Ophra bio
Après des études à l’Académie de musique de Jérusalem, Ophra Yerushalmi s’est perfectionnée auprès de Claudio Arrau et du compositeur Stefan Wolpe.
Elle s’est produite aux États-Unis, en Amérique du Sud, en Israël et en Europe (Londres, Édimbourg, Oxford, Venise, Paris, Madrid, Cracovie, Budapest, Lisbonne, Munich, Dresde), ainsi qu’à Tokyo, à Hong Kong et à Singapour. Elle a joué avec l’Orchestre Symphonique de Colombie, le Jerusalem Broadcasting Symphony et le Boston Pops Orchestra.
Elle a créé des œuvres de compositeurs israéliens, tels Paul Ben-Haim, Mordecai Seter et Joseph Tal.
Le public de New York l’a entendue sur les ondes de la radio WQXR, au centre culturel The 92nd Street "Y", à l’Institut Goethe, au Merkin Hall, à la Maison Française de l’Université de New York, au Miller Theatre, durant le marathon Wall-to-Wall Schubert au Symphony Space et durant le Music Festival the Hamptons, dirigé par Lukas Foss.
Engagée à l’Université Harvard (Eliot House), au titre de Affiliate in Music, Ophra Yerushalmi a mis en place un enseignement présentant les compositeurs dans le contexte de leur époque – à travers la musique, l‘art et la littérature. Le programme-concerts qu’elle a proposé incluait :
- An Afternoon with Debussy: a Centennial Tribute to the Faun – Debussy, Dukas, Mallarmé (Miller Theatre);
- Vienna-Paris: Arnold Schoenberg and his French Contemporaries - The links between Schoenberg and Ravel after World War I (The Jewish Museum);
- Transcriptions and Creative Copies in the 19th Century: Sacrilege or Interpretation? - Franz Liszt’s Transcriptions of songs by Schubert, Schumann and Mendelssohn, with an exhibition of copies of Old Masters made by the 19c painters Ingres and Delacroix (Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center).
Cet enseignement l’a conduite à adopter le langage cinématographique.
Ophra Yerushalmi a été intriguée et attirée par Franz Liszt depuis ses études avec Claudio Arrau, interprète de Liszt de renommée internationale. Son film « Liszt’s Dance with the Devil » s'inscrit dans la lignée de son film sur Frédéric Chopin,« Chopin’s Afterlife », distribué par Filmaker's Library et projeté à la télévision.
Ophra Yerushalmi, Jean-Yves Tadié
Ophra Yerushalmi, pianist and documentary filmmaker, studied at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and was later a scholarship student of Claudio Arrau and composer Stefan Wolpe.
She has performed throughout the United States, South America and Israel, as well as in London, Edinburgh, Oxford, Venice, Paris, Madrid, Krakow, Budapest, Lisbon, Munich, Dresden, Tokyo, Hong Kong and Singapore.
Her engagements with orchestras have included performances at the Casals Festival, with the Orquesta Sinfonica de Colombia, the Jerusalem Broadcasting Symphony and the Boston Pops.
She has premiered works of Israeli composers Paul Ben-Haim, Mordecai Seter and Joseph Tal.
New York audiences have heard her on WQXR, at the 92nd Street "Y", the Goethe Institute, Merkin Hall, the Maison Française of NYU, The Miller Theatre, Wall-to-Wall Schubert marathon at Symphony Space and The Music Festival of the Hamptons directed by Lukas Foss.
During several years as Affiliate in Music at Harvard University's Eliot House Ophra Yerushalmi developed a special way of presenting composers within the context of their own time – through music, art and literature.
Subsequent concert-programs have included:
“An Afternoon with Debussy: a Centennial Tribute to the Faun – Debussy, Dukas and Mallarmé" (Miller Theatre);
“Vienna-Paris: Arnold Schoenberg and his French Contemporaries”-- The links between Schoenberg and Ravel after World War I (The Jewish Museum);
“Transcriptions and Creative Copies in the 19th Century: Sacrilege or Interpretation?” – Franz Liszt’s Transcriptions of songs by Schubert, Schumann and Mendelssohn, with an exhibition of copies of Old Masters made by the 19th century painters Ingres and Delacroix (Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center).
