25 Notable alumni of
Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance
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The Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance is 1729th in the world, 390th 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
- composersingersongwriter
- Biography
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Naomi Shemer was a leading Israeli musician and songwriter, hailed as the "first lady of Israeli song and poetry." Her song "Yerushalayim Shel Zahav" ("Jerusalem of Gold"), written in 1967, became an unofficial second anthem after Israel won the Six-Day War that year and reunited Jerusalem.
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Noga Erez
- Occupations
- singer-songwritersingertelevision actor
- Biography
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Noga Erez is an Israeli singer, songwriter and producer. In 2017, her song "Dance While You Shoot" was used by Apple in an advertising campaign for its music streaming service. In the same year she released her debut album, Off the Radar, to critical acclaim. Her second album, Kids, was released in 2021, followed by The Vandalist in 2024.
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Gilad Atzmon
- Occupations
- composerpolitical activistjazz musicianwritersaxophonist
- Biography
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Gilad Atzmon is an Israeli-born British saxophonist, novelist, political activist, and writer.
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Gilat Bennett
- Occupations
- 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
- composersongwriterconductor
- 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
- composersingersongwriter
- 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
- Occupations
- composermusicianmandolinist
- 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
- Occupations
- musicianscreenwriterfilm directoractorwriter
- Biography
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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
- Occupations
- composermusic arrangerconductor
- Biography
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Ziv "Kojo" Cojocaru is an Israeli composer, conductor and arranger who serves as Head of Composition, Conducting and Music Theory Department at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance and as Conductor in Residence of the Israel Sinfonietta Orchestra.
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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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Elinor Carucci
- Occupations
- photographer
- Biography
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Elinor Carucci is an Israeli-American photographer and educator, living in New York City, noted for her intimate porayals of her family's lives. 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.
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Ofir Ben-Shitrit
- Years
- 1995-.. (age 30)
- 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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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
- Occupations
- conductor
- Biography
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Asher Fisch is an Israeli conductor and pianist.
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Itay Talgam
- Occupations
- conductorpianist
- Biography
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Itay Talgam is an Israeli conductor and business consultant.
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Elam Rotem
- Occupations
- composerharpsichordistsinger
- Biography
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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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Yitzhak Yedid
- Occupations
- composerpianist
- Biography
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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
- Occupations
- opera singerperforming artistactor
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David Bižić is an operatic baritone. He was born in Belgrade, Serbia.
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Lior Navok
- Occupations
- composer
- Biography
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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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Zehava Gal
- Occupations
- opera singer
- Biography
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Zehava Gal is an Israeli-born operatic mezzo-soprano.
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Yaron Gottfried
- Occupations
- composerpianistconductor
- Biography
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Yaron Gottfried is an Israeli conductor, pianist and composer.
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Ayal Adler
- Occupations
- 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 the first prize at the RMN International Composition Competition in London. Serves as the Chairman of the Israeli Composers' League.
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Dalia Faitelson
- Occupations
- jazz guitarist
- Biography
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Dalia Faitelson is a Denmark-based Israeli composer, vocalist, guitarist, and DJ DaFa.
