Golem (גֹּלֶם) for solo cello by Eli Korman

Written and dedicated to Uriah Tutter

 Cello - Uriah Tutter
Painting - Shir Hacohen
Recording - Friedrich Wilhelm Rödding

Weinbrennersaal, Kurhaus Baden Baden, Germany
18.3.21

Golem (גֹּלֶם) for solo cello

Tough Love for Cello & soundtrack by Eli Korman

Yoni Gotlibovich - Cello
Mix & Mastering - Tom Belkind

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Tough Love for Cello & soundtrack

Performed live on 14.3.22, as part of the Ptilia Concert Series, at Studio Anette, Tel Aviv.

Cello: Yoni Gotlibovich
Alto Saxophone: Eli Korman
Percussion: Ilan Barkani

Improvisation

Performed live on 14.3.22, as part of the Ptilia Concert Series, at Studio Anette, Tel Aviv.

Cello: Yoni Gotlibovich
Alto Saxophone: Eli korman
Percussion: Ilan Barkani

Amplified Improvisation

La Chacarera del Último Latido for Flute, Clarinet, Piano, Percussion, Violin & Cello

performed by Divertimento Ensemble

Live recording from a concert in Moncalvo, Italy, 3.9.2022.


The piece is based on a folklore rhythm from Argentina: la Chacarera. My parents are
from Argentina. I grew up in Israel, but in a house that had the Argentinian culture.
The piece La Chacarera del Último Latido (from Spanish – the Chacarera of the last heart beat) is trying to deal with a folklore non-western rhythm in the field of contemporary western music. For me, the relationship between these two worlds is in a struggle, but in the piece they are trying to fit together.

La Chacarera del Último Latido

preformed by Quartetto Maurice as part of the Bludenzer Tage zeitgemäßer Musik 2022

1st violin - Georgia Privitera
2nd violin - Laura Bertolino
viola - Francesco Vernero
cello - Aline Privitera

Recording:  Chris Swithinbank
Cover photo:  Nicola D'Anna

Tough Love II for string quartet

Recorded at the Basel Münsterplatz during the last day of Fasnacht 23.
1/3/23, 14:31-14:37.


Fasnacht Celebrations 1/3/23 Basel

Live recording during a concert of Ensemble OFFset, 27/3/23 in Museum Tinguely Basel:

Chiara Jarrell - voice

Dmitry Batalov - piano

Emilia Feil - percussion

María Del Carmen Chamizo Martín - saxophone 

Martijn Susla - clarinet

Pietro Elia Barcellona - double bass

Reto Weiche - electric guitar

Friederike Scheunchen -  conductor



Recording: Minh Phi Guillod 
Mix & mastering: Isaac Roth Blumfield

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From the sound image passed through my mind when I walked among Jean Tinguely works, I wrote "Luminous Rust". The piece seeks to trace Tinguely machines, the metallic sound produced by them, the coolness they emit and their size. With the help of the ensemble, I try to create a new world of machine sound, through acoustic instruments and human voice. The new sound world functions as a kind of "ocean of sounds", in which the human voice of the singer and the "humanity" of the musical instruments are drowning and struggling to stay above the surface of the water.

Luminous Rust for ensemble

Recorded during dress rehearsal, Tinguely museum Basel, 1/5/23

Guitars - Kukka Lukkarinen, Flavio Banni
Traverso - Laura Kopřivová
Russolo Intonarumori - Dániel Láposi
Conductor - Inbar Sharet

Recording - Caspar Johannes Walter

Three Little Dry Cracks for two classical guitars with objects, traverso & Russolo intonarumori

Ensemble SEV 

Maayan James - Saxophone 
Dennis Sobolev - Electric guitar
Dan Weinstein - Cello

Ori Kadishay - Recording & Mix

Anat Nazarathy - Photo

Recorded on 2nd October 2023 in the Mazkeka Studios, Jerusalem

Things I Deleted for Baritone sax, Electric guitar and Cello

Eli Korman - Everything is Bland

Ensemble Zone Expérimentale, Directed by Yaron Deutsch
21.1.24, Neuer Saal, Musik Akademie Basel

Cellos - Clara Dietze & James Morley
Flutes - Ignat Khlobystin & Isabelle Meraner
Saxophones - Alex Prill  & Marc Baltrons Fàbregas 
Percussion - Mikołaj Rytowski 

Recording - Jonas Prina & Caspar Johannes Walter

Mix & Mastering - Omri Abram

Link to the video of the piece: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjEoljK-DfE

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When the October 2023 war broke out, I was left without words.

