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Michal Tal
Israeli. Pianist. As one of Israel's leading pianists, she has served since 2004, as the vice-director of the Givatayim Conservatory. Michal teaches, coaches and lectures at the Thelma Yelin High School for the Arts, the Jerusalem Music Center and the Tel Aviv Academy of Music. For many years she has promoted musical education in Israel. Michal Tal enjoys a versatile career as a soloist, chamber musician and as a devoted performer of new music.
Coming from a musical family, Michal started her piano lessons at the age of five. At the age of 16 she performed as a soloist with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. She studied at The Tel Aviv Academy of Music, and from 1983-1988 at Indiana University, and also in New York at The Juilliard School, and SUNY at Stony Brook with Richard Goode, Leon Fleischer, Richard Goode and Gilbert Kalish. She was coached by Janos Starker, Joseph Gingold, James Buswell, Julius Levinne and Ray De Roche. She gave masterclasses and special coaching in the United States. She finished the PHD in Jerusalem at Hebrew University (2005). She has played with all the leading orchestras in Israel as well as many other orchestras, such as the Virginia and Dallas Symphonies, the Strasbourg Philharmonic, the Munster Symphony and the Dutch Radio Orchestra. She played under the baton of Leonard Slatkin, Eduardo Mata and Luciano Berio.
She participated in numerous concerts and special festivals such as Carnegie Recital Hall, the Tel Aviv Museum, the Tanglewood festival, Lincoln Center "Focus" Festival, the festival for Israeli Music in KÖLN, the Israel Festival and the Kefar Blum Chamber Music Festival. She has recorded live and in studio more than 40 recordings for Israel Broadcasting Authorities since 1979. Michal Tal is the prize winner of many competitions such as the first prize at the, international competition in Dallas, the Jerusalem Symphony Competition first prize, and the Ministry of Education and culture prize in 2000 and 2005.
Michal Tal collaborates with many Israeli composers. Recently, 4 new CDs of Israeli new music has been released by her. In 2003, she founded the Israeli Chamber Music Club, specializing in Israeli new music. The ICMC has won recently the ministry of culture special prize. Michal's myspace page is: www.myspace.com/pianistal .
Michal is married to the conductor Shlomo Tintpulver and has two children: Shiri, 12 years old, and Yonatan, 8. Both are playing cello and violin, and participating in the musical activities of their parents.
http://www.michaltal.com
www.myspace.com/pianistal
Yaara Tal
Israeli. Born February 27, 1955. Pianist. Partner with Andreas Groethuysen, specializing in playing piano duos. Studied with Asriel Beresowski, Ilona Vincze and Arie Vardi at the Music Academy in Tel Aviv. Studied composition with Andre Hajdu. Released a complete edition of Schubert's piano compositions for four-hands in 1996. (7 CDs).
Nomi Teplow
American born Israeli soprano, vocal coach and songwriter. Born in Ohio. Attended Columbia University for undergraduate and graduate studies. Member of the Metropolitan Singers Choral Society (Lincoln Center). Student of Agnes Massini (Rubin Academy of Music) after coming to Israel, 1990. Sang with the Tel-Aviv Philharmonic Choir, participated in several Israel Festival and on Israeli radio. Worked with leading Israeli popular artists such as Yoni Rechter and Shlomo Gronich. Nomi's first CD, consisting of her original songs, is "Kumi Ori" (Arise Shine).S he gives voice and performance workshops in schools and to choirs throughout Israel, and is a vocal coach to high schools students from prestigious arts schools throughout Israel.
Her New Album is : “My Brothers I Seek” with The Shir-El Choir of Ulpanat Lehava Kedumim.
http://www.nomi.co.il/index.htm
Rebecca Teplow
American. Singer-songwriter. Rebecca Teplow began her musical path as a classically trained violinist while attending Yeshiva of Flatbush elementary school in Brooklyn, NY. After graduating from the prestigious High School of Performing Arts, Rebecca then went on to pursue a degree in Music Performance where she studied under violinist Itzhak Perlman and composer Robert Starer. Eventually, her thoughts turned from instrumental performance to the creation of music. Rebecca's desire to write songs was realized with the release of
her first CD T'filot/Prayers (2004). She released her
second CD Kaveh/Hope (2008) to good reviews.
http://www.rebeccateplow.com
Hanna Tiferet
Songwriter, singer, liturgical leader.
"Hanna was the first woman to receive the title of "Eshet Hazon"— Woman of Vision, and "Miyoledet Neshama" —Midwife of the Soul. She received ordination as a rabbinic pastor from Reb Zalman Schachter-Shalomi and studied at the Hebrew Univerity in Jerusalem as a Melton Senior Educator. She is currently co-spiritual leader at Congregation B'nai Or of Boston." CDs include "Awaken, Arise" and "Kol Koreh: A Voice Calls," "Olamama," "Refuah Shleyma: The Healing Circle," "And You Shall Teach Your Children," and "Or Shalom." Her website lists CDs, teachings, songbooks and contact information. Hanna Tiferet Siegel.FAX: 617-363-0371 E-mail: hanna@hannatiferet.com
www.hannatiferet.com
Jennie Tourel
Born, June 22, 1900, Vitebsk, Russia. Died November 23, 1973, New York. Mezzo-soprano. At Opéra Comique
for ten years. During WWII, Tourel espcaped through Portugal, then Cuba and finally NY. After an audition with toscanini, she appeared with New York Philharmonic and other major orchestras. Debuted at the Metropolitan Opera in May, 1937 and first appeared in Israel in 1949. Taught at Julliard in New York and in Jerusalem at the Rubin Academy. She was a great friend of Leonard Bernstein, who wrote Jeremiah Symphony to fit her coloratura mezzo-soprano voice. A picture from the Perry Collection at the University of Buffalo shows a picture of Tourel at the Russian Tea Room in NY.
