Dr. Shai Cohen

AGENDA

May 10, 2022 | Who does not play the dice? - Comprovisation for the C Barré Ensemble | Inspired by "The Lottery in Babylon" by Jorge Luis Borges. The 7th International Conference on Technologies for Music Notation and Representation (TENOR), 9/10/11 May 2022, Marseille, France. | World premiere

March 1, 2022 | ER=EPR - or French Horn and Live electronics | Bram Vanoverberghe, MIRY Concertzaal the Royal Conservatory of Arts Ghent | Belgium | World premiere

February 8, 2021 | Remez - for Trombone and Piano | the winner of the V International Contest of Musical Composition Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Carlos, 2021 | Valencia, Spain | Slide Trombone: José Vicente Faubel, Piano: Carlos Apellániz | World premiere

BIO

Dr. Shai Cohen is a composer, educator, and jazz performer, chairman of the Israel Composers' League and an active member in ACUM, specializes in diverse fields ranging from free-improvisation to electronic and contemporary classical music.

His music has been played at events including "Asian Contemporary Music Festival" (2003/Japan, 2009/Korea, 2012/Israel, 2013/Singapore, 2016/Vietnam), "Moscow Autumn" ISCM contemporary music festival (2006), "Aberdeen Music Prize" (2011), 34th Annual "Bowling Green New Music Festival" (2013), "Israeli Music Festival" (2004, 2012) and performed by musicians and ensembles like the Vietnam National Symphony Orchestra (Vietnam), SNU Symphony Orchestra (Korea), the Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble (Moscow), members of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra (Scotland), Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music (Japan), T'ang Quartet (Singapore), St Andrews New Music Ensemble (Scotland), Ensemble New Babylon (Germany), Meitar Ensemble, Israel Contemporary Players, Kaprizma Ensemble, the Arab & Jewish ensembles of the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra, The Tel-Aviv Soloists Ensemble, The Israel Kibbutz Orchestra, Israel Sinfonietta orchestra of Beer-Sheva and many others.

CATALOG

SOLO MUSIC
CHAMBER MUSIC
OPERA / ORCHESTRA
INSTALLATIONS
FILM MUSIC
SHOWS AND PERFORMANCES
ELECTRONIC MUSIC
EDUCATIONAL WORKS