CEME 2025

Contemporary Encounters Meitar Ensemble

20.12 - 27.12.2025

Chaya czernowin (usa \ israel) - Mastercourse for composers

georg friedrich haas (usa \ austria) - Mastercourse for composers

Pierre-André Valade (France)

amit dubester (switzerland \ Israel)

jonathan shapiro (Germany)

Meitar Ensemble

CEME (Contemporary Encounters by Meitar Ensemble) Festival and Master Course, is a unique platform for the promotion of contemporary music, established with the aim of engaging young musicians with the latest developments in the field of New Music.

For the CEME 2025 edition, the festival is honored to host two internationally acclaimed composers - Chaya Czernowin and Georg Friedrich Haas. They will lead the 2025 CEME composition course, with 24 participating students from all over the world. In addition to composition lessons with Czernowin and Haas, the students will write new pieces to be rehearsed and performed by Meitar and by guest musicians in dedicated concerts, giving the young composers the opportunity to hear, re-examine and edit their pieces, while receiving feedback on their work from professional performers.

This year’s course will be operating in hybrid form. In addition to the visiting students who will travel to Israel, full remote online participation in the course will be made possible. Students who are remotely located, will receive private composition lessons through Zoom, take part in workshops and have their pieces rehearsed, performed and recorded - all to be carried out online.