Efrat
Resumé
E-mail: efrat@efratmusic.com
http://www.efratmusic.com
Education:
MM (MASTERS IN MUSIC) Aug. 2001 - present
Violin Performance
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Teachers: Mark Zelmanovich, Jerry & Patty Coker, Rusty Holloway
BS (General Studies +Music) Diploma May 2001
Indiana University, Bloomington
Teachers: Yuval Yaron, Henryk Kowalski, David Baker, David Boe
TV/Recording Experience
- Ja Rule/7 Aurelius - Demo and album recording
Duo and with the JADE Quartet - Red Spyda - Beat Production
- Party Planner W/David Tuttera
DISCOVERY channel - Bobbi Eakes: Something Beautiful with the JADE Quartet
- JADE Quartet www.jadequartet.com
- Tennessee Schmalz www.tennesseeschmaltz.com
- Studio Orchestra - Concertmaster University of Tennessee
- Ja Rule
- Ashanti
- Frank Senior
- Kenny Simmons
- The Milliner (NY off-Broadway play) soundtrack recording 2006
Other Performance Experience:
- Arranger/Composer/Transcriber (Various Projects) Jan 2004 - present
- Matt Stamm www.mattstamm.com (JADE Quartet) NY
- Darren Greenawalt (JADE Quartet)
- Eran Phillips
- Miyorka the musical
- Olivia Newton John Concerts NY, CT, NJ - Concertmaster - 2003,2004
- "Fiddler on the Roof" Cumberland Co. Playhouse Spring 2003 - Fiddler and Concertmaster
- Studio Orchestra - University of Tennessee - Concertmaster 2002-2003
- Symphony Orchestra - University of Tennessee - Concertmaster 2002-2003
- "The Rusty Strings" jazz quintet - 1st violin - 2002-2003
(Rusty Holloway- String Dept. Chair @ University of Tennessee) - Knoxville Museum of Art "Alive after Five" Aug. 9, 2002
- WDVX- radio "Behind the Barn" April 2001
W/Cheryl Renee; Blues night Knoxville, TN - The Lorin Maazel Shira Festival Orchestra in Jerusalem (Israel) Dec. 1997-Jan.1998
*Conductors: Aldo Ceccato and Zubin Mehta - "Saba" violin, kamancheh 1997-1999
Middle-eastern, gypsy, world folk IN, NY
Orchestral Experience:
- Knoxville Symphony, TN 2000-2003
- Greenville Symphony, SC 2001-2002
- Shira International Festival Orchestra, Israel 1997-1998
- Evansville Philharmonic, IN 1994-1998
- Terra Haute Symphony, IN
- Bloomington Pops Symphony, IN
- Bloomington Camerata, IN
- Owensboro Philharmonic, KY
Honors:
- Henry Mancini Institute, Full Scholarship + Summer 2003
- University of Tennessee, Full Scholarship + 2001-2003
- Indiana University Music Performance Scholar 1994-1998
- Oak Ridge Youth Aliyah winner 1987,88,89,92,93
- Chautauqua Music Festival, scholarship 1993
- Oak Ridge Symphony Concerto Competition 1986, 1993
*youngest soloist ever
- Knoxville Youth Symphony 1988-1992
*youngest granted membership ever in '88