The next, natural step from there were her movies:
Ophra died on February 22nd, 2017 at Calvary Hospital in the Bronx, exactly one month after a visit to Paris for the first projection of her latest film: "Prelude to Debussy."
Après des études à l’Académie de musique de Jérusalem, Ophra Yerushalmi s’est perfectionnée auprès de Claudio Arrau et du compositeur Stefan Wolpe.
Elle s’est produite aux États-Unis, en Amérique du Sud, en Israël et en Europe (Londres, Édimbourg, Oxford, Venise, Paris, Madrid, Cracovie, Budapest, Lisbonne, Munich, Dresde), ainsi qu’à Tokyo, à Hong Kong et à Singapour. Elle a joué avec l’Orchestre Symphonique de Colombie, le Jerusalem Broadcasting Symphony et le Boston Pops Orchestra.
Elle a créé des œuvres de compositeurs israéliens, tels Paul Ben-Haim, Mordecai Seter et Joseph Tal.
Le public de New York l’a entendue sur les ondes de la radio WQXR, au centre culturel The 92nd Street "Y", à l’Institut Goethe, au Merkin Hall, à la Maison Française de l’Université de New York, au Miller Theatre, durant le marathon Wall-to-Wall Schubert au Symphony Space et durant le Music Festival the Hamptons, dirigé par Lukas Foss.
Engagée à l’Université Harvard (Eliot House), au titre de Affiliate in Music, Ophra Yerushalmi a mis en place un enseignement présentant les compositeurs dans le contexte de leur époque – à travers la musique, l‘art et la littérature. Le programme-concerts qu’elle a proposé incluait :
- An Afternoon with Debussy: a Centennial Tribute to the Faun – Debussy, Dukas, Mallarmé (Miller Theatre);
- Vienna-Paris: Arnold Schoenberg and his French Contemporaries - The links between Schoenberg and Ravel after World War I (The Jewish Museum);
- Transcriptions and Creative Copies in the 19th Century: Sacrilege or Interpretation? - Franz Liszt’s Transcriptions of songs by Schubert, Schumann and Mendelssohn, with an exhibition of copies of Old Masters made by the 19c painters Ingres and Delacroix (Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center).
Cet enseignement l’a conduite à adopter le langage cinématographique.
Ophra Yerushalmi a été intriguée et attirée par Franz Liszt depuis ses études avec Claudio Arrau, interprète de Liszt de renommée internationale. Son film « Liszt’s Dance with the Devil » s'inscrit dans la lignée de son film sur Frédéric Chopin,« Chopin’s Afterlife », distribué par Filmaker's Library et projeté à la télévision.
Ophra Yerushalmi, pianist and documentary filmmaker, studied at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and was later a scholarship student of Claudio Arrau and composer Stefan Wolpe.
She has performed throughout the United States, South America and Israel, as well as in London, Edinburgh, Oxford, Venice, Paris, Madrid, Krakow, Budapest, Lisbon, Munich, Dresden, Tokyo, Hong Kong and Singapore.
Her engagements with orchestras have included performances at the Casals Festival, with the Orquesta Sinfonica de Colombia, the Jerusalem Broadcasting Symphony and the Boston Pops.
She has premiered works of Israeli composers Paul Ben-Haim, Mordecai Seter and Joseph Tal.
New York audiences have heard her on WQXR, at the 92nd Street "Y", the Goethe Institute, Merkin Hall, the Maison Française of NYU, The Miller Theatre, Wall-to-Wall Schubert marathon at Symphony Space and The Music Festival of the Hamptons directed by Lukas Foss.
During several years as Affiliate in Music at Harvard University's Eliot House Ophra Yerushalmi developed a special way of presenting composers within the context of their own time – through music, art and literature.
