The teaching staff

Group Lessons: Maqam, Piyut (Jewish Incantations), Leader of the Center’s Representative Ensemble

Graduate of the Center for Middle Eastern Music, MA is musicology, student of renowned Qanun Players Abraham Salman and Goksel Backtagir, expert in Arabic, Turkish and Jewish Liturgical music, performer and producer at the Oud and Piyut festivals.     

Group Lessons: Turkish Music Ensemble

Graduate of the Rubin Academy of Music, Studied in Turkey with Mejdi Chalik, Yurdal Tukcan, and Chrisot Tzimolis. Expert in Turkish oud

Private Lessons: Percussion

Group Lessons: Rhythm

Records and performs with renowned musicians locally and Internationally including Yair Dalal, Eti Ankary, Shlomo Gronich, Machina, Dudu Tase, Amir Benayoun, Mark and Peretz Eliyahu. Served as a teacher in Rimon School for Popular Music, expert in Middle Eastern and Indian Percusion.

Private Lessons: Kamanche

One of the most experienced teachers of Kamanche in Israel, with many accomplished students. Studied with Mark and Peretz Eliyahu, and Eyal Mani. Finished with distinction an Academic program combining Eastern and Western music at Hed College, run by Peretz Eliyahu. Innovator of unique teaching methods for both Western and Eastern Music.   

Group Lessons: North African Music Ensemble

Graduate of the Composition Department at the Academy for Music and Dance in Jerusalem. Student of Nino Bitton, with whom he performed for a decade. A member of the contemporary “Ecout” ensemble. Founder of “Dunia”, the department for Middle Eastern music at the University high school conservatory.   

Private Lessons: Oud, Andalusian Violin

Group Lessons: Middle Eastern Music Experience, Composition in the Maqam

Graduate of the Center for Mid-East Music, composer, Oud and violin player, student of the master Yosef Shem-Tov. Author of written guides for the study of the Maqam, founder of multiple musical ensembles who collaborated with renowned artists such as Kobi Oz, Yair Dalal, Morris ElMadyoni, Bari Saharof and others. 

Private Lessons: Persian Singing

Graduate of the Center for Mid-East Music, student of Keyhan Ne’eman, former teacher at the Shnihal Academy of music in Iran, singer and creator of Classical and Folk Persian music.

Private Lessons: Voice training and Iraqi Singing

Graduate of Center for Mid-East Music, performs as a singer locally and Internationally. Dr. of musicology, voice trainer for more than 20 years, authorized teacher at “The road to voice discovery”. Student of Dr. Abraham Shoshani in the art of performance.  

Private Lessons: Turkish and Ladino Singing

Group Lessons: Turkish Ensemble 

Doctorate student at the Hebrew University, graduate of the Academy of Music in Istanbul, expert in classical Ottoman music and the Turkish Maqam.  

Private lessons: Arabic Singing

Group Lessons: Arabic Song Ensamble

MA and teacher’s certification from the Academy of Music in Jerusalem, expert in the fields of Arab singing, pedagogy and methodology. 

Private Lessons: Qanun

Group Lessons: Ensemble of Iraqi Music

Graduate of the Center for Mid-East Music, student of Elad Harel. Has played with famous cantors and musicians such as David Menahem, Moshe Habusha, Eliyahu Uzan, Mark Eliyahu, Elad Gabbay and others

Private lessons: Kamancheh

Graduate of center for Mid-East music and the Eastern department at the Academy for Music in Jerusalem. Student of Ariel Ragimov, Deria Turkan, and Mark Eliyahu. Specialized in the Azeri “Mugam” tradition with international masters.  

Private Lessons: Ney and Setar

Group Lessons: Persian Radif Ensemble

Graduate of the Center for Mid-East Music. One of the premier Ney players in the country, performs with the Andalusian and Jerusalem East-West Orchestras.

Specialized in the Persian Tar as a student of Sahba Motallebi, Hamid Khabazi and prof. Hossein Alizadeh. Has a Masters degree from the Musicology at the Hebrew University

Private Lessons: Oud

Group Lessons: Classical Arabic Music Ensemble

Completed his Doctorates in the Department of Musicology at the University of Haifa. Expert in Oud and history of Middle Eastern music. 

Private Lessons: Indian Singing

Group Lessons: Vocal Training, Indian Music

Studied in Varanasi, India, with the renowned teacher Mangale Tiwari, and in Varanasi University with prof. Ritvik Saniel. Expert in classic and folk Indian songs. 

Group Lessons: Western Theory and Solfege 

Lecturer at the Department of Musicology at the Hebrew University, teaches courses in the history of music and solfege. 

Private Lessons: Santur

Student of Keyhan Ne’eman in Santur and Persian Music. PHD in Ethnomusicology at the Hebrew University. Author of the Persian music section of the Open University manual. 

Private Lessons: Saz

Graduate of the Department for Eastern Music at the Academy of Music in Jerusalem. A student of Yochai Barack and Jihan Turkuglu. Specializes in modern and traditional Oud and Saz playing.  

Group Lessons: Western Music Theory and Developing Hearing

Singer and creator, BA in composition and MA in Arabic singing at the Academy for Music in Jerusalem. 

Private lessons: Arab Violine, Religious Cantor

Musician, violin and Oud player. Expert in Arabic music, Maqam and Traditional Jewish Song (Piyut). Student of Murad Salman, part of various professional music projects. 

Private Lessons: Indian Bansuri Flute

Group Lessons: Improvisation and Composition in World Music

MA in Musicology at Haifa University. Student of Pandit Harry Prasad a renowned Indian musician. Teacher at the Academy of Music in Jerusalem, has appeared in many esteemed music festivals locally and internationally.

Private Lessons: Oud

Group Lessons: Arabic Classic Music Ensemble

Graduate of the Center for Mid-East Music. Oud, Guitar and Lira player, composer, and teacher. Part of “Sumak Trio”, and the Sufi Ensemble.

Private Lessons: Buzuki, and Greek Singing

Graduate of the Rubin Academy, Musical manager of “Red Rose” Ensemble, performs locally and internationally.

Private Lessons: Flamenco Guitar

Group Lessons: Flamenco Ensemble

BA in Musicology and Teacher’s Diploma from the Hebrew University. Lived in Spain where he learnt and became an expert of Flamenco Music.