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Ziv Braha
Ziv Braha, born 1977 in Be'er Ya'cov, Israel.
At 14 he started learning the electrical guitar, and then changed to the lute at 17. With his first lute teacher, Isidoro Roitman, he studied first privately and then at the Music Academy in Jerusalem where he graduated in June 2000 with a B.Mus. diploma. In Israel Ziv Braha was very active as a continuo player on the archlute, working with young ensembles, baroque orchestras, accompanying a course on baroque singing, singer's recitals, and teaching chamber music in a private art school. In addition he was working with two fixed ensembles, with one of which he went on a tour as part of the Brezice Early Music Festival and had a live radio broadcast on the Israeli classical music radio station “Kol Hamusica”. While concluding his studies in Jerusalem he auditioned to study with Hopkinson Smith at the Schola Cantorum in Basel, was accepted for an Aufbaustudium and moved there in February 2001.
Ever since coming under the master’s influence more care has been directed to the fine nuance of practice and performance of music for the lute, which led to Ziv's growing focus on the solo lute repertoire and his search for the precious and the peace bringing powers of music.
The first year in Basel saw thus his first solo recitals on the renaissance lute in Jerusalem, Basel and Germany. At the same time he started studying the theorbo and it was with the theorbo that he was asked to join a production for the Innsbruck Festwochen der Alten Musik of Monteverdi's Orpheo directed by René Jacobs. This production played in Berlin at the Stadt Theater the year after; he played with the Luzern Sinfonieorchester under Howard Arman; he performs with the Basler Madrigalisten at different festivals in Europe. In Belgium he recorded a CD with the Vlaamse Opera Orchestra of "The Liturgy of Orpheus" by Greek composer Yannis Markopoulos, performed with the Capella Vocale under the direction of Mark Goossens, and was engaged for solo recitals at the Dag Oude Muziek in Alden-Biesen , the Klara Festival in Brussels and the fringe program of the festival Oude Muziek Utrecht.
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Suites and Sonatas by S.L. Weiss
From Suites in the French style to his late Sonatas…