Subsequent concert-programs have included:
“An Afternoon with Debussy: a Centennial Tribute to the Faun – Debussy, Dukas and Mallarmé" (Miller Theatre);
“Vienna-Paris: Arnold Schoenberg and his French Contemporaries”-- The links between Schoenberg and Ravel after World War I (The Jewish Museum);
“Transcriptions and Creative Copies in the 19th Century: Sacrilege or Interpretation?” – Franz Liszt’s Transcriptions of songs by Schubert, Schumann and Mendelssohn, with an exhibition of copies of Old Masters made by the 19th century painters Ingres and Delacroix (Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center).
The next, natural step from there were her movies:
Ophra died on February 22nd, 2017 at Calvary Hospital in the Bronx, exactly one month after a visit to Paris for the first projection of her latest film: "Prelude to Debussy."
Après des études à l’Académie de musique de Jérusalem, Ophra Yerushalmi s’est perfectionnée auprès de Claudio Arrau et du compositeur Stefan Wolpe.
Elle s’est produite aux États-Unis, en Amérique du Sud, en Israël et en Europe (Londres, Édimbourg, Oxford, Venise, Paris, Madrid, Cracovie, Budapest, Lisbonne, Munich, Dresde), ainsi qu’à Tokyo, à Hong Kong et à Singapour. Elle a joué avec l’Orchestre Symphonique de Colombie, le Jerusalem Broadcasting Symphony et le Boston Pops Orchestra.
Elle a créé des œuvres de compositeurs israéliens, tels Paul Ben-Haim, Mordecai Seter et Joseph Tal.
Le public de New York l’a entendue sur les ondes de la radio WQXR, au centre culturel The 92nd Street "Y", à l’Institut Goethe, au Merkin Hall, à la Maison Française de l’Université de New York, au Miller Theatre, durant le marathon Wall-to-Wall Schubert au Symphony Space et durant le Music Festival the Hamptons, dirigé par Lukas Foss.
Engagée à l’Université Harvard (Eliot House), au titre de Affiliate in Music, Ophra Yerushalmi a mis en place un enseignement présentant les compositeurs dans le contexte de leur époque – à travers la musique, l‘art et la littérature. Le programme-concerts qu’elle a proposé incluait :
- An Afternoon with Debussy: a Centennial Tribute to the Faun – Debussy, Dukas, Mallarmé (Miller Theatre);
- Vienna-Paris: Arnold Schoenberg and his French Contemporaries - The links between Schoenberg and Ravel after World War I (The Jewish Museum);
- Transcriptions and Creative Copies in the 19th Century: Sacrilege or Interpretation? - Franz Liszt’s Transcriptions of songs by Schubert, Schumann and Mendelssohn, with an exhibition of copies of Old Masters made by the 19c painters Ingres and Delacroix (Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center).
Cet enseignement l’a conduite à adopter le langage cinématographique.
Ophra Yerushalmi a été intriguée et attirée par Franz Liszt depuis ses études avec Claudio Arrau, interprète de Liszt de renommée internationale. Son film « Liszt’s Dance with the Devil » s'inscrit dans la lignée de son film sur Frédéric Chopin,« Chopin’s Afterlife », distribué par Filmaker's Library et projeté à la télévision.
Ophra Yerushalmi, pianist and documentary filmmaker, studied at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and was later a scholarship student of Claudio Arrau and composer Stefan Wolpe.
She has performed throughout the United States, South America and Israel, as well as in London, Edinburgh, Oxford, Venice, Paris, Madrid, Krakow, Budapest, Lisbon, Munich, Dresden, Tokyo, Hong Kong and Singapore.
Her engagements with orchestras have included performances at the Casals Festival, with the Orquesta Sinfonica de Colombia, the Jerusalem Broadcasting Symphony and the Boston Pops.
She has premiered works of Israeli composers Paul Ben-Haim, Mordecai Seter and Joseph Tal.
New York audiences have heard her on WQXR, at the 92nd Street "Y", the Goethe Institute, Merkin Hall, the Maison Française of NYU, The Miller Theatre, Wall-to-Wall Schubert marathon at Symphony Space and The Music Festival of the Hamptons directed by Lukas Foss.
