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"From Spain to Jerusalem" - A Concert with The Yuval Ron Ensemble

A Concert with The Yuval Ron Ensemble featuring Maya Haddi - vocals, Rabbi Hagai Batzri - vocals, Norik Manoukian - woodwind, Virginie Alumian - kanoun, Jamie Papish - percussion, David Martinelli - percussion, Maya Karasso - dance, with special guest vocalists Ahmed El Asmer and Barak Marshal, and Yuval Ron - Oud and artistic director.

Sunday, March 06, 2011
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Schoenberg Hall
UCLA Campus

Yuval Ron is a world-renowned musician, composer, and producer for film, television, dance and theater. Among his many honors, he was invited to perform for the Dalai Lama and the Sufi leader Pir Zia Iniyat Khan. In 2006, he won an Oscar for West Bank Story, and received the Los Angeles Treasures Award in 2004. He is the recipient of prestigious grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, American Composers Forum, California Council for the Humanities, and the Rockefeller Foundation. His musical ensemble has been actively involved in creating musical bridges between people of the Jewish, Muslim and Christian faiths and has been featured on CNN, National Geographic, and in the international press and media. He is also a noted lecturer and has been invited to speak at numerous schools including: Yale, John Hopkins University, UCLA, Middlebury College, Brandeis University, MIT, Berklee College of Music, Pittsburgh University, Texas University in Austin, UCSD, Jerusalem Film School (Israel), and many others.

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Cost: Admission: $15/general admission, $10/UCLA faculty and staff, free for students

For more information please contact

Miriam Markus Zacuto
Tel: 310-825-9646
israel@international.ucla.edu

Sponsor(s): Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for Israel Studies, Center for Jewish Studies, Herb Alpert School of Music, UCLA Mickey Katz Chair in Jewish Music