המקהלה הקאמרית כפר-סבא KFAR SABA CHAMBER CHOIR
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The Kfar Saba Chamber Choir
The Kfar Saba Chamber Choir is an amateur choir numbering some 35 singers.
The choir was founded in 1987 and since September 1997 Aharon Harlap has been conductor and music director.
During its years of activity, the choir has performed at many concerts and festivals throughout Israel and in Europe, including the Abu Ghosh Festival and Haifa Holiday Festival, as well as live broadcasts on the Voice of Music radio station. It recently participated in a choral music festival in Jerusalem, and at “Festival of Sounds” at Sde Boker in the Negev Desert.
In 1998 the choir was awarded a Gold Diploma at the international "Song of the Days" choir competition.
In 2000 they undertook a concert tour of Spain and in 2003 were invited to participate in a performance of Mozart's Requiem in Budapest, together with the Budapest Academy Choir and Academy Orchestra, under the baton of maestro Gabor Hollerong. As part of this tour, the choir performed an a cappella program throughout Hungary, garnering universally rave reviews.
In November 2018, the choir visited Malta to participate in the island’s annual international choir festival.
The choir's extensive and varied repertoire includes choral classics such as the Mozart Requiem, Brahms' German Requiem, contemporary works such as Aharon Harlap's Ecclesiastes and many other original Harlap compositions, as well as spirituals and special four-part arrangements of Hebrew songs.
The choir has collaborated with leading Israeli orchestras in a series of subscription concerts, including the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, the Israel Chamber Orchestra and the Israel Sinfonietta Beersheba, performing under the batons of prominent conductors like Stanley Sperber, Doron Salomon, Ronen Borszewski and the choir’s own music director Aharon Harlap.
Recent performances around the country have included appearing with the Israel Sinfonietta, Beersheba under the baton of conductor Justus Franz, and with the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra under conductor Salim Aboud Askar.
Aharon Harlap Musical Director and Conductor
Aharon Harlap was born in Winnipeg, Canada, where he began his musical career as a pianist. He studied composition under P. Racine Fricker at London’s Royal College of Music, and later under Oedoen Partos in Tel Aviv. He also studied conducting under Sir Adrian Boult in London, Hans Swarovski in Vienna and and Gary Bartini in Israel. Harlap earned a reputation as a prominent conductor of orchestras, operas and choirs and has performed with orchestras and opera houses in Canada, the United States, Europe and South Africa. In Israel he has conducted leading orchestras, including the Israel Philharmonic. His compositions for orchestra, choir and chamber ensembles have been widely performed in Israel and around the world. Aharon has won many awards, among them the prestigious ACUM (Society of Authors, Composers and Music Publishers in Israel) Award (1983, 1997, 2004); the Mark Lavry Award for Composition (1993); the Prime Minister's Award (1999); the ACUM Award for Lifetime Achievement (2008); and the Prime Minister's Composition Award for Composers in the Concert Music category, presented to him in 2014.
Tanya Gluzman - piano
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Ms. Tania Gluzman grew up in Novosibirsk, Russia, where she studied piano at the Academy of Music. In 1990 Tania immigrated to Israel, where she worked at the Buchman Mehta Academy of Music in Tel Aviv for 12 years.
Tania currently works with several leading choirs in Israel and is also responsible for vocal warm-ups, accompaniment during rehearsals and performances and coaching sections of the choir in difficult roles.