Shosh (Shoshana) Riseman (or Raizman,
;
born 10 April 1948) is an Israeli music educator, stage director and composer.
Biography
Riseman was born in
Cyprus
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while her parents were traveling, and graduated from the
Tel Aviv
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Academy of Music in 1970. She studied composition and orchestration with
Noam Sheriff
Noam Sheriff (; 7 January 1935 – ) was an Israeli composer, conductor, educator, and arranger.
Noam Sheriff was Artistic Director of the Kibbutz Chamber Orchestra, Music Director of the Israel Rishon LeZion Symphony Orchestra, Professor of Co ...
,
Leon Shidlovsky and
Yosef Dorfman at Tel Aviv University in Israel, with
Hans Heimler, at
Guilford University in
England
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, and
Ralph Shapy,
Chicago University
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in the USA. She also studied electroacoustic music with Sanday and voice with
Mira Zakai and
Hanna Hacohen at Tel Aviv University. She teaches theater arts at
Tel Aviv University
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,
Ramat Aviv
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History
Ramat Aviv was founded in 1950s following the great influx of immigrants from Eastern ...
,
Israel
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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
{{DEFAULTSORT:Riseman, Shoshana
1948 births
Living people
Israeli women classical composers
Israeli women music educators
Jewish classical composers
Jewish Israeli composers
20th-century Israeli classical composers
21st-century Israeli classical composers
20th-century Israeli women educators
21st-century Israeli women educators
20th-century Israeli women composers
21st-century Israeli women composers