Shosh (Shoshana) Riseman (or Raizman,
he, שוש רייזמן;
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
Tel Aviv-Yafo ( he, תֵּל־אָבִיב-יָפוֹ, translit=Tēl-ʾĀvīv-Yāfō ; ar, تَلّ أَبِيب – يَافَا, translit=Tall ʾAbīb-Yāfā, links=no), often referred to as just Tel Aviv, is the most populous city in the G ...
Academy of Music in 1970. She studied composition and orchestration with
Noam Sheriff
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,
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
Tel Aviv University (TAU) ( he, אוּנִיבֶרְסִיטַת תֵּל אָבִיב, ''Universitat Tel Aviv'') is a public research university in Tel Aviv, Israel. With over 30,000 students, it is the largest university in the country. Locate ...
,
Ramat Aviv
Ramat Aviv Alef or Ramat Aviv HaYeruka, and originally plainly Ramat Aviv ( he, רָמַת אָבִיב, ''lit.'' Spring Heights), is a neighborhood in northwest Tel Aviv, Israel.
History
Ramat Aviv was founded in 1950s following the great inf ...
,
Israel
Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...
, 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
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1948 births
20th-century classical composers
Israeli composers
Israeli music educators
Jewish classical composers
Living people
Women classical composers
21st-century classical composers
20th-century Israeli educators
20th-century Israeli women musicians
21st-century Israeli educators
21st-century Israeli women musicians
Israeli women music educators
20th-century women composers
21st-century women composers
20th-century women educators
21st-century Israeli women educators