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// The creators of the ensemble

Shosh Reisman

Composer

Graduate of the Academy of Music and the Department of Philosophy at Tel Aviv University. Studied composition in Israel and abroad. Studied voice development with Prof. Hanna HaCohen and completed her studies with the late Prof. Mira Zakai.


Composed the music for the Passport Ensemble's "Exposed Concrete" show.


Teaches in the theater department at Tel Aviv University and at the Kibbutzim Seminar. She taught for many years at Beit Zvi and for several years at Yoram Levinstein's acting school.


She has composed music for dozens of plays in Israeli theaters, including:


At the Cameri Theater: "The Rubber Merchants", "Shit", "Yantel", "Another Place", "Hamlet", "Deborah in the Coffin".


At the Habima Theater: "Ghosts", "Tybella and Her Demon", "The Maiden and Death", "Hedda Gabler", "Our Beating".


At the Beer Sheva Theater: "Under Milkwood," "Three Sisters," "Choir of Disagreement," and most recently - "If We Know How to Love," adaptations of Jacques Berle's poems.


At the Haifa Theater: "Arturo Oi", "Madeline", "The Assistant", "Six Souls Seeking a Friend".


At the Khan Theater: "A Man is a Man", "May 35", "The Oresteia".


On the Fringe: "Mud", "Dionysus in the Chin", "Fear of the Event".


She also composed for many plays at Beit Zvi, the Kibbutzim Seminary, and Tel Aviv University.


She directed at the Acre Festival, the Kibbutzim Seminar, and Theatronto.


Won many awards at the Acre Festival: "Az Kamuot", Acre Festival 1988 - for this play she won the Tzelash Award for a unique combination of music and direction; "Shards", "A Hymn to David" and "Alley of White Chairs".


She won the Fringe Award for the music for "Mud" and the Landau Lottery Award for lifetime achievement in composition and teaching.


Wrote three operas:


"The Opera Girls of Toledo" — written especially for the 1992 Israel Festival.


"The Nightingale and the Rose" — written for a gifted class at Tel Aviv University.


"There's a Dragon in the Yarkon" — for the Children's Plays Festival in Haifa, and won the award for composition.


At the beginning of her career, she accompanied plays with music, composed for educational television — "Shoeik," "Neighborhood of Life" — and improvised on Yaron London's interview show, "Tando."


She released a record of her songs, "What a Beautiful Day," composed for KPM in London, and provided musical direction for the tour of the play "Ghetto" in the US.

Shosh Reisman

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