Alongside feelings of fear and terror, tears and a lump in my throat, numerous feelings of blandness emerged. Everything was bland all around. The food was bland, the streets were bland, the skies were bland, my exhaustion was bland, the money I earned was bland, the everyday life was bland.

 Amidst all this, even the music was bland for me during those initial weeks of the war. What wasn’t bland at all were the tough emotions and helplessness, mine, and that of all my friends and family.

In the piece everything is bland, I try to give an auditory and performative expression to this feeling of blandness, alongside the difficult emotions and tragedy of the war. Writing this piece during the first two months of the war was an anchor for me, a breath of air.

Everything is Bland for Ensemble

Tehuda - for piano solo by Eli Korman

piano - Amit Dolberg

recording & mix - Yaron Aldema

recorded at the Ran Baron hall, Israel Conservatory of Music, Tel Aviv.

20/1/2020

Tehuda - for Piano and two EBows

Eli Korman - Heavy Water

Santiago Kuschnir - percussion
Nathanael Gubler - viola
René Mayoral - cello I&II
Kai Jack - double bass

Members of the Tedarim Ensemble
M. Mus for contemporary music, the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance
Artistic direction - members of the Meitar Ensemble

Recorded during the Corona virus quarantine in three continents, April 2020

Mix & edit by Yoni Gotlibovich

Heavy Water - for viola, two cellos, double bass & percussion

Triptych - Eli Korman

Duo Alto:

Anat Nazarathy - flute
Noa Mick - saxophone

Sound and Mix: Omri Abram
Cover photo: Anat Nazarathy

11.12.2020, Basel, Switzerland

Triptych - performed by Duo Alto (studio recording)

https://www.elikorman.com/

Eli Korman is an Israeli composer and a saxophone player. Born (1992) and raised in Kibbutz Netiv Halamed Hey, currently lives in Basel, Switzerland.

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Eli is studying these days at the Musik Akademie Basel FHNW for his second M.Mus in composition, under the supervision of prof. Caspar Johannes Walter.

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He has studied for a B.Mus in composition & M.Mus. in Composition in the Tedarim program of Meitar Ensemble at the Jerusalem Academy for Music & Dance, with Prof. Ari Ben Shabetai, and Prof. Yinam Leef. He had studied also with Yair Klartag after graduated from the Jerusalem Academy.

 

Eli participated in several master courses for composers such as CEME master course of Meitar Ensemble, the International Young Composers Academy in Ticino, the Workshop for Young Composers of Divertimento Ensemble and the Bludenzer Tage zeitgemäßer Musik with professors such as Franck Bedrossian, Phillippe Leoux, Helmut Lachenman, Mauro Lanza, Samir Odeh-Tamimi, Unsuk Chin, Du Yun, Oscar Bianchi and Eva Reiter.

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Eli received the ''America-Israel Cultural Foundation'' scholarship for his composition studies, as well as an excellence scholarship from the Jerusalem Academy for Music and Dance. Eli won the second prize in the ''Israel Composers' League'' competition for young composers (2018), the Call for piano works by RMN (2020) the Call for Scores of Blank Ensemble (2021) and a Diploma for nonstandard thinking and originality of idea from the 3rd National Composer Competition from the Kazakh National University for Arts (2021).  His pieces are performed by Les Percussions de Strasbourg, Divertimento Ensemble, Quartetto Maurice, Meitar ensemble, Duo Alto, Tedarim ensemble and various players in Israel, Hungary, the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, Chile, North Macedonia, South Korea, Italy and Austria.

Eli Korman

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