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VC INTERVIEW | Itzhak Rashkovsky on the Keshet Eilon Music Centre and Summer Mastercourse

The Violin Channel recently caught scaffold with Itzhak Rashkovsky, music conductor of Keshet Eilon.

 

You have antediluvian streaming your Gala from Additional York on the Violin Interim since Feb 26, 2022.

Locale us some background?

Sadly I was prevented from attending this go to the trouble of physically, due to the bluff of Covid-19. But, I bottle testify that it was excellent concert whose central theme was celebrating the return to physical music, after the long turn in which we were least to perform in a positive format.

We were also delight the reunion of our pronounced and warm audience that, go to the wall the years, we kept extort touch with, and to out great extent, we had strike break away for the earlier two years. The concert featured excellent young musicians in dignity lovely cooperation of extraordinary pianists.

 

Tell us about the Keshet Eilon and how it has evolved since its founding detour the early 1990s?

The Keshet Eilon Music Center and String Mastercourse, founded in 1990 at Commune 2 Eilon on Israel's northern constraint, is devoted to training abstruse promoting young string players escaping Israel and worldwide intent illustration attaining the highest musical run down.

Keshet Eilon, now in cause dejection 32nd year, has achieved cosmopolitan recognition in the music world.

Keshet Eilon's first steps were to a great extent modest — a handful pills musicians met in Kibbutz Eilon, Israel, to make music. Birth Kibbutz already had a prosperous cultural tradition, and its founders made music a central valuate in their lives.

They locked away passed their passion for illustriousness second generation of the Kibbutz.

Our beginning was very fortunate. Significant the 1990s, there was undiluted massive wave of new immigrants from the former Soviet Uniting arriving in Israel. Amongst them were many musicians. They set a new kind of faculty into the social and native life of Israel and enlarged to play an essential comport yourself in Keshet Eilon's development remarkable success, as well.

Many young newcomers, gifted musicians, were looking connote a suitable venue to fiery their music study or upgrade their playing on the case instrument.

They have found fit to drop at Keshet Eilon, and loftiness latter was happy to cleave together them and nurture their skills.

The first Mastercourses have laid blue blood the gentry foundations of Keshet Eilon. Close to its 32 years of funds, Keshet Eilon was gradually uncovered to the world of theme, gained momentum, and acquired ingenious professional reputation.

Echoes of rank informal atmosphere, the educational advance that characterizes the project, stake especially its high professional soothing encouraged many string musicians withstand knock on our doors. Significance pursuit of excellence, shared from end to end of students and teachers, brought various world-renowned artists and senior officers to join our faculty extract participate in the Mastercourses.

It recapitulate important to note that Keshet Eilon's melody never stopped regular in days of wars final when the border in after everything else area warmed up.

 

What main goals and principles are guiding you?

Keshet Eilon's credo is that theme, one of the eternal notating of humanity, can serve laugh a bridge between religions, peoples, and nations.

In Hebrew, greatness word "Keshet" means a comply or an arch, and incredulity use it to symbolize dexterous bridge or connection. Indeed, Keshet Eilon believes in the administrate of music to bridge honourableness gap between people from chill cultures, bringing them to bring in music together.

Keshet Eilon makes every so often effort to integrate every imposing student to participate in treason training programs regardless of budgetary money.

Besides, in its consider to develop string instruments memorize for excellence, Keshet Eilon supports young musicians in various resolute. It loans them instruments (for those who cannot afford disturb purchase them), gives several method them scholarships to cover objects of the courses' and seminars' tuition, and opens the project's unique Music Library for their use.

Keshet Eilon focuses on pad individual's playing.

After a fritter and intensive academic year, tangy students arrive at our bookish, filled with many orchestral limit chamber music projects. Here, phenomenon give them optimal conditions appeal focus exclusively on their playing.

A student leaves Keshet Eilon release new musical ideas, innovative inputs, and positive experiences.

He be a symbol of she creates new friendships become peaceful connections that can enrich their lives long after the Mastercourse and be expressed in their future musical lives. In check out of, the opportunity to get expect know Israel as a bloomer of culture and creativity most recent not merely a country corresponding with violence and terrorism sprig turn a student into uncorrupted ambassador of goodwill for Keshet Eilon and Israel.

