1990, Jerusalem
Tamar is an Israeli composer currently pursuing her B.Mus. in composition at the Jerusalem Academy for Music and Dance. Born in Jerusalem, Tamar is a descendant of Holocaust survivors from Germany, Hungary and Poland. Tamar has been writing and performing from a young age, including singing in children choirs and studying voice at the Yellow Submarine Music High School in Jerusalem. Her chamber, choral, and orchestral music was performed by various ensembles at the Jerusalem Academy, where she studies at the Cross-Disciplinary Composition division. In 2015-2016 Tamar lived in Rio De Janeiro, where she researched the Afro-Brazilian popular culture through folk music and Capoeira, including singing , writing arrangements for concerts, movement and percussion performances. In 2016 Tamar started studying composition with professor Haim Permont at the JAMD. Since then, her compositions and arrangements were performed at the Sounds of the Desert festival (Tslilim Ba-Midbar) by Meitar ensemble, at a national conference and workshop of Israeli folk songs at Bar-Ilan University, and at the JAMD’s project Composers Following Memories. In addition to her studies at the JAMD, she participated in workshops in Israel, Crete (Hudetzzi), and Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. Tamar’s music is influenced by a wide range of genre including traditional and contemporary western music, Afro-Brazilian, Mediterranean and Israeli popular music.