During several years as Affiliate in Music at Harvard University's Eliot House Ophra Yerushalmi developed a special way of presenting composers within the context of their own time – through music, art and literature.
Subsequent concert-programs have included:
“An Afternoon with Debussy: a Centennial Tribute to the Faun – Debussy, Dukas and Mallarmé" (Miller Theatre);
“Vienna-Paris: Arnold Schoenberg and his French Contemporaries”-- The links between Schoenberg and Ravel after World War I (The Jewish Museum);
“Transcriptions and Creative Copies in the 19th Century: Sacrilege or Interpretation?” – Franz Liszt’s Transcriptions of songs by Schubert, Schumann and Mendelssohn, with an exhibition of copies of Old Masters made by the 19th century painters Ingres and Delacroix (Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center).
The next, natural step from there were her movies:
Ophra died on February 22nd, 2017 at Calvary Hospital in the Bronx, exactly one month after a visit to Paris for the first projection of her latest film: "Prelude to Debussy."
Après des études à l’Académie de musique de Jérusalem, Ophra Yerushalmi s’est perfectionnée auprès de Claudio Arrau et du compositeur Stefan Wolpe.
Elle s’est produite aux États-Unis, en Amérique du Sud, en Israël et en Europe (Londres, Édimbourg, Oxford, Venise, Paris, Madrid, Cracovie, Budapest, Lisbonne, Munich, Dresde), ainsi qu’à Tokyo, à Hong Kong et à Singapour. Elle a joué avec l’Orchestre Symphonique de Colombie, le Jerusalem Broadcasting Symphony et le Boston Pops Orchestra.
Elle a créé des œuvres de compositeurs israéliens, tels Paul Ben-Haim, Mordecai Seter et Joseph Tal.
Le public de New York l’a entendue sur les ondes de la radio WQXR, au centre culturel The 92nd Street "Y", à l’Institut Goethe, au Merkin Hall, à la Maison Française de l’Université de New York, au Miller Theatre, durant le marathon Wall-to-Wall Schubert au Symphony Space et durant le Music Festival the Hamptons, dirigé par Lukas Foss.
Engagée à l’Université Harvard (Eliot House), au titre de Affiliate in Music, Ophra Yerushalmi a mis en place un enseignement présentant les compositeurs dans le contexte de leur époque – à travers la musique, l‘art et la littérature. Le programme-concerts qu’elle a proposé incluait :
- An Afternoon with Debussy: a Centennial Tribute to the Faun – Debussy, Dukas, Mallarmé (Miller Theatre);
- Vienna-Paris: Arnold Schoenberg and his French Contemporaries - The links between Schoenberg and Ravel after World War I (The Jewish Museum);
- Transcriptions and Creative Copies in the 19th Century: Sacrilege or Interpretation? - Franz Liszt’s Transcriptions of songs by Schubert, Schumann and Mendelssohn, with an exhibition of copies of Old Masters made by the 19c painters Ingres and Delacroix (Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center).
Cet enseignement l’a conduite à adopter le langage cinématographique.
Ophra Yerushalmi a été intriguée et attirée par Franz Liszt depuis ses études avec Claudio Arrau, interprète de Liszt de renommée internationale. Son film « Liszt’s Dance with the Devil » s'inscrit dans la lignée de son film sur Frédéric Chopin,« Chopin’s Afterlife », distribué par Filmaker's Library et projeté à la télévision.
Ophra Yerushalmi, pianist and documentary filmmaker, studied at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and was later a scholarship student of Claudio Arrau and composer Stefan Wolpe.
She has performed throughout the United States, South America and Israel, as well as in London, Edinburgh, Oxford, Venice, Paris, Madrid, Krakow, Budapest, Lisbon, Munich, Dresden, Tokyo, Hong Kong and Singapore.
Her engagements with orchestras have included performances at the Casals Festival, with the Orquesta Sinfonica de Colombia, the Jerusalem Broadcasting Symphony and the Boston Pops.
