AICF 72nd Anniversary Gala Concert - Participating Artists

Artist Name	Artist Bio	Location
Tamar Latzman	Tamar Latzman is an Israeli artist currently based in New York. She is a graduate of the Photography and New Media department at Haddas College, Jerusalem, Israel, 2004, as well as Hamisrasha College of Art, Israel. Latzman is a recent graduate of th ...	New York, NY USA	View Profile	View Art
Itamar Jobani	Itamar Jobani was born in Israel in 1980, and currently lives and works New York. He graduated from Beit-Berl Collage, Israel, with a major in Fine Arts where after his graduation, he joined as part of the faculty and taught there Video-Art and New- Media ...	Brooklyn, NY USA	View Profile	View Art
Maya Barkai	Born in Jerusalem, Israel, Barkai is a graduate of the School of Visual Arts’ Photography Department (BFA 2005), and has been based in New York City for the past nine years. She spent her military service in the Israeli Defense Forces as a military phot ...	New York, NY USA	View Profile	View Art
Shai Zurim	Shai Zurim was born in Israel, and earned his BFA from Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem (1999), and his MFA from the School of Visual Arts MFA Studies in Fine Arts, New York City, (2009). Zurim’s work encompasses myriad forms and is drawn ...	Brooklyn, NY USA	View Profile	View Art
Orit Ben-Shitrit	Orit Ben-Shitrit is a visual artist, filmmaker and choreographer educated in New York and showing internationally. A trained classical and modern ballet dancer, Orit has been utilizing movement and bodies to address issues of domination and the potent ...	Brooklyn, NY USA	View Profile	View Art
Tamar Ettun	Tamar Ettun graduated from Yale University School of Art, with an MFA in Sculpture. She studied at Cooper Union in 2007, while earning her BFA from Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem, where she graduated with honors. Ettun has previously cura ...	Brooklyn, NY USA	View Profile	View Art
Noa Charuvi	Born in Jerusalem, Israel, Noa moved to New York City to pursue a Master's degree in Fine Arts at the School of Visual Arts. After completing her studies, Noa stayed in New York City where she currently lives and works. In 2010 she has been awarded partic ...	New York, NY USA	View Profile	View Art
Anat Even Or	Anat Even-Or was born in Tel-Aviv, Israel. She is an MFA Graduate from the 'Illustration as a Visual Essay' program at The School of Visual Arts, and BFA in design and illustration from The Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem. Anat ...	Brooklyn, NY USA	View Profile	View Art
Assa Bigger	Assa Bigger is a multi-media artist who lives and works in Manhattan. His oeuvre is vast and seemingly boundless as it juxtaposes the limits of formalism and, instead, generates an excessive density of both image and object, leaving meaning in the experi ...	New York, NY USA	View Profile	View Art
Inbal Abergil	Inbal Abergil is a photographer who was born in Jerusalem, Israel and currently resides in New York City. She studied photography at Jerusalem’s Hadassah College in 2001 and received her B.Ed.F.A. with honors in 2007 from the Midrasha School of Art. In ...	New York, NY USA	View Profile	View Art
Meital Gueta	Meital Gueta is a graphic artist born in Israel, based in New York City. A 2010 graduate from the MFA Designer As Author program at the School of Visual Arts, New York, she received her undergraduate degree in Visual Communication from Bezalel Academy of ...	Brooklyn, NY USA	View Profile	View Art
Boaz Vaadia	Boaz Vaadia is an internationally recognized sculptor who has been working in New York City for over 30 years. Vaadia’s work is sited in many private and public collections and museums throughout the world, such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art i ...		View Profile	View Art
Guy Ben-Ari	Guy Ben-Ari - born (1984) in Tel-Aviv, Israel. lives and works in New York City. Recently, he received his MFA from Columbia University’s School of the Arts. Ben-Ari received his BFA with honors from Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem where ...	Brooklyn, NY USA	View Profile	View Art
Assaf Evron	Assaf Evron is an MFA candidate at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). His photographs and photo-based works focus on the structures and forms of the overlooked, and reveal it as a visual state of simultaneous excess and deficiency. Evron ...	Tel Aviv, ISR	View Profile	View Art
Avital Burg	Avital Burg is an Israeli Painter, currently residing in Brooklyn, NY. Burg attended the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem, and completed a master class program at Hatahana School of Figurative Painting and Drawing, Tel Aviv. Burg currently att ...	Brooklyn, NY USA	View Profile	View Art
Efrat Kedem	Efrat Kedem is an artist who was born 1980 in Jerusalem, Israel, and currently resides in Princeton, NJ. She received her B.Ed.F.A. (2005) from the Midrasha School of Art. And graduated with honors her M.F.A. (2008) studies at ...	Princeton, NJ USA	View Profile	View Art
