Oboe
SKU: OT.23127
Composed by Daniel Akiva.
4 miniatures for oboe
solo. Classical, Jewish.
Score. OR-TAV Music
Publications #23127.
Published by OR-TAV Music
Publications (OT.23127).
ISBN 9789655050721.
8.27 x 11.69
inches.
Bakashot
are piyyutim (relig
ious poems) which are
sung late at night mostly
on Sabbaths and holidays.
These poems have many
spiritual and mystical
influences, and their
origin is among the
Sephardic Jews before the
Expulsion from Spain. The
singing of
the bakashot was
expanded during the 16th
Century, particularly by
the mystics in Safed, and
appears also in the
singing of the
the maftirim among
Turkish Jews.
These
four miniatures for oboe
solo are personal prayers
written in the
inspiration of the
bakashot.
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 headed 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
2006-2019. 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.
Mystics