She has premiered works of Israeli composers Paul Ben-Haim, Mordecai Seter and Joseph Tal.
New York audiences have heard her on WQXR, at the 92nd Street "Y", the Goethe Institute, Merkin Hall, the Maison Française of NYU, The Miller Theatre, Wall-to-Wall Schubert marathon at Symphony Space and The Music Festival of the Hamptons directed by Lukas Foss.
During several years as Affiliate in Music at Harvard University's Eliot House Ophra Yerushalmi developed a special way of presenting composers within the context of their own time – through music, art and literature.
Subsequent concert-programs have included:
“An Afternoon with Debussy: a Centennial Tribute to the Faun – Debussy, Dukas and Mallarmé" (Miller Theatre);
“Vienna-Paris: Arnold Schoenberg and his French Contemporaries”-- The links between Schoenberg and Ravel after World War I (The Jewish Museum);
“Transcriptions and Creative Copies in the 19th Century: Sacrilege or Interpretation?” – Franz Liszt’s Transcriptions of songs by Schubert, Schumann and Mendelssohn, with an exhibition of copies of Old Masters made by the 19th century painters Ingres and Delacroix (Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center).
The next, natural step from there were her movies:
Ophra died on February 22nd, 2017 at Calvary Hospital in the Bronx, exactly one month after a visit to Paris for the first projection of her latest film: "Prelude to Debussy."
Après des études à l’Académie de musique de Jérusalem, Ophra Yerushalmi s’est perfectionnée auprès de Claudio Arrau et du compositeur Stefan Wolpe.
Elle s’est produite aux États-Unis, en Amérique du Sud, en Israël et en Europe (Londres, Édimbourg, Oxford, Venise, Paris, Madrid, Cracovie, Budapest, Lisbonne, Munich, Dresde), ainsi qu’à Tokyo, à Hong Kong et à Singapour. Elle a joué avec l’Orchestre Symphonique de Colombie, le Jerusalem Broadcasting Symphony et le Boston Pops Orchestra.
Elle a créé des œuvres de compositeurs israéliens, tels Paul Ben-Haim, Mordecai Seter et Joseph Tal.
Le public de New York l’a entendue sur les ondes de la radio WQXR, au centre culturel The 92nd Street "Y", à l’Institut Goethe, au Merkin Hall, à la Maison Française de l’Université de New York, au Miller Theatre, durant le marathon Wall-to-Wall Schubert au Symphony Space et durant le Music Festival the Hamptons, dirigé par Lukas Foss.
Engagée à l’Université Harvard (Eliot House), au titre de Affiliate in Music, Ophra Yerushalmi a mis en place un enseignement présentant les compositeurs dans le contexte de leur époque – à travers la musique, l‘art et la littérature. Le programme-concerts qu’elle a proposé incluait :
- An Afternoon with Debussy: a Centennial Tribute to the Faun – Debussy, Dukas, Mallarmé (Miller Theatre);
- Vienna-Paris: Arnold Schoenberg and his French Contemporaries - The links between Schoenberg and Ravel after World War I (The Jewish Museum);
- Transcriptions and Creative Copies in the 19th Century: Sacrilege or Interpretation? - Franz Liszt’s Transcriptions of songs by Schubert, Schumann and Mendelssohn, with an exhibition of copies of Old Masters made by the 19c painters Ingres and Delacroix (Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center).
Cet enseignement l’a conduite à adopter le langage cinématographique.
Ophra Yerushalmi a été intriguée et attirée par Franz Liszt depuis ses études avec Claudio Arrau, interprète de Liszt de renommée internationale. Son film « Liszt’s Dance with the Devil » s'inscrit dans la lignée de son film sur Frédéric Chopin,« Chopin’s Afterlife », distribué par Filmaker's Library et projeté à la télévision.
Ophra Yerushalmi, pianist and documentary filmmaker, studied at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and was later a scholarship student of Claudio Arrau and composer Stefan Wolpe.
