Ronen Borshevsky is a Professor at the Buchman Mehta School of Music in the Tel Aviv University, heading the Choral Directing Department. Ronen Borshevsky is currently the music director of the Gary Bertini Israeli Choir, the Israel Kibbutz Choir and the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music choirs.

 

In 2006 he led the “German - Israeli Philharmonie”, on a concert tour of Israel and Germany, conducting at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig, among other venues. As a winner of the Koussevitzky scholarship, he was invited to participate in Tanglewood Music Festival, where he studied with Maestro Seiji Ozawa and Bernard Haitink with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Borshevsky is also a prize winner of the Tokyo International Conducting Competition and the Nikolai Malko Conducting Competition in Denmark. Ronen Borshevsky holds an Artist’s Diploma in orchestra conducting. Several of his recordings were released in Europe. His CD recording “The Seventh Gate,” under the Ad Vitam Harmonia Mundi label, featuring the Jerusalem Oratorio Chamber Choir, won the Charles Munch award, Grand Prix  International “L’Orphée du prestige lyrique de l’Europe”, (2007).

Nizar was born in the City of Lod, Israel, in 1985. At the age of 5 he began studying piano and subsequently, composition as well, at the The Israel Conservatory of Music. Nizar continued his piano education at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance with Prof. Zekharia Plavin, where he won first prize at the “Rome For Jerusalem” piano competition. Nizar has received many awards in Israel and in Europe.

 

He has performed, over the years, in important and exclusive concert venues and festivals in Germany, Italy, Austria, Spain, France, Croatia, Cyprus and Lithuania. He is the founder of the ABAAD ensemble, which brings together top ranking artists playing Eastern and Western instruments. Nizar is deeply involved in organizing important musical education projects for youth, and special classical music projects. Today, he is a faculty member at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, teacher at the Ono Academic Center, conductor of the Jerusalem International YMCA Youth Choir, and music director and conductor of the Israel Arab-Jewish Youth Orchestra. He also presents a weekly program on the Kol Hamuzika (Voice of Music) radio station.

Born in Nazareth, Israel, in 1993. At age of 12, she began studying voice at the Jezreel Valley Center of the Arts, where she was a chorister and soloist with the “Shani” choir (an inter-cultural ensemble of Jewish, Christian and Muslim youth). Later on she studied with opera soprano Inas Masalha.

 

Today she studies both in the Vocal Department of the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, training with Ms. Larisa Tatuev, as well as at Haifa University, where she is studying for her Masters degree in musicology. Maria performs both traditional Arabic and Western classical music. She has participated in numerous Arabic music competitions in Israel, in most of which she took first place.