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Tribute to Patrick Berman

Patrick Berman, a volunteer and the treasurer of the European Institute of Jewish Music, passed away this Sunday, November 7, 2021. …

Conference – The place of the organ in the Jewish tradition – Hervé Roten

Sunday, October 24, 2021 from 2 to 3 pm - LE KARE - Boulogne-Billancourt (92100). Conference on the evolution of the role of the organ in the liturgy, organized within the framework of the days marking the 10th anniversary of Organ in France …

Kol Nidrei, Hashkivenu, Vay’khulu haShamayim, Shma Koleinu, Lakol Zman v’Et, Elégie for cello and piano, Shlosha Yeladim, Sonata for piano

The EIJM publishing house releases eight new instrumental or vocal scores by Itaï Daniel, a composer inspired by Judaism and its music …

Katouna, for clarinet and cello

Release of a new musical score by Serge Kaufman, at the EIJM’s editions …

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 …

Jacques Offenbach and friends – From the Synagogue to the Opera

This CD allows us to discover the original Hebrew works of Isaac and Jacques Offenbach, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Jules Erlanger, Emile Jonas and Fromental Halévy …

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 …

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