featuring internationally renowned trombonists Nitzan Haroz and Dan Blacksberg!
The service will be followed by a delicious Israeli dinner, and RSVPs to Betty are kindly requested by Wednesday, April 18 (bettyv@societyhillsynagogue.org). The service and dinner are open to the entire community.
Israel native Nitzan Haroz has been Principal Trombone of the Philadelphia Orchestra since 1995, except for a brief period when he held the same position with the Los Angeles Philharmonic from 2012–2014. Nitzan previously served as Assistant Principal Trombone of the New York Philharmonic and Israel Symphonies and the Opera Orchestra. He was also First Trombone of the Israel Defense Forces Orchestra and performed with the Jerusalem Symphony.
His recording, Towards the Light, was released in 2004. Nitzan currently serves on the faculty of the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia.
A 2012 Pew Fellow in the Arts, Dan Blacksberg has made a name for himself as a leader, with projects such as the Daniel Blacksberg Trio, Hasidic doom metal band Deveykus, and as a co-leader of the musical duo Archer Spade. Dan is one of the few musicians in the world who perform and teach traditional klezmer music on the trombone. He is a founding member of Alan Bern’s The Other Europeans and has performed and recorded with Frank London, Adrienne Cooper, Michael Winograd, Daniel Kahn, Hankus Netsky, Alicia Svigals, and Elaine Hoffman-Watts. Dan has taught and performed in festivals all over the world, such as KlezKamp, KlezKanada, Lowell Folk Festival, the Krakow Festival of Jewish Culture, and Yiddish Summer Weimar.