Avi Adrian
Musician, pianist of Jazz melodies and world music, organist and trombone player. Graduate of the Jerusalem Academy of Music, an apprentice of Professor Mark Kopitman and Claude Abarbanel. One of the most respected Jazz players in the country, performed in a number of Jazz festivals in Israel and abroad worked with the best musicians in the country
PIANO — AVI ADRIANAvi has his own personal sound. His playing reaches out to me through the powerful combination of passion and mesmerizing energy.Avi is a savvy interpreter with an uncanny gift for technical improvisation.His playing shines with the sheer pleasure of natural harmonies, blending the essentials, combining Hasidic melodies with Jazz. From East to West and from old to new – all woven together in a magical tapestry – a fascinating voyage through the world of rekindled melodies.The Hasidic Movement created a new entity in the history of Jewish music, the "Hasidic Melodyâ€.The innovation was not only their creation of new melodies, but their giving those melodies a central role in Hassidut — a means for the individual to reach the ultimate goal: Pure joy and the cleaving to the Infinite One.The Avi Adrian Trio
Cinematheque, June 22
Avi AdrianJerusalemite pianist Avi Adrian has been a mainstay of the local jazz scene for some years. He is known as a risk-taking artist who explores musical twilight zones while adhering to the roots of the genre. For his festival concert Adrian was accompanied by bass player Yorai Oron, a graduate of the prestigious Berklee College of Music, and New York-based Israeli drummer Yaki Levy.
AVI ADRIAN & YEHUDA GLANTZ
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