Born in Haifa (1968) working as a teacher, composer and jazz performer. 
Shai, a recipient of the prestigious Israeli Prime Minister Award for Composers (2011), 
composes symphonic music, chamber music, electronic music, and music for solo instruments. 
Shai has won the 2010 ACUM Prize for his work "Echoes of Eternity" -Fantasia for violin solo and orchestra.
Among the performers of his music are distinguished musicians and ensembles like SNU Symphony Orchestra (Korea), the Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble (Moscow), Players from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music (Japan), ensemble Kaprizma (Israel), Israel Contemporary Players, the Arab & Jewish ensembles of the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra, The Israel Kibbutz Orchestra, Israel Sinfonietta orchestra of Beer-Sheva and others.

Born and raised in LA,  I grew up in an eclectic multicultural household ( Cuban New Yorker mom Mexican Jewish dad,). I lived many years in the Middle East and Brazil, adding musical influences from those desert and tropical regions. I grew up in the Napster era so my music library is a glorious messy mosaic of anything from Dr. Dre, snoop, Mozart, Robert Johnson, Zeppelin, to Hendrix, samba, Justice, Daftpunk, JS Bach, Deadmaus, Korn… you get it. 

I am an old musical soul on this new journey of putting out my original music and getting better every day as an artist, collaborator, and professional. If
You read this far, thank you. I appreciate you and your support on my journey.  The best way to support me is to follow me - sharing my music or like it. 

Much love,

Kalman

https://www.elikorman.com/

Eli Korman is an Israeli composer and saxophone player, based in Kibbutz Netiv HaLamed Hey, Israel.

 

He completed his degrees in composition at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance and the Musik Akademie Basel FHNW, studying under Professors Ari Ben Shabetai, Yinam Leef, Caspar Johannes Walter and Yair Klartag.


Eli participated in several master courses for composition such as CEME master course of Meitar Ensemble, the International Young Composers Academy in Ticino, the Workshop for Young Composers of Divertimento Ensemble, the Bludenzer Tage zeitgemäßer Musik and the Uuden Musiikin Lokakuu 2023 festival in Finland with professors such as Franck Bedrossian, Phillippe Leoux, Helmut Lachenman, Mauro Lanza, Samir Odeh-Tamimi, Unsuk Chin, Du Yun, Oscar Bianchi, Eva Reiter, Clara Iannotta, Mark Andre, Lucia Ronchetti,  Nadir Vassena and Carola Bauckholt.


Eli received the Jerusalem Institute of Contemporary Music scholarship (Siday Fellowship for Musical Creativity), the scholarship for musicians in Switzerland from the Stiftung Melinda Esterházy de Galantha, excellence scholarship from the ''America-Israel Cultural Foundation'', as well as an excellence scholarship from the Jerusalem Academy for Music and Dance.


Eli won the Eduard Brunner Kompositionpreis 2023 from the Musik Akademie Basel, the second prize in the Abraham and felicia Klon competition for young composers in Israel (2023), 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, Hai Kvartetti, Duo Alto, Tedarim ensemble and various players in Israel, Hungary, the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, Chile, North Macedonia, South Korea, Italy, Austria and Finland.

Musician, Photographer & Writer
pianist, vocalist, composer
classical, pop, rock

Hebrew after English:
Founded in 1991, the ICP (Israel Contemporary Players) is widely regarded as the best ensemble of its kind in Israel. Its activity has impacted the country’s musical life and popular appreciation of contemporary music. The ensemble regularly commissions, performs and records works by Israeli composers and so far has premiered over 100 Israeli compositions, besides performing an international repertoire from the 20th and 21st centuries. The ensemble collaborates with the finest European and Israeli conductors and soloists, including Michel Tabatchnik, Peter Rundel, Jonathan Nott, Ilan Volkov, Fabian Panisello, Christian Eggen, Dietrich Henschel, Irvine Arditti, Boris Berman and George Benjamin, to name just a few. The ICP, which was awarded the National Lottery Foundation prize for excellence in Israel, is internationally renowned and receives frequent invitations to perform at the most prestigious venues and festivals in Europe and Asia.

The concert series “Discoveries” is performed regularly at the Tel Aviv Museum and the Jerusalem Music Centre, and all its concerts are broadcast live on the “Voice of Music,” Israel’s national classical music station.
The ensemble consists of 14 players.

נוסד ב-1991 והוא נחשב לגוף המוביל בארץ בכל הנוגע לביצוע מוסיקה עכשווית. מאז הקמתו, ביצע אנסמבל המאה ה-21 את כל היצירות ה”קלאסיות” של המאה ה-20 בצד היצירות העכשוויות ביותר, ע”י האמנים המובילים בשטח זה בארץ ובעולם. אנסמבל המאה ה-21 זוכה להערכה בינלאומית, והוא מוזמן לסיורי קונצרטים במרכזי המוסיקה בעולם.
במשך 18 שנות קיומו חולל האנסמבל מהפכה ברמת הביצוע של מוסיקה עכשוית בארץ, הזמין, ביצע הקליט ושידר מוסיקה עכשוית וישראלית בביצוע המנצחים והסולנים מהטובים בעולם ובכך הביא אל הקהל הישראלי את המתרחש כיום בשטח היצירה ברמה הגבוהה ביותר.

האנסמבל קיבל באופן קבוע ציון “מצויין” בדירוג מנהל התרבות וזכה השנה בפרס לנדאו של מפעל הפיס.

סדרת הקונצרטים “תגליות” של האנסמבל, מבוצעת באופן קבוע במוזיאון תל–אביב ובמרכז המוסיקה ירושלים במשכנות שאננים. כל הקונצרטים משודרים בשידור חי ב”קול המוסיקה”.

אנסמבל המאה ה- 21 נתמך ע”י מנהל התרבות במשרד התרבות, עיריית תל–אביב ו”קול המוסיקה” ברשות השידור.

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