shai shaashua

I was born in Israel and at the age of 9 I began my musical path playing classical flute studying in private sessions with Tami Zinger, a know Flutist in Israel. Between the age of 9 and 14 I participated in number of local concerts around my hometown Omer, Israel. Getting into my teenage years I started taking lots of interest in playing guitar and at the age of 14 my parents bought me my first guitar and from that moment and on i couldn’t keep my hands off of it.During my high school years up to the age of 18 I studied with number of teachers among them, Yaakov Ravitz and Amos Ever Hadani in Israel. I was also a member in several bands among them “Hadodim Shel Nava” who won 2nd place in a national battle of the band contest at 1995 and “the cookies” who managed to get a demo cd out right before all its members got drafted to the Israeli Defense Forces at 1997.Between 1997 and 2001 I served as an officer in the IDF waiting for the day he will be dismissed to proceed chasing his dream to become a professional musician.At 2001 I attended “Rimon School of Jazz” , Israel. And proceed for some private teachings and working as a hired guitar player. At that time I started playing for Micha Biton in a group called Tanara performing and touring all around Israel.Around 2002 I got back to taking private sessions with one of Israel’s finest guitar players, Barak Hanoch who prepared me for my studies at Berklee College Of Music. At august 2004 I arrived at the U.S.A to attend Berklee College Of Music and Graduated with honor at May 2007 with B.M in Professional Music.While at Berklee I got to perform with many talented musicians such as Ronen Evron, Amir Rubinshtein,Noa Tucker, Nir Na’aman, Asaf Sagiv, Oded Davidov, Bleu, and in my visits in Israel I got to perform and record with a couple very close friends of mine, Shlomi Abukrat and Yoni Dariel.at the moment i just arrived at Los Angeles, An update will come….. MyGen Profile Generator