Winners of the President and Dean’s Prizes:

Orian Shukrun, composition - on winning the President of the Academy’s Prize

Chava Fraenkel, violin - on winning the Prize of the Dean of the Faculty of the Performing Arts

Matan Yona, composition and conducting - on winning the Prize of the Dean of the Faculty of Composition, Conducting and Music Education

Guest artists of the Faculty of Performing Arts:

Ms. Ayisha Syed Castro - guest violinist from the Dominican Republic

Violin master classes  - July 2017

Prof. Mark Schnaible - senior member of the Vocal Faculty, Music Conservatory of Brooklyn College

Vocal master classes - October 2017

Mr. Rodrigo del Pozo - head of the Vocal Department of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile

JAMD alumni Roï Azoulay, conductor of the choir at Montreal’s Congregation Shaar Hashomayim synagogue, as well as the synagogue choir and the synagogue cantor, shared a Grammy Award that was posthumously awarded to Leonard Cohen.

The title song of Cohen’s final album, "You Want it Darker", won the American music industry’s award for Best Rock Performance of the year.

Azoulay helped arrange the song and conducted the choir accompanied by Cantor Gideon Zelermyer.

TEDARIM - A JAMD Graduate (M.Mus.) program for contemporary music performance

Artistic direction and supervision by members of the Meitar Ensemble

JAMD congratulates Boaz Dorot, a composer, arranger, choir conductor, pianist and music educator for the winning of the 2018 Ben Steinberg Young Composer’s Award.

Boaz won for his composition "Mei-ayin Yavo Ezri?" a trio for Violin Cello and Piano inspired by Psalm 121.

The Ben Steinberg Young Composer’s Award is a project to encourage young Jewish composers to write appropriate, serious works for synagogue and concert, and to build an increasing body of new Jewish works for presentation.