Classical music

No whining and women: This Witches? Festival returns with a salute to female musicianship

The event was initiated by Jerusalem Baroque Orchestra (JBO) founder-conductor-artistic director David Shemer, with the JBO performing predominantly baroque scores.

|ByBARRY DAVIS
ILLUSTRATIVE: A woman's face is pictured behind a violin.
OFRA YITZHAKI: ‘My primary drive is simply to record music I believe in deeply, on an artistic level.’

Ofra Yitzhaki talks to ‘Post’ about new albums focusing on monumental musical figures - interview

As Bardanashvili aptly put it, Yitzhaki’s dedication is “a gift to everyone – to the audience, to the history of music, and especially to composers.”

|ByLIRAN GURKIEWICZ
Family members and friends attend a funeral service for Israeli singer and composer Mati Caspi, who passed away after a prolonged battle with cancer, in Tel Aviv, February 9, 2026.

Matti Caspi laid to rest as family and artists gather to honor his legacy

In an emotionally charged ceremony, hundreds of family members, friends, and figures from the cultural world arrived today at the Kfar Saba cemetery to accompany Matti Caspi on his final journey.

|ByMOSHE COHEN/MAARIV
Pianist Ido Shalom takes his seat at the keyboard

Pianist Ido Shalom on music, meaning, and playing beyond the concert hall

Shalom states, “To me, music is about conveying emotions. It’s about creating moments that resonate with people.”

|ByRONNIE ROSENMAN

Mélanie Laurent brings expertise to curtain raiser of this year’s Israeli Harp Competition

Laurent certainly put her heart, soul and hours of practice into her instrumental love, and made good progress.

DECEMBER 18, 2022ByBARRY DAVIS
MÉLANIE LAURENT: I had a very big crush on the sound.

Nazi-looted sheet music returned to modern heirs

Beethoven gave the sheet music to his secretary before it found its way to the wealthy Czechoslovakian Petschek family.

DECEMBER 9, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Beethoven’s handwritten manuscript for the fourth movement of his String Quartet in B-flat Major

Israeli Vocal Ensemble looks into affairs of the heart

“I think people will leave happy, but also with some useful advice about life and love.” Can’t be bad.

DECEMBER 3, 2022ByBARRY DAVIS
THE ISRAELI vocal Ensemble will be performing in Haifa, Ra’anana and Tel Aviv.

Taking a bow into Tel Aviv Soloists Ensemble's next wave

Violinist Yaakov Rubinstein kickstarts the Tel Aviv Soloists Ensemble’s new season.

NOVEMBER 19, 2022ByBARRY DAVIS
YAAKOV RUBINSTEIN: I was a classical music snob for many years but I am happy to say that I am coming out of that a little.

Classical musician André Rieu returns to Israel

André Rieu is considered to be one of the most successful violinists in the world and is a revolutionary leader in classical music.

NOVEMBER 19, 2022ByKAYITZ BRAVNER
CLASSICAL MUSIC revolutionary: Andre Rieu.

Veteran pianist Garrick Ohlsson keeps his musical options open

A rewarding, pleasurable and heartwarming listening experience, with a consummate open-minded professional, is clearly in store for the Tel Aviv and Jerusalem audiences.

NOVEMBER 6, 2022ByBARRY DAVIS
AMERICAN CLASSICAL pianist Garrick Ohlsson

Music is music at this year's Tzlilei Stav music festival

Tzlilei Stav started out at Tefen in 2016, moving on to Ein Kerem for a couple of years before ending up in Abu Gosh.

OCTOBER 15, 2022ByBARRY DAVIS
SOPRANO NOUR Darwish will be featured at the Tzlilei Stav (Fall Sounds) Festival.

‘I Am A Guitar’ international festival unveils the riches of Polish classical guitar music

Polish strings attached: Kowalski’s festival concert at Tzavta should be thoroughly entertaining, engaging, enlightening and pretty exciting, too.

OCTOBER 12, 2022ByBARRY DAVIS
ACCLAIMED POLISH guitarist Mateusz Kowalski will be appearing in the I Am A Guitar festival, this month.

Canadian classical violinist Lara St. John comes to Beersheba

Music lovers, who go along to the Beersheba Performing Arts Center this Saturday evening (9 p.m.), can look forward to a quality and, no doubt, emotive display of classical instrumental mastery.

JULY 13, 2022ByBARRY DAVIS
CANADIAN VIOLINIST Lara St. John: I find a lot of classical musicians to be just brilliant at what they do but they only do one thing, they only want to do one thing. For me, all music can be learned from.

Grapevine July 8, 2022: Not newsworthy?

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

JULY 8, 2022ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
MEMBERS OF the US Marine Corps with (from left) President Isaac Herzog, US Ambassador Tom Nides, Alternate Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and outgoing Deputy Chief of Mission Jonathan Shrier.