About the Ensemble

Emil Eibinder founded the Folk Music Ensemble in 2001 adding another top-quality performing group to the Faculty of Performing Arts. The Ensemble is made up of 12 Arab and Jewish students who study in the String Department, the Wind Department, the Jazz Department and the Oriental Music Department.

The Ensemble specializes in Balkan music from Romania, Hungary, Turkey, Moldova, and Yugoslavia, as well as Israeli folk music. Since its inception, the Ensemble has performed all over Israel to high acclaim and enthusiastic audiences.

The Vocal Department trains singers in the various areas of vocal music (opera, lieder, and oratorio) in a number of languages and styles. Each student also receives lessons in voice development as well as training in accompaniment. Each year the Opera Workshop presents a number of stage productions together with the chamber ensemble or orchestra, and the students receive acting lessons.

This faculty trains instrumentalists in various styles and instruments (piano, guitar, drums, saxophone, flute, etc.). It includes ensembles such as big band, Dixie, and smaller groups. The faculty has programs for Cross-Disciplinary composers and singers, and it also offers a number of specialized subjects such as ethnic jazz, the history of jazz, improvisation workshops, and so on.

The Cross-Disciplinary Composition Department was established to provide the opportunity to study music at a high academic level for young artists who view the art of music, as the founders of the department and its teachers do, as something pluralistic, which is not limited to just one narrow style, or to just one musical direction.

The Department of Jazz Performance at JAMD operates within the Faculty of Interdisciplinary Music, and is connected academically and artistically with the Department of Creative works, the Interdisciplinary Vocal Department, the Department of Oriental Music, and the Faculty of Dance.

The program of study entails acquisition of a combination of skills in playing the different styles of jazz. 

The Wind and Percussion Department offers study programs for all standard instruments, with Israel’s finest teachers.  Learning takes place in lecture format and via individualized instruction, chamber-music workshops, method classes, annual competitions, participation in a symphony orchestra, and master classes with internationally-acclaimed artists.
The department cooperates with the Academy’s other units on special projects, such as chamber-opera productions and mixed ensembles with string and keyboard instruments, vocalists and dancers.

The curriculum in composition trains composers in the sphere of artistic music while also opening a window onto additional creative fields.  First year students study introductory courses in composition, and in the second to fourth years each student studies composition on an individual basis with one of the teachers from the faculty of the Department of Composition and Composing.  Students are given ample opportunity to perform and record their works in concerts organized by the Department, and are also performed throughout the year by Academy students from the Faculty of the Performing A

The Yitzchak Navon Community Unit seeks to share the wonderful offerings of JAMD with the wider community around us, in Jerusalem and beyond. We want to bring music and dance to places that need better access to the arts.