Events

The night of theology – 4th edition

Thursday January 30, 2020 from 7 pm to 11h30 pm. An evening dedicated to relations between music and religion, and then to the ecological question, conceived and organized by the Villa Gillet and the Institution des Chartreux, as part of the festival La Nuit des Idées. In collaboration with the Fonds de dotation des Chartreux and RCF …

Jewish Music: When Singular is Plural

Wednesday November 6, 2019, 6 pm a lecture by Hervé Roten, Director of the European Institute of Jewish Music, at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome (ITALY), in the framework of the session Art as/in Dialogue: Jewish and Christian Music …

Symposium in Hannover : Magnified and Sanctified, The Music of Jewish Prayer

From September 9 to 12, 2019 at the Hannover university (GERMANY), international symposium on Jewish liturgical music. Hervé Roten, Director of the EIJM, will lead a conference on the 12th of September, as part of the session called : "Synagogue Music(s) in Theory and Practice " …

Musica Judaica Symposium : Jewish music between oral and written traditions

On the 14th & 15th of July 2019 in Oxford (ENGLAND) will take place an international symposium in which Hervé Roten, Director of the European Institute for Jewish Music, will speak, particularly about the future of Jewish music collections, through the work that is done in the Institute, before speaking about the subject of the Sephardic-Portuguese traditions, dear to him …

The EIJM’s Gala Concert – 5th edition – From the synagogue to the opera : Jacques Offenbach and friends

On November 17, 2019, 5:30 pm, Salle Cortot - Paris, the IEMJ invites you to a concert of original Hebrew Works by Isaac and Jacques Offenbach, Jacques Fromental Halévy, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Jules Erlanger and Emile Jonas …

Jewish music and cuisine : delicacies and sounds

CONFERENCE held by the EIJM and the CBL, the 20th June 2019 8h45 PM at the Cercle Bernard Lazare (75003). An audiovisual conference by Hervé Roten, director of the EIJM, around songs that speak of Jewish culinary specialties... …

Screening of the movie “Simha”, by Jérôme Blumberg

The 27th of June 2019 at 7h30 PM in the Auditorium Edmond J. Safra of the Mémorial de la Shoah in Paris (75004), screening of the movie "Simha", by Jérôme Blumberg, in the presence of of the director, of Simha Arom and of Hervé Roten, musicologist director of the European Institute for Jewish Music …

The melody of the Kol Nidre : Sources, interpretations and new compositions

On the 8th April 2019 at 7h30 PM at the Institut Elie Wiesel in Paris (75010) audiovisual conference by Hervé Roten about the melody of the Kol Nidre, as part of the Lundis de Wiesel. REGISTRATION RECOMMENDED

Symposium / concert : Isaac Strauss, musician and collector under the Second Empire

The 18th of NOVEMBER 2018 from 10h30 to 16h30 at the Auditorium of the MAHJ, a symposium on Isaac Strauss which will end at 17h30 with a concert …

Concert – Exhibition at the Chapelle-en-Serval, tribute to Fernand Halphen

Sunday October 7, 2018, from 3h pm to 5h pm at the Chapelle-en-Serval (60520), concert-exhibition tribute to Fernand Halphen, killed on duty, at the Salle des fêtes, renamed « Fernand Halphen hall » …

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