Wiesenberg Menachem

Menachem Wiesenberg, composer, arranger, pianist and educator is one of Israel's most varied and acclaimed musicians.

Artistic Career
His oeuvre covers a wide range of styles from orchestral, chamber and vocal works in the classical field to light music and jazz. His music has been performed all over the world by orchestras like the Dallas Symphony Orchestra or the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, as well as by soloists such as the German Violist Tabea Zimmerman or the Israel Violinist Hagai Shaham.
Mr. Wiesenberg has garnered renown for his arrangements of Israeli and Yiddish folk songs, and his interest in the folk music of his native land serves as a fundamental influence throughout all of his compositional activity.
He has performed as a soloist as well as chamber music pianist in Israel, Europe and America. In addition, Mr Wiesenberg used to be also a professional Jazz Pianist performing with his Jazz Trio all over Israel.

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Winner of the "1998 Prime Minister prize for composition". 1992 awarded the prize for outstanding achievement in the concert music field by the Society of Authors, Composers and Music Publishers in Israel (ACUM Ltd.). Composer in residence by the “Rockfeller Foundation”, the “Bogliasco Foundation” and the “Virginia Center for Creative Arts”.

Recordings
His music appears internationally on more than nine CDs, distributed most notably under the EMI and Koch International labels. Performances of his music have received many broadcasts by Radio Cologne, Radio Bavaria, Radio Geneva, French Internatinal Radio and by the Israel Broadcasting Service.

Teaching
Mr. Wiesenberg has given Composition Master Classes and Lectures in many Academies in the States and in England. He is now a Senior Lecturer at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance in Jerusalem and was the founder and Head of the Interdisiplinary Music Department there. In addition, Mr. Wiesenberg is a Musical Advisor and Senior Instructor of the Young Musicians Group under the auspices of the Jerusalem Music Center founded by the late Maestro Isaac Stern.He was nominated the first Visiting Israeli Composer by the J.M.I. in London.