Classical music

Matti Caspi laid to rest as family and artists gather to honor his legacy

In an emotionally charged ceremony, hundreds of family members, friends, and figures from the cultural world arrived today at the Kfar Saba cemetery to accompany Matti Caspi on his final journey.

Family members and friends attend a funeral service for Israeli singer and composer Mati Caspi, who passed away after a prolonged battle with cancer, in Tel Aviv, February 9, 2026.
Pianist Ido Shalom takes his seat at the keyboard

Pianist Ido Shalom on music, meaning, and playing beyond the concert hall

Ensemble finale

Keshet Eilon’s homecoming gala

DAVID GRIMAL: Music is about listening before you do anything else.

Renowned French violinist David Grimal brings harmony to Eilat


*NSYNC drops first new song together in 20 years

*NSYNC's last studio album, "Celebrity," was released in 2001.

 American boy band *NSYNC pose during the unveiling ceremony of their star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles, U.S. April 30, 2018.

Jerusalem Baroque Orchestra moves from Baroque to Classic

Meniker says he was looking to give the audiences oxymoronic value for money when he got down to piecing the program together. 

 ZVI MENIKER will conduct and take the solo spot on fortepiano.

Conductor Mälkki debuts with Israel Philharmonic

The concerts will include two symphonic tone poems: En Saga by Jean Sibelius and Le Poeme de l’extase by Alexander Scriabine, as well as Ernest Bloch’s Schelomo, Hebraic Rhapsody for cello.

 THE ISRAEL Philharmonic Orchestra.

The Israeli Vocal Ensemble is celebrating its 30th anniversary

The veteran choral troupe celebrates with a two-day festival in Zichron Yaakov

 FRIEDER BERNIUS: Singing in an ensemble should be comparable with playing in an orchestra – the sound of the instruments.

Israeli musicians take center stage in Nicosia

 Israeli musicians Gal Nyska (cello) and Ishay Shaer (piano) p

Ode to lost culture: Jewish influence in Polish classical music

A binational double-header salutes Jewish contributions to Polish artistic life

 LUKASZ BOROWICZ

Die Fledermaus - the bat is landing in Israel

Thrills, spills and fun galore as a popular Strauss operetta rolls into town.

Oded Reich and Tal Bergman in the roles of Gabriel von Eisenstein and Prince Orlofsky in Die Fledermaus by Strauss the Younger.

Young, talented and restless

Teenage British violinist Leia Zhu brings her precocious talents to Israel once again.

 YOUNG BRITISH violin phenomenon Leia Zhu.

Mélanie Laurent brings expertise to curtain raiser of this year’s Israeli Harp Competition

Laurent certainly put her heart, soul and hours of practice into her instrumental love, and made good progress.

 MÉLANIE LAURENT: I had a very big crush on the sound.

Nazi-looted sheet music returned to modern heirs

Beethoven gave the sheet music to his secretary before it found its way to the wealthy Czechoslovakian Petschek family.

 Beethoven’s handwritten manuscript for the fourth movement of his String Quartet in B-flat Major