BRACHA BDIL
photo credit: Malka Bdil
BRACHA BDIL, composer, conductor, and pianist was born in 1988. She has a B.Ed. in Music Education from Levinsky College and a Master’s Degree in Music Education and Composition from the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, led by Professor Andre Hajdu, o.b.m. and Professor Haim Permont. Throughout her education, she studied classical voice with Hadassah Ben-Haim, classical piano with Dina Orlov and Dr. Irena Berkowitz, jazz with Marina Lewinsky, and piano chamber music with Professor Alexander Tamir o.b.m. She studied conducting with Elli Jaffe and Evgeny Tzirlin.
Bracha has won several first prizes, among them: The International Symphony Orchestra Composition Contest named after Michal Kleofas Oginski, Molodechno, Belarus; the Electo Silva International Choir Festival, Santiago de Cuba; Donne In Musica XVIII Composition Competition, Belgrade; the VIII International Piano and Composition Competition, ULJUS, Smederevo, Serbia (2021); the Wolf Durmashkin Composition Award, Germany (2018) and the Yardena Alotin Composition Competition, Bar-Ilan University, Israel (2016).
For her Symphonic Poem Genesis Bracha was awarded the ACUM Award, Israel (2019-20). Her Variations for solo piano won the Renee B. Fisher Composer Awards 2022-3, New Haven, Connecticut. Her piano work Shofar won the Carlos Guastavino International Composition Competition, SONUS-IMF, Argentine. Her work Oasis – for clarinet & piano – won the Hajibeyli International Composition Competition (2021). Her electronic work UrbaNature won the Lala Awards competition held by Pleroma Records, Poland (2020). With her composition Yizkerem, for a-cappella choir, she was chosen as one of the composers in representing Israel at the Asian Composers League Festival, Taiwan (2018). Yizkerem was also awarded a prize in the III International Composer Competition “New Music Generation", Kazakhstan (2021) and in the International Choral Writing Competition named after A.D Kastalsky – Moscow (2018).
Bracha's repertoire spans different mediums including orchestral music, chamber, vocal and electronic music, as well as music for dance and theater. Her musical compositions and arrangements have been recognized internationally and performed around the world, including: The International Holocaust Remembrance Day in the frame of "Rossi Fest", Belgrade 2021,2019 and XVIII Internacionalni Festival-Donne In Musica, Kragujevc, Serbia; 11th International Young Composers Academy, Tchaikovsky Art School, Russia; The XIII FESTIVAL NED Ensemble-13th Contemporary Music Festival in collaboration with the SIMC, Andrea Celesti concert hall, Desenzano del Garda, Italy; VIII National Congress-Asociación Cultural Internacional, Superior Conservatory of Music, Valencia, Spain; Piano Concert Sunset Hike - the Georgia MTA and Music Teachers National Association, Northeast Georgia; Benjamin V. Cohen Peace Conference: "Building a Beloved Community", Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana (2021) ;Festival Expresiones Contemporáneas, Puebla city, Mexico; BEAST FEaST, University of Bermingham, England; Concept:Collaboration Recordings, Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University, Brisbane-Australia (2020); Meridian International Festival (ISCM), Bucharest-Romania; EAI-Woman Composers Around the World Recital, Garner-North Carolina; Spiral Staircase Duo Recital, Texas Wesleyan University & Southwestern Oklahoma State University; RDU SAI, Smithfield-North Carolina (2019); "Festival Ecos Urbanos", México; "Festival DME", Lisbon-Portugal; WOCMAT, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan; ACL-Asian Composers League Conference and Festival, Taipei-Taiwan; SiMN–Simpósio Internacional de Música Nova-Universidade Estadual do Paraná, Brazil; "China International Choir Festival", Beijing, "International Youth Art Festival", Tianjing, "Belt and Road World Choir Festival", Hong Kong; "International Jewish- German Festival", Bavaria; "mid-residency recital", California; "6:30" Concert Series-UWGB MUSIC, University of Wisconsin (2018); "Bezanson Recital Hallon", University of Massachusetts; Concert sponsored by the "Russian Musical Union", Saint- Petersburg; "The Schnittke Festival", Seratov-Russia; "UNK New Music Festival", University of Nebraska; "Société de Concerts de Montréal", Canada (2017); "Australian Percussion Gathering", Griffith University, Queensland Conservatorium, Melbourne- Australia; "One Minute Project", Athens-Greece (2016).
In Israel, her works are broadcast on the Israel Radio Voice of Music program and have been performed at various events, including: TARF-Tel Aviv International Recorder Festival (2020), Voice of music young artist competition, Israeli Music Festival, Zimriya Festival (2018), Israel Festival (2017), Piano Festival (2015), Concert Series of the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra (2019), "Excellence-The Future Generation" Series, Eden- Tamir Music Center, Ein Kerem (2014-2019), "Singing with the Sinfonietta" Series, the Be'er Sheva Symphony Orchestra (2014), and more.
Bracha Bdil is a member of the Israel Composers' League and her works are published by the Israel Music Institute. Bracha has been a lecturer for the faculty of music at the Levinsky College of Music Education, the Jerusalem College, and at the Ron Shulamit Conservatory, she has also worked as a pianist in dance classes at the Wingate College and in theater performances. Beginning in the fall of 2018, Bracha became the artistic director and chief conductor of the Zmora Women's Orchestra in Jerusalem.
CURRENT PROJECTS
to be announced
SELECTED MEDIA
Streams (2019)
Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra
Dmitry Yablonsky, conductor
Flöten am Bach (2018)
Ilan Dor, flute I
Ami Goldberg, flute II
YIZKEREM - “May Our Lord Remember Them” (2018)
Moran Singers Ensemble
Guy Pelc, conductor
Shofar (2020)
Michael Zartzekel, piano
HAYOM - “Day of Judgment” (2019)
Stefan Zekić, baritone
Katarina Popović, horn
Mediterranean Suite (2022)
Malachi Rosenbaum, piano (mvts. 1-2)
Mohammad AlSheikh, piano (mvts. 3-4)