Eva Ben-Zvi

Eva Ben-Zvi (Hebrew: אוה בן צבי; born Chaja Ermanaite, Kaunas May 7, 1947) is a Lithuanian-born Israeli soprano. She teaches singing at Bar-Ilan University.^[1][2] She has made several notable premiere performances and premiere recordings of Jewish music. She premiered Gabriel Iranyi's song cycle The Hymns of Job in 1993.^[3]

Under Russian conductors she made the world premiere recordings of Op79a, the Yiddish version of Shostakovich's songs From Jewish Folk Poetry.^[4] and also the solo role of Anne Frank in Grigory Frid's opera The Diary of Anne Frank.

Discography

• "I Will Walk in the Land of the Living Ethalech be'artsot hachayim- Rachel Galinne (2008)^[5]
• "Musiques Juives Russes (Jewish Music from Russia)"- Shostakovich (2000)^[6]
• "Stride Between Verses" – Israeli Art Songs. IMC (Israeli Music Center) (1998)^[7]
• "Simeni Kahotam Al Libeha" - Anatolijus Senderovas (1992)^[8]
• "The Diary of Anne Frank" - Grigory Frid (1991)^[9]

References

1. בן-צבי אווה | המחלקה למוזיקה
2. habama.co.il אמנים - אוה בן צבי - הבמה
3. Twenty Israeli Composers: Voices of a Culture Robert Jay Fleisher - 1997- Page 225 "In Israel, soprano Eva Ben-Zvi and pianist Natasha Tadson premiered Iranyi's The Hymns of Job (1993)."
4. DSCH Journal - Issues 9-13 - Page 91 1998 "One would not expect a soprano as brightly toned as Eva Ben-Zvi to be ideally suited to this cycle, ..."
5. Ben-Zvi, Eva (2008). I will walk in the land of the living Ethalech be'artsot hachayim (Media notes) (in Hebrew). performed by Nicholas Carthy, conductor ; Eva Ben-Zvi, sopran ; Orit Orbach, clarinet ; Gilad Hildesheim, violin ; Raz Kohn, cello ; Allan Sternfield, piano. Tel-Aviv: Tel Aviv : Israel Composers' League., Composer: Rachel Galinne
6. Ben-Zvi, Eva (2000). Musiques Juives Russes (Media notes) (in Yiddish). recorded at the Mosfilm studios performed by the Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra(conductor: Andrei Chistiakov) , Eva Ben-Zvi (soprano), Elena Goubina (contralto) and Nikolai Kurpe (tenor). Chant du monde : Distribution Harmonia Mundi, 2000., Composer: ShostakovichProkofiev
7. Ben-Zvi, Eva (1998). Stride between verses a collection of Israeli art songs (Media notes) (in Russian and Hebrew). performed by Ben-Zvi Eva(soprano) and Tadson Natasha(pianist). Tel-Aviv: Tel-Aviv : Israeli Music Center., Composer: Misc.
8. Ben-Zvi, Eva (1992). SIMENI KAHOTAM AL LIBEHA (Media notes) (in Hebrew). performed at the Grand Hall of the Moscow Conservatoire by Eva Ben-Zvi (soprano) and Anatoly Safiulin (bass). Vilnius: Sonore Records., Composer: Anatolijus Senderovas
9. Ben-Zvi, Eva (1991). Frid: The Diary of Anne Frank (Media notes) (in Russian). Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra. mosfilm studios, Moscow., Composer: Grigory Frid

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