Shosh (Shoshana) Riseman (or Raizman, he, שוש רייזמן; born 10 April 1948) is an Israeli music educator, stage director and composer.

Biography

Riseman was born in

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while her parents were traveling, and graduated from the

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Academy of Music in 1970. She studied composition and orchestration with Noam Sheriff,

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at Tel Aviv University in Israel, with

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, at

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, and

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, Chicago University in the USA. She also studied electroacoustic music with Sanday and voice with

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at Tel Aviv University. She teaches theater arts at

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, and is known as a composer of theater music.

Honors and awards

*1969 - America Israel Culture Fund prize *1986 - First prize for the music to "Hymn for David", Acre Festival *1987 - Special prize, Acre Festival *2001 - Nominee for Israeli Theater Prize

Works

Riseman has composed music for about fifty plays. Selected works include: *1972 - ''The Good Soldier Svejk'', operetta *1972 - ''Background music for the Media'', KPM Records, London *1973 - ''Shchunat Chaim'', for television *1976 - ''What a Lovely Day'', CBS Records *1983 - ''9 Haiku Songs'' *1987 - ''Avishai Milshtein, Then is Death'' *1989 - ''Euripides - Iphigenia at Aulis'', Seminar Hakibutzim, The Kibutz *1990 - ''Sam Sheperd, Love/Death'', Tetroneto *1992 - ''The Toledo Girls'', opera, Libretto: Joshua Sobol *1999 - ''Dylan Thomas, Under Milk Wood'' *2001 - ''Oscar Wild, The Rose and the Nightingale'', opera, Libretto: Moshe Prives *''Everything is Here'', musical

References

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