She has performed throughout the United States, South America and Israel, as well as in London, Edinburgh, Oxford, Venice, Paris, Madrid, Krakow, Budapest, Lisbon, Munich, Dresden, Tokyo, Hong Kong and Singapore.
Her engagements with orchestras have included performances at the Casals Festival, with the Orquesta Sinfonica de Colombia, the Jerusalem Broadcasting Symphony and the Boston Pops.
She has premiered works of Israeli composers Paul Ben-Haim, Mordecai Seter and Joseph Tal.
New York audiences have heard her on WQXR, at the 92nd Street "Y", the Goethe Institute, Merkin Hall, the Maison Française of NYU, The Miller Theatre, Wall-to-Wall Schubert marathon at Symphony Space and The Music Festival of the Hamptons directed by Lukas Foss.
During several years as Affiliate in Music at Harvard University's Eliot House Ophra Yerushalmi developed a special way of presenting composers within the context of their own time – through music, art and literature.
Subsequent concert-programs have included:
“An Afternoon with Debussy: a Centennial Tribute to the Faun – Debussy, Dukas and Mallarmé" (Miller Theatre);
“Vienna-Paris: Arnold Schoenberg and his French Contemporaries”-- The links between Schoenberg and Ravel after World War I (The Jewish Museum);
“Transcriptions and Creative Copies in the 19th Century: Sacrilege or Interpretation?” – Franz Liszt’s Transcriptions of songs by Schubert, Schumann and Mendelssohn, with an exhibition of copies of Old Masters made by the 19th century painters Ingres and Delacroix (Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center).
The next, natural step from there were her movies:
Ophra died on February 22nd, 2017 at Calvary Hospital in the Bronx, exactly one month after a visit to Paris for the first projection of her latest film: "Prelude to Debussy."
Ophra Yerushalmi, pianist and documentary filmmaker, studied at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and was later a scholarship student of Claudio Arrau and composer Stefan Wolpe.
She has performed throughout the United States, South America and Israel, as well as in London, Edinburgh, Oxford, Venice, Paris, Madrid, Krakow, Budapest, Lisbon, Munich, Dresden, Tokyo, Hong Kong and Singapore.
Her engagements with orchestras have included performances at the Casals Festival, with the Orquesta Sinfonica de Colombia, the Jerusalem Broadcasting Symphony and the Boston Pops.
She has premiered works of Israeli composers Paul Ben-Haim, Mordecai Seter and Joseph Tal.
New York audiences have heard her on WQXR, at the 92nd Street "Y", the Goethe Institute, Merkin Hall, the Maison Française of NYU, The Miller Theatre, Wall-to-Wall Schubert marathon at Symphony Space and The Music Festival of the Hamptons directed by Lukas Foss.
During several years as Affiliate in Music at Harvard University's Eliot House Ophra Yerushalmi developed a special way of presenting composers within the context of their own time – through music, art and literature.
Subsequent concert-programs have included:
“An Afternoon with Debussy: a Centennial Tribute to the Faun – Debussy, Dukas and Mallarmé" (Miller Theatre);
“Vienna-Paris: Arnold Schoenberg and his French Contemporaries”-- The links between Schoenberg and Ravel after World War I (The Jewish Museum);
“Transcriptions and Creative Copies in the 19th Century: Sacrilege or Interpretation?” – Franz Liszt’s Transcriptions of songs by Schubert, Schumann and Mendelssohn, with an exhibition of copies of Old Masters made by the 19th century painters Ingres and Delacroix (Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center).
The next, natural step from there were her movies:
Ophra died on February 22nd, 2017 at Calvary Hospital in the Bronx, exactly one month after a visit to Paris for the first projection of her latest film: "Prelude to Debussy."
Ophra Yerushalmi, pianist and documentary filmmaker, studied at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and was later a scholarship student of Claudio Arrau and composer Stefan Wolpe.
She has performed throughout the United States, South America and Israel, as well as in London, Edinburgh, Oxford, Venice, Paris, Madrid, Krakow, Budapest, Lisbon, Munich, Dresden, Tokyo, Hong Kong and Singapore.
