Shefi Yishai

{{Short description|Israeli musician}}

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| birth_place = Jerusalem

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| years_active = 1986–2010

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Shefi Yishai ({{Langx|he|שפי ישי}}) is an Israeli composer and musical director for theater.{{Cite web |title=שפי ישי |url=https://www.nillydagan.com/%D7%9E%D7%9C%D7%97%D7%99%D7%A0%D7%99-%D7%9E%D7%A9%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%9D-%D7%AA%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%96-%D7%94%D7%AA%D7%A9%D7%A2%D7%95/2134-%D7%A9%D7%A4%D7%99-%D7%99%D7%A9%D7%99 |access-date=2024-04-17 |website=www.nillydagan.com}}

Yishai has released two solo albums: "Love and Hate" and is touring with the music on the albums.{{Cite news |last=שלו |first=בן |date=2010-04-08 |title=שפי ישי |url=https://www.haaretz.co.il/gallery/music/2010-04-08/ty-article/0000017f-f85b-d47e-a37f-f97f10250000 |access-date=2024-04-17 |work=הארץ |language=he}} He worked on albums by David Broza and Yehuda Poliker as a session musician and producer{{Cite web |date=2009-12-14 |title=בכורה: שפי ישי - "ואז בא לנו" - וואלה תרבות |url=http://e.walla.co.il/item/1621522 |access-date=2024-04-17 |website=וואלה |language=he}} and has performed with other musicians.{{Cite web |date=2010-03-18 |title=ברוך הגבר - וואלה תרבות |url=http://e.walla.co.il/item/1654603 |access-date=2024-04-17 |website=וואלה |language=he}}

Works

=Albums=

  • 1986: "Under the Closet", based on poems for children by Anda Amir Pinkerfeld, composed by Yishai and performed by Yehudit Tamir, Moti Dichne, Ya'akov Banai and Yishai.{{citation needed|date=April 2024}}
  • First solo album, Love and Hate, released in 1991; Yishai composed music for a selection of poems by Israeli poets.{{Cite web |title=Love and Hate |url=http://www.shefi.com/LH1.html |access-date=2024-04-15 |website=www.shefi.com}}
  • Second solo album, "A Man Would Not Talk About It", released in 2010{{citation needed|date=April 2024}}

=Music for theater=

  • Sanjer, Closer, Cruel and Tender - Habima Theater.
  • Bracha - Beer Sheva Theater.
  • The Last Striptease, Night Play - Tsavta Theater.
  • Schneider & Schuster - Basel Theater (Switzerland)
  • The Concert, The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, Headlines News - Beit Lesin Theater
  • Revieue Lanoar / The Israeli Children theater
  • Nice Tony, Killer Joe, Blue Remembered Hills, Sky, Some Voices, Little Malcolm and his struggle against the eunuchs, Glengarry Glen Ross, Crime - The Han Theater
  • Brighton Beach Memoires - Haifa Theater
  • God, Crocodiles, Marriage Play, Moon of Alabama, Kol Nidrei - Herzliya Theater.
  • Perfect Days, The Last Summer - Beer Sheba Theater.
  • Victims of Duty - Hazira Theater.
  • Love and Anger - Herzliya Theater.
  • The last hour of Kol - Tmuna Theater.

References

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