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2021 Tzlil Meudcan Musicology Group

2021 Tzlil Meudcan Musicology Group

Uri Jacob is a musicologist and music performer. He has recently completed his dissertation on the musical responses to the crusades in France and Occitania at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His current projects focus on musical literacy in the crusader states during the 12th–13th centuries and on aspects of musical repetition in European vernacular lyric. At the same time he is a performer of classical guitar and early plucked instruments, recording and performing on many stages in Israel and abroad, among them with the Prefix Guitar Duo, Ensemble Modern (Frankfurt), the Israeli Contemporary Players, Meitar Ensemble, and the Israeli Opera House.

Dan Deutsch is an Azrieli postdoctoral fellow in the Musicology Department at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto Faculty of Music and the Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies. His research explores the negotiation of Jewishness in nineteenth-century German music; integrating methods of formal analysis and cultural history, he studies the instrumental music of German-Jewish composers as a network of musical formations and genres, socio-cultural realities, and collective and individual identities. Dan’s article “Fragmenting Monumentality: Discontinuity and Incompleteness in Mahler’s ‘Der Abschied’” is forthcoming with Music & Letters.

Tomer Damsky is a sound and stage artist. A graduate of the Musrara School of Art and Society and the Open University, she is currently a graduate student in the musicology department at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. A lecturer in the School of Visual Theater and choir conductor at Musrara, Tomer’s research interests include philosophies of listening, performance and social dissonance in the context of stimulation, existential boredom, and the human experience. Tomer creates, performs and designs sound for dance and theatre pieces. She is a member of Excessive Productions Collective whose sound installations featured in festivals and galleries across Israel and Europe. Tomer is the frontwoman of the audiovisual trio WACKELKONTAKT, she is active in the JLM extreme music community, and a founding member of Studio Straus. 

Amir Shohat studied composition at the Buchmann Mehta School of Music (Tel Aviv University, under Ms. Hadas Pe’ery and Prof. Josef Bardanashvilli). During his undergraduate studies he wrote an alternative soundtrack for Germaine Dulac’s 1928 film The Seashell and the Clergyman, which featured at the 2018 Tel Aviv Student Festival. Shohat is currently a graduate student at the joint track of the Jerusalem Music Academy and the Musicology Department at Hebrew University, studying composition with Dr. Ziv Cojocaru and plans to write his master’s thesis on the string quartets of Darius Milhaud. Currently, he is writing a soundtrack for a podcast mini-series of the “Standing Together” movement, which is scheduled to be released this summer.

Amir Lekach Aviv double majored inn Musicology and Earth Sciences at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he is currently a musicology graduate student. His main research interests concern the networks of Russian, Soviet, Yiddish, and Israeli musical cultures of the second half of the twentieth century. His current research is focused on the works Georgian-born Israeli composer Josef Bardanshvili.

Noam Peleg is a graduate student in the department of Musicology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her master’s thesis examines the music of Andre Hajdu (1932-2016), focusing particularly on his setting of texts from the Mishna in the early 1970s and their meaning in the bigger canvas of modern Jewish culture. 

Inbar Shifrin is a graduate student in the Department of Musicology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is currently writing her thesis on the musical renewal of the shabbat service in Reform synagogues in Israel, while conducting her ethnographic fieldwork at Ohel Avraham synagogue in Haifa. 

Hila Dominshtein has recently earned her Bachelor’s degree in the Business School and the Department of Musicology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. As a graduate student in the department of musicology she currently studies the histories and cultural histories of art music in the Soviet Union and Israel, focusing on the works and archives of emigrant composers like Mordecai Seter and Mark Kopytman.