Her engagements with orchestras have included performances at the Casals Festival, with the Orquesta Sinfonica de Colombia, the Jerusalem Broadcasting Symphony and the Boston Pops.
She has premiered works of Israeli composers Paul Ben-Haim, Mordecai Seter and Joseph Tal.
New York audiences have heard her on WQXR, at the 92nd Street "Y", the Goethe Institute, Merkin Hall, the Maison Française of NYU, The Miller Theatre, Wall-to-Wall Schubert marathon at Symphony Space and The Music Festival of the Hamptons directed by Lukas Foss.
During several years as Affiliate in Music at Harvard University's Eliot House Ophra Yerushalmi developed a special way of presenting composers within the context of their own time – through music, art and literature.
Subsequent concert-programs have included:
“An Afternoon with Debussy: a Centennial Tribute to the Faun – Debussy, Dukas and Mallarmé" (Miller Theatre);
“Vienna-Paris: Arnold Schoenberg and his French Contemporaries”-- The links between Schoenberg and Ravel after World War I (The Jewish Museum);
“Transcriptions and Creative Copies in the 19th Century: Sacrilege or Interpretation?” – Franz Liszt’s Transcriptions of songs by Schubert, Schumann and Mendelssohn, with an exhibition of copies of Old Masters made by the 19th century painters Ingres and Delacroix (Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center).
The next, natural step from there were her movies:
Ophra died on February 22nd, 2017 at Calvary Hospital in the Bronx, exactly one month after a visit to Paris for the first projection of her latest film: "Prelude to Debussy."
Après des études à l’Académie de musique de Jérusalem, Ophra Yerushalmi s’est perfectionnée auprès de Claudio Arrau et du compositeur Stefan Wolpe.
Elle s’est produite aux États-Unis, en Amérique du Sud, en Israël et en Europe (Londres, Édimbourg, Oxford, Venise, Paris, Madrid, Cracovie, Budapest, Lisbonne, Munich, Dresde), ainsi qu’à Tokyo, à Hong Kong et à Singapour. Elle a joué avec l’Orchestre Symphonique de Colombie, le Jerusalem Broadcasting Symphony et le Boston Pops Orchestra.
Elle a créé des œuvres de compositeurs israéliens, tels Paul Ben-Haim, Mordecai Seter et Joseph Tal.
Le public de New York l’a entendue sur les ondes de la radio WQXR, au centre culturel The 92nd Street "Y", à l’Institut Goethe, au Merkin Hall, à la Maison Française de l’Université de New York, au Miller Theatre, durant le marathon Wall-to-Wall Schubert au Symphony Space et durant le Music Festival the Hamptons, dirigé par Lukas Foss.
Engagée à l’Université Harvard (Eliot House), au titre de Affiliate in Music, Ophra Yerushalmi a mis en place un enseignement présentant les compositeurs dans le contexte de leur époque – à travers la musique, l‘art et la littérature. Le programme-concerts qu’elle a proposé incluait :
- An Afternoon with Debussy: a Centennial Tribute to the Faun – Debussy, Dukas, Mallarmé (Miller Theatre);
- Vienna-Paris: Arnold Schoenberg and his French Contemporaries - The links between Schoenberg and Ravel after World War I (The Jewish Museum);
- Transcriptions and Creative Copies in the 19th Century: Sacrilege or Interpretation? - Franz Liszt’s Transcriptions of songs by Schubert, Schumann and Mendelssohn, with an exhibition of copies of Old Masters made by the 19c painters Ingres and Delacroix (Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center).
Cet enseignement l’a conduite à adopter le langage cinématographique.
Ophra Yerushalmi a été intriguée et attirée par Franz Liszt depuis ses études avec Claudio Arrau, interprète de Liszt de renommée internationale. Son film « Liszt’s Dance with the Devil » s'inscrit dans la lignée de son film sur Frédéric Chopin,« Chopin’s Afterlife », distribué par Filmaker's Library et projeté à la télévision.