Tsipi (Zarenka)
Female vocalist from Israel. Tours widely in US. Website includes brief bio and a listening area with music divided by language. A video clip of her singing at the FestiLadino in 2005 on her gallery pages.
http://www.tzipi.com/
Tsufit
Israeli born singer songwriter. Her website bio reads: "By the age of 5, Tsufit, who had already lived in three countries, was putting on shows for the neighbourhood kids. By junior high, she joined a folk club that performed for the school. At age 14, she picked up the guitar at camp and a few years later, while still in high school, she started writing her own songs and performing at local folk clubs. A vivacious actress who was often cast in comedic roles in theatrical productions, Tsufit was shy in live concert situations. She had won several talent shows by singing pretty little songs until one day a friend of her mother told her to get her face out of the guitar and talk to the audience. Tsufit developed an audience banter that eventually led to spots on national television comedy shows such as "She's so Funny" on WTN and "System Crash" on YTV on which she has a recurring role. She picked up a law degree along the way before coming full circle, back to the beautiful melodies that inspired her to become a performer in the first place, now with a confidence and warmth that has endeared her to audiences at clubs, concert halls and festivals across Canada and led to live radio appearances on such programs as CBC’s Vinyl Café with Stuart McLean."
http://www.tsufit.com/index.html
Sophie Tucker
One of the earliest Jewish popular music stars to entertain general as well as Jewish audiences, Sophie Tucker was born January 13, 1884 somewhere between Russia and Poland as her parents were coming to America. She arrived as an infant in the U.S. in 1884. Her parents, Charlie and Jennie Abuza, (name was changed from Kalish by the father to avoid Russian army)went to Boston and then to Hartford, Connecticut where the family opened a restaurant and rooming house. Sophie loved entertaining and used every opportunity as a young girl to show off, sometimes singing for customers. She dreamed of becoming a star and performed in some amateur groups at the local theater.
After high school she married a young trucker named Louis Tuck, and they had one son, Bert. Louis didn't make much money and Sophie had to work in her parents' restaurant to make ends meet. When Louis left her and the baby, Sophie determined to make her way in New York and left her baby with the family. She changed her name to "Tucker" and began her career in Greenwich Village where she earned enough to both live and send some money home to Hartford. While Sophie suffered the condemnation of neighbors back home as being "no good" for leaving her child, and for being in the undesirable 'popular' theatre, she was determined to return home a star.
Sophie fell into singing in the ubiquitous vaudeville manner at the turn of the twentieth century-- as blackface performer-- and one of the first women to do so. Eventually, she began adding Yiddish to some of her act, embracing more and more blues and jazz and finally adding comedy stunts. Sophie Tucker was a large overweight woman and considered by many stage managers as rather unattractive. She turned that perception to a marketable advantage performing ribald, sexy and even vulgar songs. Tucker was a self-described "red-hot mama" and known for songs about women's sexual desires, and romantic passions. Given her own leanings toward 'unconventional' behavior, it is no surprise she is considered by some as an early champion of liberation and independence for women. Her music ridiculed much of the conventional mores of the day. Nevertheless, after about 1916, she moved from vaudeville to evening supper clubs where this type of entertainment was more accepted.
In 1925, her mother, Jennie died and Sophie became despondent. She was unable to work until Lou Pollack and Jack Yellen, two close associates, wrote "My Yiddishe Mama" for her to sing. This sentimental ballad was seen both as a song of grief as well as the triumph of her immigrant, but courageous and powerful mother. This song, along with "Some of These Days" (her "red-hot" routine, first recorded February 24, 1911,for the Edison Company), became her signature song and was beloved by Jews in the US and in Europe wherever Tucker toured.
Sophie Tucker wrote an autobiography published in 1945, Some of These Days, in which she describes her rise to stardom. Her active performing continued to acclaim until the 1960's. She died on February 9, 1966. An archive of her papers is kept in the Performing Arts division of the New York Public Library. To view an online finding aid and information about this collection, go to the NYPL Digial Library Collections website and scroll down to Sophie Tucker. Tucker (Sophie) Collection, [ca. 1909-ca. 1960]Collection number: JPB 81-7. Music Division.
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
by S. Pinnolis. 03/2000.
Roselyn Tureck
American. Born December 14, 1914,in Chicago. Pianist. Graduated Julliard School of Music, 1935. Studied with Olga Samaroff. Carnegie Hall Debut Oct. 18, 1935. and Town Hall Young Artist Award with all-Bach concert over six weeks in 1937. She taught extensively in the New York area, and also toured frequently in Europe, Israel, South Africa and South America. Recorded Bach and other keyboard reportoire for harpsichord, clavichord and organ. Recipient of five honorary doctorates. Publications included Introduction to the Performance of Bach (1960). Taught at Mannes College (1940-1944); Julliard (1943-1955); Univ. of California at San Diego (1966-1972) and Yale (1991-1993). In 1994 she founded the Tureck Bach Research Institute at Oxford. Her CDs are still widely available. Many of her papers are held at the Special Collections of Mugar Library, Boston University and at the New York Public Library, Music Division at Lincoln Center.