Naomi Safran-Hon	Born in Oxford England in 1984 Safran-Hon grew up in Haifa, Israel. She received her BA Summa Cum Laude from Brandeis University, 2008 in Studio Art and Art History and an MFA from Yale University School of Art in 2010. In 2003 Safran-Hon received the You ...	Brooklyn, NY USA	View Profile	View Art
Shai Kremer	Shai Kremer currently resides between the three different countries of France, Israel, and the United States. He completed his his M.F.A. at the School of Visual Arts in New York, NY, with studies in photography and related media. Kremer has always mainta ...	New York, NY USA	View Profile	View Art
Nurit Bar-Shai	Nurit Bar-Shai is a multimedia artist working at the interface between art, science and technology. She was exhibited at the OK-Center in Linz, The National Art Center Tokyo, SESI Gallery in Sao Paulo, the Science Gallery in Dublin, The State Museum o ...	Brooklyn, NY USA	View Profile	View Art
Gabriela Vainsencher	Gabriela Vainsencher was born in Buenos Aires and raised in Tel Aviv. She received a B.ED in Fine Art from Hamidrsha School of art in 2005, and moved to New York the same year. Her drawings, videos and installations have been shown in solo and group exhib ...	Brooklyn, NY USA	View Profile	View Art
Ronen Shai	Israel-born composer Ronen Shai is a Doctor of Musical Arts candidate at Manhattan School of Music in New York. He holds a Master's degree in composition from Manhattan School of Music and a Bachelor's degree in composition from the Jerusalem Academy of M ...	New York, NY USA	View Profile	View Art
Tomer Adaddi	Composer, pianist, arranger and musical producer Tomer Adaddi was born in Israel in 1983. He finished his Masters in composition at Mannes College of Music in New York City, where he was the reipient of the Felix Saltzer Techniques of Music Award 2011. He ...	New York, NY USA	View Profile	View Art
Miriam Fried	Miriam Fried has been recognized for years as one of the world’s preeminent violinists. A consummate musician—equally accomplished as recitalist, concerto soloist or chamber musician—she has been heralded for her “fiery intensity and emotional dep ...	Baltimore, MD USA	View Profile
Sivan Magen	Born in Jerusalem, Sivan Magen studied the piano with Professor Benjamin Oren and Talma Cohen and the harp with Irena Kaganovsky at the Jerusalem Academy for Music and Dance. After finishing his military service as an "Outstanding Musician" in 2001, he co ...	Brooklyn, NY USA	View Profile
Bavat Marom	Bavat Marom, an Israeli-born mezzo-soprano, began her artistic way as a painter, a dancer, and a composition student of Prof. Abel Ehrlich. Her vocal studies started at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, and she subsequently moved on to the Curtis Institute of Mu ...	Southbury, CT USA	View Profile
Hadar Noiberg	Since arriving in New York City at age 21, flutist, composer and arranger Hadar Noiberg has established herself as a major force in the Cuban, Jazz, and World music scenes. With a language that transcends her Middle Eastern roots, she fuses styles seamle ...	Brooklyn, NY USA	View Profile
Izzy (Israel) Gliksberg	Izzy Gliksberg completed his Bachelors degree in the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance where he studied with Professor Michael Wolpe (composition) and Professor Zecharya Plavin (piano). Izzy's compositions and arrangements were commissioned a ...	New York, NY USA	View Profile
Ronnie Reshef	Ronnie Reshef is a composer and performer of concert music and music for theatre and films. Ronnie’s works were commissioned and performed by groups such as the Mannes Circe Ensemble, Israeli Chamber Project, NY Syzygy Ensemble, and the Israeli P ...	New York, NY USA	View Profile
Oran Eldor	Oran Eldor is a composer of original music for Broadway, Off-Broadway and Israeli National Theater and Television, including: The Pink Campaign, Snapshots, Map Quest,The Angel, Fence, Games in Backyard, Crime Animals, Rhythm Machine, SuperSpy, and Sesa ...	New York, NY USA	View Profile
Yoed Nir	Born in Israel in 1980, Yoed is a classically trained cellist who began his music studies at the age of seven at the Tel Aviv Conservatory. He is a 2005 graduate of the Jerusalem Music Academy. He has won numerous competitions and scholarships, including ...	New York, NY USA	View Profile
Michael Katz	Described by the press as “outstanding” and “warm-toned,” Israeli Cellist Michael Katz has appeared as a soloist and chamber musician in concerts and festivals around the world. He has performed at music festiv ...	New York, NY USA	View Profile
Elad Kabilio	Israeli cellist Elad Kabilio is an active soloist, chamber musician, and a teaching artist. He has recently performed at Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, the Morgan Library, the Jewish Museum and the Polish Consulate in New York City. ...	New York, NY USA	View Profile
Rafi Malkiel	Composer, trombonist and euphonium player Rafi Malkiel, from Israel, has delighted audiences around the world, performing with artists such as Willie Colon, Arturo O’Farrill, Ray Anderson, and with Grammy-nominated Colombian singer Toto La Momposina, an ...	NY, NY USA	View Profile
