning, for flute, bassoon, piano and electronics | Osnat Netzer Monoblogue, for bassoon solo


May 2025


15.5.25 | Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance

Tedarim Ensemble

New Pieces by JAMD composition students

In collaboration with the Yitzhak Navon Community & Youth Unit of the JAMD


June 2024


8.6.25 | 14:15 | Haifa University

Meitar Ensemble

Francis Poulenc Sonata for clarinet and piano | Béla Bartók Contrasts | Igor Stravinsky Suite from L'Histoire du Soldat


21.6.25 | 21:00 | Studio Annette Tel Aviv

Meitar at Studio Annette

Edo Frenkel / Conductor | Hagar Shahal / Flute | Yoni Gotlibovich / Cello

Blindness 

Samir Odeh-Tamimi Óstrakon * | Eliav Kohl Agnus Dei, for ensemble and electronics * | Clara Iannotta The people here go mad. They blame the wind, for bass clarinet, cello, piano and electronics | Batya Frenklach Colors of the sand | Edo Frenkel Becoming an Olive Tree, for flute and cello

Supported by the Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung


* Premiere