25 Notable alumni of
Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance
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The Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance is 1670th in the world, 377th in Asia, and 11th in Israel by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 25 notable alumni from the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Naomi Shemer
- Enrolled in the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance
- Studied music
- Occupations
- singersongwritercomposer
- Biography
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Naomi Shemer was an Israeli songwriter, composer, and performer, widely described as the "first lady of Israeli song". She became one of the most influential figures in modern Hebrew music, writing numerous songs that became cultural touchstones, most notably "Yerushalayim Shel Zahav" ("Jerusalem of Gold"), which gained prominence after the Six-Day War and is often regarded as a second national anthem. Over a career spanning several decades, Shemer created music for adults and children, contributed to major festivals and cultural events, and became widely recognized for shaping the Israeli songbook.
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Noga Erez
- Occupations
- singertelevision actorsinger-songwriter
- Biography
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Noga Erez is an Israeli musician.
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Gilad Atzmon
- Occupations
- jazz musicianwritersaxophonistcomposerpolitical activist
- Biography
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Gilad Atzmon is an Israeli-born British saxophonist, novelist, political activist, and writer.
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Gilat Bennett
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- pastry chef
- Biography
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Gilat Ethel Bennett is an Israeli pastry chef and parent counselor who is the wife of former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett.
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Nurit Hirsh
- Occupations
- songwriterconductorcomposer
- Biography
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Nurit Hirsh is an Israeli composer, arranger and conductor who has written over a thousand Hebrew songs. Three of her most famous and widely known songs are Ba-Shanah ha-Ba'ah (Next Year, lyrics by Ehud Manor), Oseh Shalom bi-Meromav (text from the Kaddish prayer). and A-Ba-Ni-Bi, the winning entry in the 1978 Eurovision Song Contest.
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David D'Or
- Occupations
- singersongwritercomposer
- Biography
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David D'Or is an Israeli singer, composer, and songwriter. A countertenor with a vocal range of more than four octaves, he is a three-time winner of the Israeli "Singer of the Year" and "Best Vocal Performer" awards. He was also chosen to represent Israel in the 2004 Eurovision Song Contest, at which he placed 11th in the semi-final. By February 2008, nine of his albums had gone platinum.
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Eliahu Inbal
- Occupations
- conductor
- Biography
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Eliahu Inbal is an Israeli conductor. Inbal has enjoyed a career of international renown, conducting leading orchestras around the world. He has conducted a wide variety of works. He is best known for his interpretations of late-Romantic works, but is also noted as an opera conductor, and has given the premieres of a number of modern works.
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Avi Avital
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- mandolinistcomposermusician
- Biography
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Avi Avital is an Israeli mandolinist. He is best known for his renditions of well-known Baroque and folk music, much of which was originally written for other instruments. He has been nominated for a Grammy Award (Best Instrumental Soloist with Ensemble) and in 2013 signed a record agreement with Deutsche Grammophon.
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Michal Bat-Adam
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- film directoractorwriterpoetteacher
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Michal Bat-Adam is an Israeli film director, producer, screenwriter, actress, and musician. Her films deal with complex and conflicted relationships, especially relationships within families. She also explores the line between sanity and mental illness. Many of these movies contain autobiographical elements.
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Ziv Cojocaru
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- music arrangerconductorcomposer
- Biography
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Ziv Cojocaru is an Israeli composer, conductor, arranger, and pianist. He serves as Associate Professor and Head of the Music Division in the Department of the Arts at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. He is also Composer-in-Residence with the Israel Symphony Orchestra Rishon LeZion. Cojocaru is the recipient of the ACUM Prize and the Prime Minister's Award for Composers (2015).
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Nami Melumad
- Occupations
- composer
- Biography
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Naama "Nami" Melumad is an Israeli-Dutch film and television composer, conductor, flautist, and pianist based in Los Angeles. Melumad is best known for her work on Paramount+'s series Star Trek: Strange New Worlds and Star Trek: Prodigy, Pixar's Dream Productions, Marvel's Thor: Love and Thunder, the HBO Max film An American Pickle, the Amazon TV series Absentia and the virtual reality video game Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond.
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Ofir Ben-Shitrit
- Years
- 1995-.. (age 31)
- Occupations
- modelsinger
- Biography
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Ofir Ben Shitrit is an Israeli Orthodox Jewish singer. She came to prominence in 2013 as a contestant on the reality singing competition The Voice Israel. She received additional media attention due to her religious background, which led to controversy and opposition in her Orthodox Jewish religious community. She launched her professional singing career in 2013, performing Hebrew, English, Arabic and Spanish songs and covers.
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Elinor Carucci
- Occupations
- photographer
- Biography
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Elinor Carucci is an Israeli-born American photographer and educator, based in New York City, noted for her intimate portrayals of her family's lives, emotions, relationships, and identity. She has published five monographs; Closer (2002), Diary of a Dancer (2005), Mother (2013, Midlife (2019) and The Collars of RBG (2023). She teaches at the School of Visual Arts in New York. Carucci's work is held in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Jewish Museum and Brooklyn Museum in New York, Houston Museum of Fine Arts, and Harwood Museum of Art in New Mexico.
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Netania Davrath
- Occupations
- opera singer
- Biography
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Netania Davrath was a Ukrainian-born Israeli soprano opera and concert singer.
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Asher Fisch
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- conductormusician
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Asher Fisch is an Israeli conductor and pianist.
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Elam Rotem
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- singercomposerharpsichordist
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Elam Rotem is a composer, singer, and harpsichordist based in Basel, Switzerland. He is a leading expert in early music, specifically the music of the turn of the 17th century. He is the founder and director of the group Profeti della Quinta and maintains Early Music Sources, a website collating writings and information on the subject of early music.
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Itay Talgam
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- conductorpianist
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Itay Talgam is an Israeli conductor and business consultant.
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Yitzhak Yedid
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- composerpianist
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Yitzhak Yedid is an Israeli-Australian composer of contemporary classical music. He is also a pianist and an educator.
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Walter Hautzig
- Occupations
- pianist
- Biography
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Walter Hautzig was a pianist born in Vienna, Austria.
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David Bizic
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- opera singeractor
- Biography
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David Bižić is a Serbian-born French operatic baritone.
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Lior Navok
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- composer
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Lior Navok is an Israeli classical composer, conductor and pianist. He was born in Tel Aviv. Navok studied composition privately with the Israeli composer Moshe Zorman, and completed a Bachelor's degree at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, where he studied composition (with Yinam Leef) and conducting. He later completed he studied for a Master's and Doctorate at the New England Conservatory, where he studied with John Harbison.
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Yaron Gottfried
- Occupations
- pianistconductorcomposer
- Biography
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Yaron Gottfried is an Israeli conductor, pianist and composer.
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Zehava Gal
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- opera singer
- Biography
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Zehava Gal is an Israeli-born operatic mezzo-soprano.
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Ayal Adler
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- composer
- Biography
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Ayal Adler, is an Israeli composer. Active internationally, his works are continuously performed worldwide. Serves as Associate Professor in composition and theory at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance. Recipient of numerous awards, including: Two Prime- Minister Awards for Composers; Two Acum Prizes (equivalent to ASCAP), and International prizes. Serves as the Director of the Israel Composers' League.
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Dalia Faitelson
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- jazz guitaristsinger
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Dalia Faitelson is a Denmark-based Israeli composer, vocalist, guitarist, and DJ DaFa.
