Soprano voice
SKU:
OT.28101
Composed by
Daniel Akiva. For
mezzo-soprano and piano.
Classical, Jewish.
Performance score. OR-TAV
Music Publications
#28101. Published by
OR-TAV Music Publications
(OT.28101).
ISBN
9789655050752. 8.27 x
11.69 inches.
Song
cycle in Ladino for
mezzo-soprano and piano.
The song cycle
Sarina kanta is sung in
Ladino and was inspired
by Sephardic folk songs.
Various folk songs are
quoted in the work. The
first movement is a
fantasia based on a poem
by Avner Perez, Sarina
kanta romansas, (Sarina
sings romances). Sarina
is Perez' grandmother,
whose memory is recalled
in this cycle of poems.
The remaining movements
are based on songs from
the Ladino repertoire.
Sarina kanta is also
published for soprano and
piano, and in the
original version for
mezzo-soprano and string
orchestra.
Contents:
Sarina
kanta
Una matika de
ruda
Ya abasha la
novia
La
Estreyas
Ya salio de
la mar
Daniel Akiva is
a composer, performer,
and educator whose
performances on guitar
and lute have won great
acclaim. Mr. Akiva
graduated from the Rubin
Academy of Music in
Jerusalem in 1981, where
he studied classical
guitar with Haim Asulin
and composition with Haim
Alexander. In 1987 he
completed his studies at
the Geneva Conservatorium
in Switzerland where he
studied lute with
Jonathon Rubin and
composition with Jean
Ballisa. FOr many years
he chaired the Music
Department at the WIZO
High School for the Arts
in Haifa, which he
founded in 1986, and
served as the Artistic
Director of the Guitar
Gems Festival from
2006-1019. As part of his
work at WIZO High School,
he has developed a method
for teaching free
improvisation that has
been incorporated into
the music program at the
school.
Mr. Akiva has
appeared in concert as a
guitarist and lutist and
given master classes in
Israel, Europe, Russia,
the United States, and
Latin America. Daniel
Akiva’s compositional
output includes works for
solo instruments, chamber
ensembles, choir, voice
and guitar, piano, and
chamber orchestra. His
works have been recorded
on twelve CDs, the latest
of which, Malchut, was
issued by OR-TAV in 2014.
A native of Haifa
whose family has lived in
Israel for over five
hundred years, he was
steeped in the Sephardic
(Jewish-Spanish)
tradition from his youth.
Much of his compositional
output has been devoted
to a dialogue with the
music of the Sephardic
Jews. Daniel Akiva has
also maintained a
creative dialogue over
many years with the poets
and writers Amnon
Shamash, Rivka Miriam,
and Avner Peretz.
