Iris Malkin (left) and Ido Ariel (right).
Join us in person at UCLA for a Sunday afternoon of Israeli art songs with Iris Malkin, Israeli-born mezzo-soprano and UCLA lecturer, and special guest Ido Ariel, Israeli pianist and past dean of the Jerusalem Academy for Music and Dance, and enjoy complimentary bagels, sweets, and coffee.
Sunday, February 2, 20251:00 PMLani HallUCLA Schoenberg Music Building
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Organized by the UCLA Lowell Milken Center for Music of American Jewish Experience. Co-sponsored by the UCLA Y&S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies.
About the Performance
An in-person concert/lecture at UCLA exploring the beauties and complexities of Israeli art song. Featured composers include Moses Milner, Paul Ben-Haim, Zvi Avni, Aharon Harlap, Ofer Ben-Amots and Menachem Weissenberg. Songs for voice and piano setting Hebrew poems have been composed since the early 20th century, reflecting Israel’s rich and complicated culture. Malkin and Ariel present this fascinating genre’s contrasting trends over 100 years of tensions between West and East, Zionism and Post-Zionism, Classical, and Popular music. The program will include songs in Hebrew, Yiddish and Ladino and a discussion moderated by Ariel. This concert is one of four events in the 2024-2025 Milken Center Chamber Music Series. Join us and enjoy complimentary bagels, sweets, and coffee.
About the Musicians
Israeli born Mezzo-Soprano, Pianist, and Vocal Coach Iris Malkin has performed widely both as a singer and as a pianist in concerts and festivals in Israel, Europe, and the United States, and her performances have been broadcast worldwide. In addition to the mainstream operatic repertoire, Iris has distinguished herself in the world of Hebrew and Jewish works as well as the highly nuanced Spanish song repertoire. She is an in-demand vocalist in recordings for films, movie trailers and video games. She is a featured soloist on the soundtrack of the film Kill Zone, which was nominated for Best Original Score at the Hollywood Music in Media Awards in 2009. Iris is on the faculty of the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music as a vocal coach—continuing lecturer in the voice department.
Dr. Ido Ariel is a pianist and accompanist, vocal coach, lecturer and translator, one of the leading figures in the field of the art song in Israel. He is the founder and director of ‘Lieder in Pita-bread’ – an Israeli home for the art song. He chaired the Vocal Department at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, where he later also served as Dean of Students. He also founded and directed the “Shira-Shir” concert series, which presented classical as well as Israeli art songs performed by prominent Israeli singers. Ido is an award-winning graduate of the Beer-Sheva Conservatory, The Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance and The Royal College of Music, London.
DISCLAIMER: The views or opinions of our guest speakers and the content of their presentations do not necessarily reflect the views of the UCLA Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for Israel Studies. Hosting speakers does not constitute an endorsement of the speaker's views or opinions.
Sponsor(s): UCLA Lowell Milken Center for Music of American Jewish Experience