Chamber
In the Corner of the Eye (2024) – for String Quartet and Electronics
My inspiration for this work is rooted in the ongoing turmoil and conflicts affecting Israel. ​
On April 2023 I have been injured in a terror car ramming attack, and I aim to channel this experience into the composition. Post-attack, I found myself hypersensitive to rapid peripheral movements, experiencing discomfort and anxiety from sudden movements within my field of vision.
These sensations are what I seek to infuse into the essence of this piece.
The piece was premiered at the Givat Haviva Artist Residency Opening Event, with grants from Givat Haviva and Tel-Aviv Municipality.
Recently, I received Mifal Hapais Cultural Fund grant to expand the piece to a 25-30 minutes long concert,
Violin - Talia Herzlich
Violin - Omer Herz
Viola - Leikie Glick
Cello - Gali Kna'ani
Were It Not For Mercy (2025)
for Tenor Recorder, Voice, and Backstage String Quartet
An expansion of a solo piece of the same name, the piece corrseponds to the Jewish prayer for the soul of a person who has died. The piece imitates the different sounds and phrases of the melody, as well as imitating sounds of the reality I faced while composing it, during 2024-2025.
Tenor Recorder, Voice - Noga Rubanenko
Violin - Talia Herzlich
Violin - Omer Herz
Viola - Leikie Glick
Cello - Gali Kna'ani
Eyes Wide Open (2025) – for String Quartet and Electric Guitar
A piece for string quartet and electric guitar. The work presents a relationship with shifting dynamics between the guitar and the quartet — rivalry, conversation, dance. The piece concludes with a complete dissolution into collective improvisation.
It was premiered at a concert of my original works at Felicja Blumental in May 2025.
The piece enters into dialogue with an earlier work for string quartet and electronics, which I composed in an attempt to express a physiological response through music.
Eyes Wide Open represents a sense of closure and an attempt at personal healing — transforming forced hyper-vigilance into conscious awareness, with eyes wide open.
Violin - Talia Herzlich
Violin - Omer Herz
Viola - Leikie Glick
Cello - Gali Kna'ani
Guitar - Jonathan David
E(tti)tude (2022) – for Clarinet (Bass Clarinet) and Bassoon
The piece won Israel's sixth national composition contest (2023) and was published by the Israeli Music Institute.
It was performed by Meitar Ensemble at the Israeli Conservatory of Music's winner's ceremony.
The piece demonstrates the different phases of practicing a musical instrument. In the beginning, the practice is meticulous and organized, and little by little the player loses concentration.
Later in the piece there is an improvisation, in which the players play based on materials presented earlier in the piece.
Clarinet - Danny Erdman
Bassoon - Nadav Cohen
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Omes Chomes (2024) For Brass Quartet
A piece for trumpet in C, two tenor trombones and one bass trombone.
It was composed specifically for this ensemble of players, for a concert in the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance.
Trumpet - Yoad Fastman
Tenor Trombone - Omer Lam
Tenor Trombone - David Wiesel
Bass Trombone - Casimir Rothmaler
Courage (2022) – for 3 Processed Recorders
Courage is a piece I composed for Noga Rubanenko, recorder player based in Poland.
In the piece I tried to create a "wandering" atmosphere - a feeling of order which then erupts into mess, and back again, with each time it gets more extreme. The usage of effects on the recorders open a lot of sonic expressions, and is a flattering contrary to the instrument itself - which is almost a pure sine wave.
Performers:
Alto and Soprano - Noga Rubanenko
Tenor - Noam Shpilman Bass
Tenor - Adi Bercowski
Live Electronics - Jonathan David
