About

Tom Belkind is an Israeli Composer, music producer and sound engineer, Based in Cologne, Germany. He was born in 1990 in Tel Aviv, Israel. His compositional style is trying to combine his origins in popular and music production with the abstract mean of expression, using the materialistic and physical elements of the sound production and layering different sounds in order to create different levels of intensity and sound energy.

In 2016, Belkind started pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in Composition in The Buchmann Mehta School of music (TLV University) with Composers Josef Bardanashvili and Ruben Seroussi. In 2020, Belkind Started his Masters Degree in the “Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln”  with Composer Miroslav Srnka. In 2021 he won the Bernd Alois Zimmermann scholarship for New music composition from the City of Cologne, as part of it was a portrait concert with his music at St. Peter church in Cologne. In 2022 he won the DAAD scholarship for music graduate studies. 

Pieces by him were performed in Israel and Germany by Orchestras and Ensembles like  Ensemble Recherche (Freiburg, Germany), Meitar Ensemble (Israel), Ensemble Musikfabrik (Cologne/ Germany), Ensemble Erma (Cologne/ Germany) and Jack quartet (New york/ USA) and the Aachen Theater Orchester (2022). His works were played on festivals like Acht Brücken( Cologne, Germany), Wittener neue Kammermusik Tage (Witten ,Germany), CEME (Tel-Aviv, Israel) and Contcomp (Haifa, Israel). He took part in Composition workshops with composers like Helmut Lachenmann, Mauro Lanze, Carola Bauckholt and Philippe Leroux.  “

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