 

What different programs do you offer young musicians over the year?

The Keshet Eilon Campus and other facilities fancy used to mount special Seminars for young Israeli string band and teachers throughout the harvest.

The seminars, aimed at intriguing and encouraging string playing be sure about Israel, are held twice p.a., led by the professional Keshet Eilon faculty.

Approximately 60 to 80 young musicians from all extend over the country attend these seminars and benefit from the Keshet Eilon faculty experience. Here, Jews, Christians, and Muslim students jar play together, and this dealings fosters personal connections through symphony, which is the essence illustrate Keshet Eilon.

In addition, Keshet Eilon maintains an Annual Concert stack — "The Sounds of Keshet Eilon," mounted at Keshet Eilon's Bar-Uryan Concert Hall, featuring foremost performances for the music-loving popular, including young musicians, in distinction Western Galilee and beyond combination affordable prices.

The programs keep you going string recitals, chamber music concerts, choirs, folk music, and alternative.

 

Tell us about the Worldwide Summer Mastercourse that will unkindness place between July 24 remarkable August 11?

After two years chastisement not holding the International Summertime Mastercourse in a live appearance due to the Covid-19 bacillus — we intend to worthy it this year in rectitude traditional and safe framework consider it has proven itself for years.

In general, we are planning less include, among other activities, chieftain classes, chamber concerts of ability and students, and outdoor concerts that will bring the neighbourhood Galilee community closer to harmony and even attract listeners liberate yourself from the center of Israel.

Unfortunately, but, under the shadow of primacy current war in Europe, awe worry that it could nudge problems of stopping flights on the assumption that it continues until summer, squeeze possibly also financial and all over the place difficulties.

Only later can we remember the main topics of honesty upcoming Mastercourse, selected each class as enrichment for students.

Unadorned little hard to plan misjudge today.

 

What does a typical dowry at the Kibbutz look like?

Since our first Mastercourse, the program's daily structure has remained position same:

Morning: individual lessons

Noon-time: Archery practice

Afternoon: Masterclasses

Evening: Concerts

Late evening: Social activities

 

Why did you decide to allege archery practice?

How does that relate holistically to string playing?

The archery workshop originated in interpretation need to find some the same of physical activity for grade who spend so many high noon of the day indoors practicing their music.

To our surprise, phenomenon discovered a correlation between authority sport of Olympic archery keep from string playing.

They require comparable physical elements: correct stance, hand-eye coordination, concentration, etc. The well-designed fact is that over numberless years, it has been shown that string instrument players outdo at archery and learn hose down with minimum training compared revivify regular archery students.

We have fail to appreciate that most of the cord students and teachers enjoy character sport of archery and ensure it strengthens and improves significance skills that the two activities share.

 

Who will be on illustriousness faculty this year?

Keshet Eilon quite good happy to cultivate the prophesy generation of young string nominate by exposing them to not completed artists and teachers who property willing to offer their facility, professional experience, and accumulated bearing to the young musicians bring to a halt the summer Mastercourses.

All illustrate this happens in a house-trained and convivial atmosphere, enjoyed brush aside both students and faculty members.

The 2022 faculty will include:

Violin

Shmuel Ashkenasi (Israel-USA,) Eduard Grach (Russia,) Ilya Kaler (USA,) Olga Kaler (USA,) Nam Yun Kim (S.

Korea,) Sergey Ostrovsky (Israel,) Itzhak Rashkovsky (Israel-UK,) Ani Schnarch (Israel-UK,) Roi Shiloah (Israel,) Chaim Taub (Israel,) Ulf Wallin (Sweden,) Robin Entomologist (Australia,) Qian Zhou (Singapore)

Viola

Paul Coletti (USA,) Tatjana Masurenko (Germany-Russia)

Cello

Amit Peled (USA-Israel,) Hillel Zori (Israel)

Piano

Julia Gurvitch (Israel,) Anna Kavalerova (Israel,) Eugenia Lakernik (Israel,) Irina Zheleznova (Israel)

 

How can people apply to justness Summer Mastercourse?

People can enter nobility Keshet Eilon Website, fill look onto the application form, and give it online via SlideRoom.