Orchestra

Arab-Jewish youth orchestra builds a unifying ‘East-West’ sound together

The program brings youth orchestras from across the country, training young musicians to carry forward a musical language of fusion that has been developed over years.

Tom Cohen conducts the youth program of The Jerusalem Orchestra East & West in Tel Aviv, May 2026.
The Jerusalem Baroque Orchestra forms the backbone of the Bach Festival.

Bach Festival features contemporary dance and live baroque performances

PRIZE-WINNING composer Lior Navok.

Israeli Lior Navok wins prestigious Engel Prize for Ukraine war composition

THE REVOLUTION Orchestra’s Roy Oppenheim (bottom) and Zohar Sharon.

Bach, unplugged with The Revolution Orchestra


Bouncing Bach: The eighth edition of Bach Festival celebrates the composer's work - review

This year's Bach Festival, already in its eighth edition, will see the Jerusalem Baroque Orchestra perform the storied musician's pieces.

 GERMAN TENOR Richard Resch: Baroque poetry has a different vocabulary.

‘Monty Python’s Passion’ to play at the Israeli Opera

Few evenings at the opera start with the orchestra tuning its instruments to the sound of a goose being strangled. 'Monty Python’s Passion' is playing in April.

 ACTOR BEN PERRY (left) and conductor Roee Oppenheim in Monty Python’s ‘Passion.’

Love and Majesty from the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra

The orchestra will perform the choral symphony Dialogues of Love, based on a work by the medieval Jewish rabbi Judah Leone Abarvanel.

 AVNER DORMAN’S choral Symphony ‘Dialogues of Love’ will be performed for the first time by the IPO

Music for everybody in Eilat

This year’s Classicameri Festival spreads the fun musical word far and wide.

 CONDUCTOR, COMPOSER, pianist, and accordion player Omer Meir Wellber will lead the Classicameri Festival.

Jerusalem classic cellist performs 'moonlighting' solo concert

Talia Erdal will demonstrate where her extracurricular “moonlighting” activities are taking her on December 14, when she plays a solo concert at Mishkenot Sha’ananim.

 TALIA ERDAL: ‘I’ve got enough to put on an evening of my music. But I still needed to find the guts to say my music is good enough to put out there.’

Integrative ensemble to perform on Hanukkah

The performance is dedicated to war evacuees from the Israel-Hamas conflict.

 THE JERUSALEM Integrative Orchestra, which will be putting on a pop-rock music performance dedicated to war evacuees on the first night of Hanukkah

Israeli Andalusian Orchestra Ashdod tours the country during wartime

Various members of the ensemble have been traveling the length and breadth of the country, playing – for free – to audiences of all sizes and age groups, and at all kinds of venues, grand and modest.

 The Israeli Andalusian Orchestra Ashdod performs for internally displaced Israelis around the country.

The JSO’s ‘prayer for Israel’

The Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra offers some healing sounds

  THE JERUSALEM Symphony Orchestra.

Israel Camerata Jerusalem prepares for its 40th season of earnest instrumental endeavor

Forty years after he founded the Israel Camerata, Biron is very much still in the thick of things, guiding his music-playing wards through repertoires of practically any ilk going.

 AVNER BIRON and the Israel Camerata – celebrating 40.

Ra’anana Symphonette brings color to new season - review

November brings the Israeli/French conductor/pianist Nimrod David Pfeffer to the Ra’anana stage.

 THE CECILIA Vocal Ensemble.