The Israeli Ladino Orchestra - Musical Director: Dr. Ariel Lazarus
The orchestra is a dream come true - the successful outcome of the cooperation between Dr. Ariel Lazarus, renowned composer, guitar player, researcher of Sephardic music, Navon prize laureate and Renanot - an institute for Jewish music with a goal to revive musical traditions of Sephardic Jewish communities.
The Orchestra includes a mosaic of excellent young musicians who play an assortment of eastern and western instruments along with worldwide celebrated artists who play jazz, classical and Jewish music. The orchestra, has a wide repertoire of Ladino and Sephardic music which has been retrieved from dispersed Jewish communities. Other ancient poems from the Sephardic repertoire were composed by Ariel Lazarus. The orchestra aims to form a unique, outstanding and professional performance of an authentic genre that has been revitalized within the world of Jewish musical culture.