Noam Sheriff
{{Short description|Israeli composer, conductor, educator and arranger}}
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Noam Sheriff ({{langx|he|נׂעם שריף}}; 7 January 1935 – {{Death date|2018|8|25|df=yes}}) was an Israeli composer, conductor, educator, and arranger.{{Cite web |date=2017-10-24 |title="מירי רגב לא מבינה על מה היא מדברת, מה שהיא עושה זה פתטי" |url=https://www.maariv.co.il/culture/music/Article-603769 |access-date=2024-09-09 |website=www.maariv.co.il |language=he}}
Noam Sheriff was Artistic Director of the Kibbutz Chamber Orchestra, Music Director of the Israel Rishon LeZion Symphony Orchestra, Professor of Composition and Conducting at the Samuel Rubin Academy of Music at Tel Aviv University, and Director of the Academy from 1998 to 2000. He was also artistic director of the Israel Chamber Orchestra and the Haifa Symphony Orchestra.{{Cite web |last=CODALARIO |title=Ha muerto Noam Sheriff |url=https://www.codalario.com/noam-sheriff/noticias-2018/ha-muerto-noam-sheriff_7233_86_22071_0_1_in.html |access-date=2024-10-04 |website=www.codalario.com |language=es}}
Awards
- In 1991, Sheriff won the ACUM Prize for his life's work.[http://cms.education.gov.il/EducationCMS/Units/PrasIsrael/MekableyPrasTashaa/NoamSharif/CV.htm Resume of Noam Sherriff (in Hebrew)], Israel Prize website.
- In 2003, he was awarded the EMET Prize for music.
- In 2011, he was awarded the Israel Prize for music.[http://cms.education.gov.il/EducationCMS/Units/PrasIsrael/MekableyPrasTashaa/NoamSharif/Nimukim.htm Judges Rationale for grant of Israel Prize (in Hebrew)], Israel Prize website[http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/composer-noam-sheriff-wins-israel-prize-for-music-1.348020 Composer Noam Sheriff wins Israel Prize for music] Haaretz, March 9, 2011
Personal life
Noam Sheriff was married to the Israeli composer Ella Milch-Sheriff from 1982 until Noam Sheriff's death in 2018.
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External links
- [http://www.noamsheriff.com/ Noam Sheriff's website]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20110718104336/https://www.edition-peters.de/cms/front_content.php?idcat=77&idart=90&composer_id=391%2F Sheriff's home page at C.F. Peters edition]
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{{succession box | title=Music Director, Israel Netanya Kibbutz Orchestra | before=Avi Ostrowsky | years=1973-1982 | after=Uzi Wiesel}}
{{succession box | title=Music Director, Israel Symphony Orchestra Rishon LeZion | before=Shimon Cohen | years=1989-1995 | after=Asher Fisch}}
{{succession box | title=Music Director, Israel Chamber Orchestra | before=Salvador Mas Conde | years=2002-2005 | after=Gil Shohat}}
{{succession box | title=Music Director, Haifa Symphony Orchestra | before=Cristian Mandeal | years=2004-2013 | after=Zhong Xu}}
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Category:20th-century Israeli classical composers
Category:Israeli classical musicians
Category:Israeli male composers
Category:Jewish classical musicians
Category:Israel Prize in music recipients
Category:EMET Prize recipients in Culture and Art
Category:Israeli male classical composers
Category:21st-century Israeli classical composers
Category:20th-century Israeli conductors (music)
Category:21st-century Israeli conductors (music)