JAMD congratulates Boaz Dorot, a composer, arranger, choir conductor, pianist and music educator for the winning of the 2018 Ben Steinberg Young Composer’s Award.

Boaz won for his composition "Mei-ayin Yavo Ezri?" a trio for Violin Cello and Piano inspired by Psalm 121.

The Ben Steinberg Young Composer’s Award is a project to encourage young Jewish composers to write appropriate, serious works for synagogue and concert, and to build an increasing body of new Jewish works for presentation. 

Last year a new technological center was opened at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance. It was established with the assistance of the Ted Arison Family Foundation, Wolf and Ruth Lesser, the Bracha Foundation and the Planning and Budgeting Committee.  The center, located in the the New Wing, is headed by Prof. Amnon Wolman.  It includes a sophisticated recording studio, a general computer laboratory, a computer and multimedia laboratory, as well as rooms for private work.