David Greilsammer and Gilad Harel (music)
Mozart: Sonata in B-Flat Major K. 454,
Adagio Medley (the works of Jewish composers from the ghettos 1942-1943)
Kutiman (video & music) ThruJerusalem
Yonatan Kunda, Neta Weiner & Anna Cohen-Yanay (video, spoken word & beatbox)
Idan Raichel Acoustic Project
Line up: Idan Raichel (Piano, keyboard, vocals), Yankale Segal (oud & bass), Eyal Sela (flute, sax), Gilad Shmueli (drums), Cabra Casay (vocals), Ravid Kahalani (vocals), Amit Carmeli (vocals), Yaniv Saati (lighting, video), Valery Gamarnik (audio)
After almost two years of planning, the 9th edition of the Swiss cultural festival CULTURESCAPES will open at the Theater Basel on 14 September 2011 in the company of Urs Wüthrich, Minister of the Canton Basel-Landschaft, and Dr Guy Morin, Minister of the Canton Basel-Stadt. The opening programme will provide a taste of the next three months of Israeli-Swiss artistic work and present acts from the lively and diverse music scene in Israel.
David Greilsammer is the principal conductor and music director of the Geneva Chamber Orchestra with which he performs as both a conductor and a pianist. Greilsammer often performs with the jazz pianist Yaron Herman and plays jazz and klezmer with the clarinettist David Krakauer. The Israeli clarinetist Gilad Harel is an avid chamber music player, a new music promoter and an active klezmer/world/pop music performer. He has toured with pop singer-song-writer Natalie Merchant, played at the main stage of the Krakow Jewish Culture Festival in Poland, was a part of a two week long festival of Israeli Jazz in New York City, was a frequent guest artist with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, collaborated with renowned composers such as Elliott Carter, Salvatore Sciarrino, John Zorn, Mark Andre and Tristan Murail, and was recently nominated a teacher for klezmer performance at the Jerusalem Academy of Music.
Kutiman is a musician, composer and producer. He made his breakthrough in 2009 with ThruYOU, an online music-video project, which he mixed from YouTube video sequences. For the opening of the festival, he has created a mix from YouTube video sequences of Israeli musicians who create the sound of Jerusalem.
Yonatan Kunda and Neat Weiner are members of the rap group System Ali. For CULTURESCAPES, they have collaborated with the video artist Anna Cohen-Yanay on a special project - a homage to life in Tel Aviv.
In 2002, the Idan Raichel Acoustic Project ruffled the feathers of the global music scene, permanently changing the face of Israeli pop music. The project is a mixture of African, Latin-American and Caribbean sounds and melodies from the Middle East.
‹a fascinating window into a young Israel, tolerant, multiethnic, taking shape away from the headlines› - Boston Globe
