I have always remembered myself playing something. When I started second grade, my parents decided it was time I learned to play an instrument seriously and signed me up at the Herzliya Municipal Conservatory. Together with the person who was the Conservatory's principal at that time, they decided I should start learning the cello. I was dreaming to be a violinist but despite my protests, I began learning cello. I loved the instrument, but I have always felt that it is not completely my instrument, and for years I tried all sorts of other instruments, as well.
After graduating high school and the Municipal Conservatory with honors, I discovered the viol, or as it is also called, the Viola da gamba. The viol is a string instrument that was played during the Renaissance and Baroque periods, and finally went out of fashion in favor of the cello. And so, in July 2004 I started taking gamba lessons with Dr. Myrna Herzog in Ra'anana, Israel.
After about a year of studies I suddenly moved to Brussels, Belgium, where I was accepted to study in the middle of the semester. I went there in order to do an entrance examination, and stayed when I was accepted. After 4 years and a Bachelor's degree in Brussles a dream I had had for years came true and I went to study in The Hague, the Netherlands, for another year. After a year in The Hague I discovered that the institution didn't suit me, that I had had enough of formal studies, and decided to go back home, to Israel. I had studied in Israel with the best musicians and lived for five years in star dust, but it really was time to come back home.
While studying, I was also active in the Jewish communities of Brussels and The Hague, and I have also developed tremendously in the Jewish music field. I played two years in a row at the Brussels' Jewish Music Festival with the group "Altland" of which I was a member for a year and a half.
Today I am a freelance musician, working on a combination of Jewish and Early music, and singing while accompanying myself on the viol. I have studied singing and composition for years and as a woman coming from a Jewish-Orthodox household, the Jewish musical tradition is especially close to my heart. That is why I have decided to do what I am really good at: to sing and play Jewish and Early music, and to bring the music to general audiences. Music is a language, and this language is not only for the elite.
Together with other musicians, Cecilia Yakubov and Adi Silberberg, who have become close friends of mine, we have developed programs that combine my two great loves: Jewish music and Early music, in an original and unique way. With Cecilia I have established "Duo Cancionero" featuring Spanish Renaissance music, and with Adi I have developed the modular program, "Good Jews".
