About
Tzlil Meudcan (Hebrew for “updated tone”) is an international festival and a research platform dedicated to Contemporary Chamber Music. Founded in 2007, Tzlil Meudcan takes place in Tel Aviv, Israel, every summer in early July. The festival’s core is the presentation of concerts featuring some of the most current and vibrant artists on the scene—composers & performers, alongside performances of long time classics. Concomitant with this concert activity, we’ve switched our attention from a composers’ hub (Between 2010 – 2018 we’ve ran a composers’ summer course led by composers Chaya Czernowin, Steven Takasugi, Pierluigi Billone & Jose Maria Sanchez Verdu among others) to a research oriented venue, which offers opportunities for musicologists to come and spend a week in Tel Aviv, present their work, contribute texts and insights on the festival’s content, and most importantly interact with other colleagues—local and International, musicians and musicologists.
artistic director
Yaron Deutsch
Yaron Deutsch is a Tivo’n based guitarist, member of the chamber quartet – Nikel – and a frequent guest in various European new music ensembles. Apart from his performative activities, he teaches guitar at the Darmstadt International Summer Courses.
musicology + research
Assaf Shelleg
Assaf Shelleg, is senior lecturer in the Department of Musicology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He had previously taught at the University of Virginia and at Washington University in St. Louis. Shelleg is the author of the award-winning book Jewish Contiguities and the Soundtrack of Israeli History (Oxford University Press, 2014) and the recently published Theological Stains: Art Music and the Zionist Project (Oxford University Press, 2020). Shelleg is also a regular musical contributor at Haaretz newspaper.
head of production
Dani Williamson
Dani Williamson is a Haifa-based multidisciplinary artist and producer working within the realms of video art, live AV performance, time-based events, sound and writing. They are an occasional noise maker creating digital, interactive, and celluloid experimental works which explore the tensions between virtual and physical space and how those spaces are experienced by others.
Past and present production experience includes: Tzlil Meudcan Festival, Israel Contemporary Players, Darmstadt International Summer Courses, and Donaueshingen Musiktage.
technical director
Aaron Holloway-Nahum
Aaron Holloway-Nahum is a London based composer, conductor and recording engineer. He’s the Artistic Director of Riot Ensemble, technical director of Nikel, and managing director of Coviello Music Productions. In addition to his performative work, Aaron is a visiting professor in the Sound Production course at the Hochschule Darmstadt and a composition tutor at Junior Trinity.
production assistant
Ilan Barkani
Ilan Barkani – Improviser, composer and teacher, based in Jaffa. A member of Sedek, an artistic collective operating in Jerusalem.
Studied cross-disciplinary composition at the Jerusalem Academy for Music and Dance.
production assistant
Nadav Melamed
Nadav Melamed is a Tel -Aviv based young composer and guitar/electronics improviser. Currently music composition student and composer assistant .