	Uri started playing saxophone when he was ten years old. At eighteen, Uri was accepted to do his mandatory military service at the prestigious Israeli Air Force Orchestra. During his army service, Uri enrolled in the Rimon School of Music in Tel Aviv. ...	Brooklyn, NY USA	View Profile
Moran Katz	Clarinetist Moran Katz has toured extensively through the U.S., Europe and East Asia as a soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician. Her engagements for the 2004-05 season included performances in France, Germany, Holland, Israel, North Carolina, Californ ...	New York, NY USA	View Profile
Shauli Einav	"Shauli Einav is a Titan of the tenor saxophone, a superman of the soprano saxophone, and a blowing bundle of virtuosity." Jazz Inside Magazine " ...with his expressive horn, imaginative pen and confident band leading, Einav is already se ...	New York, NY USA	View Profile
Nadav Lev	An Andres Segovia Award winner (Musica en Compstela, Spain 2006), Nadav Lev is a prominent guitarist and composer. His playing was described as: “exceptionally musical and cleanly articulated performance... had the sold out room in hushed and admiring s ...	Brooklyn, NY USA	View Profile
Ronen Itzik	Ronen Itzik is a multi-talented performer and composer. Audiences worldwide are captivated by his virtuosity, profound musicality and the passion he brings to performances. He has performed and recorded with such jazz greats as Kenny Werner, Roy Hargrove, ...	Brooklyn, NY USA	View Profile
Re'ut Ben-Ze'ev	Re’ut Ben-Ze’ev has won critical acclaim for her “intense expression and pure voice” (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung), “impassioned” (The New York Times) interpretations and “emotionally and vocally masterful performance” (	New York, NY USA	View Profile
Noam Sivan	Noam Sivan is a versatile musician, combining composition, piano performance, live improvisation, and conducting. He has appeared as composer and pianist in the United States, Canada, England, France, Austria, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, Italy, the Phi ...	New York, NY USA	View Profile
	Omer started performing as a dancer at the age of nine in "Gvanim" dance troupe, Israel. After nine years of performing all over the world and studying theater and music, he started his military service as a soloist in the Israeli Air Force Band and perfo ...	New York, NY USA	View Profile
Hani Furstenberg	Although born and raised in New York, until recently Hani Furstenberg has focused most of her acting career in Israel, where she is an award-winning actress on both the stage and the big screen. She moved with her family to Tel Aviv after studying at New ...	New York, NY USA	View Profile
Mika Hary	The Mika Hary Group embraces the genres of folk, rock and jazz with a touch of the Middle Eastern unique colors that Mika was immersed in growing up in Israel. Together with the acclaimed musicians in her band, she explores song-form infused with musical ...	Brooklyn, NY USA	View Profile
Perry Tal	Violinist Perry Tal was awarded the 2009 Outstanding Musician Distinction Award from Maestro Zubin Mehta in recognition of her superb musical activity at the honor scholarship program of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and the Buchman Mehta School of Mu ...	Boston, MA USA	View Profile
Oran Eldor	Oran Eldor is a composer of original music for Broadway, Off-Broadway and Israeli National Theater and Television, including: The Pink Campaign, Snapshots, Map Quest,The Angel, Fence, Games in Backyard, Crime Animals, Rhythm Machine, SuperSpy, and Sesa ...	New York, NY USA	View Profile
Jonathan Keren	A native of Israel, Jonathan Keren is a composer, arranger and violinist, currently living in New York. A recent award winner from the Koussevitzky Foundation (2007), Keren is also a recipient of ASCAP’s Young Composers’ Award prize and Scholarships f ...	New York, NY USA	View Profile
	Pianist Shai Maestro was born in Israel on February 5th, 1987. He began playing classical piano at the age of 5. His first exposure to jazz music was at the age of 8, listening to Oscar Peterson's "Gershwin Songbook". He was later accepted to the Thelma � ...	New York, NY USA	View Profile
Ady Cohen	Ady Cohen is a film composer who also composes music for the stage, television and the concert hall. He is the winner of the 1998 Israeli Academy Award for Best Film Score. The film, Dangerous Acts, won seven Israeli Academy Awards, including Best ...	Southbury, CT USA	View Profile
Semion Gavrikov	Semion Gavrikov, born in the Ukraine, began studying the violin at age 5. He attended the Ukraine art school under Igor Kuzmienko. In 1998, he immigrated to Israel and started his studies in the Israeli Conservatory under Lena Mazor and Irena Svetlova and ...	New York, NY USA	View Profile
Alon Nechushtan	A talent to watch, with a surfeit of ideas, an unbridled spirit and bold, two-fisted sense of Architecture" - Down Beat Magazine 2011 Alon Nechushtan's music adventures has brought him to far corners of the world, playing at the Yokoh ...	New York, NY USA	View Profile