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Shoshana Riseman

Shosh Riseman is an Israeli composer, music educator and stage director who has written music for many theater productions.

born 1948Music for Israeli theaterThe opera "The Girls of Toledo"Teaching voice and speech

Born: 10 April 1948, Cyprus
Occupation: composer, music educator
Education: Buchmann-Mehta School of Music, Tel Aviv University

Shoshana Riseman was born in 1948 in Cyprus

Shoshana Riseman was born on 10 April 1948 in a refugee camp in Cyprus. Her parents were Holocaust survivors who had been deported there by the British.

She graduated from the Israeli music academy in Tel Aviv in 1970. She studied composition and orchestration with Noam Sheriff, Leon Schidlowsky and Yosef Dorfman in Israel, and also studied in England and the United States. She studied voice with Mira Zakai and Hanna Hacohen at Tel Aviv University.

Riseman has composed music for plays at the Cameri, Habima, Beit Lessin, Haifa, Beersheba and Khan theaters, as well as for dance and television. She wrote three operas, including "The Girls of Toledo" for the 1992 Israel Festival with a libretto by Yehoshua Sobol. She has also directed plays and written songs, among them the theme of the series "The Kids from Chaim Neighborhood".

She teaches voice, speech and singing at Tel Aviv University, the Kibbutzim College and the Academy of Performing Arts. In 2017 she was musical director of a show based on the songs of Jacques Brel.