Eitan Steinberg: List of works
Music can be obtained from the composer, unless indicated otherwise

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Orchestral works

-(2008) "Cosmic Progressions in the Heart" for chamber orchestra (14 min.)
Commissioned and premiered by the Israeli Camerata Jerusalem, December 2008,
as part of the orchestra's concert series in Tel-Aviv, Jerusalem, Haifa, Rehovot,
Modi'in and Kefar Shemaryahu. Conductor: Avner Biron

-(2004) "The Bride Unfastens her Braids, the Groom Faints"
for voice & chmaber orchestra (40 min., Ladino)
Comissioned by the Israeli Chamber Orchestara. Written for and premiered by vocalist
Etty Ben-Zaken and the Israeli Chamber Orchestra, Eitan Steinberg, conductor. March 2004,
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel-Aviv, Israel. Also performed by Haifa Symphony (May 2008)
and by Israel Camerata Jerusalem (July 2008) both with Ben-Zaken as soloist.

-(1997) "They Meet Again and Now They Dance" (10 min.)
Premiered by UC Berkeley Symphony, David Milnes, conductor. April 1999, Hertz Hall,
Berkeley, California.

-(1997/2004) "Variousrespirations" for voice, viola and orchestra (17min., English,
Hebrew, Arabic, Turkish, Polish, Serbo-Croatian, Portuguese, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Korean)
Won the Nicola DeLorenzo Composition Award, 1998.

-(1996) "In a Hidden Cleft among Cliffs a Gazelle Drinks Water" (Orchestral version)
for voice, viola & string orchestra (10 min., Yiddish, Spanish, Italian, Arabic, Russian, Hebrew)

-(1994) "Wedding Song" (18 min.)
Published by IMI, Israel Music Institute.
Won the Nicola DeLorenzo Composition Award, 1995.

(1993) "Shanti" (15 min.)
Published by IMI, Israel Music Institute.
Won the Israel Philharmonic Composition Award, 1994.
Premiered by the Israel Philharmonic, Gari Bertini, conductor. Jan. 1994, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
Recorded for the Israeli Radio on Sept. 1996, Jerusalem Symphony, Ilan Wolkov, conductor.

(1992) "Look, Beauty" for mezzo-soprano, rock singer, rock band, orchestra (17 min.)
Written for and premiered by vocalists Etty Ben-Zaken and Galit Florentz,
Tel-Aviv Symphony, Itay Talgam, conductor. Jan. 1993, Tel-Aviv, Israel.

Music-Theater

-(2007) "The Fool" a miniature opera for voice, viola and percussion (30 min., English)
Text, set design, staging: Etty Ben-Zaken
Commissioned by the New England Conservatory of Music, Boston, USA.
Written for and premiered by vocalist Etty Ben-Zaken, violist Kim Kashkashian and percussionist
Robyn Schulkovsky. Premier: May 2007, Musiktriennale, Koln, Germany.
Recorded (live) for the German Radio WDR. More info

-(2006) "The Fool who Loved Singing" Music-Theater for voice, 7 instrumentalists, soundtext
artist and a dancer (30 min., English, Hebrew)
Text, set design, staging: Etty Ben-Zaken
Commissioned by and premiered at the Voice of Music Festival in Upper Galilee, October 2006, Israel.
Written for and premiered by vocalist Etty Ben-Zaken, dancer Anat Shamgar, soundtext artist
Josef Shprinzak and the festival's ensemble. More info

-(2004) "Stabat Mater - a Human Prayer" Music-Theater for voice, string quartet and sound-track
(30 min., English, Ladino, Latin, Hebrew, Arabic)
Text, set design, staging: Etty Ben-Zaken.
Comissioned by and premiered at the Voice of Music Festival in Upper Galilee, August 2004, Israel.
Written for and premiered by vocalist Etty Ben-Zaken and the Israeli Contemporary Quartet.
Also performed at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, October 2004, the Spring Festival in Rishon Lezion,
April 2005, the Israel Music Days in Haifa, October 2007. US premier: vocalist Etty Ben-Zaken
and ensemble Mallarme, March 2006, Duke University, NC. European premier: vocalist Etty Ben-Zaken
and ensemble Orchestrautopica, October 2007, Lisbon, Portugal.
Recorded (live) by the Israeli Radio. More info

-(2002) "The Sultan is Pregnant" Music-Theater for voice & 7 instruments
(30 min, English, Hebrew, Arabic)
Text, set design, staging: Etty Ben-Zaken.
Comissioned by and premiered at the Voice of Music Festival in Upper Galilee, July 2002, Israel.
Written for and premiered by vocalist Etty Ben-Zaken and the festival's ensemble. Conductor:
Eitan Steinberg. US premier: Etty Ben-Zaken and Boston Musica Viva, Richard Pittman, conductor,
October 2004, Boston.
Recorded (live) by the Israeli Radio and by the Israeli TV. More info

-(1995) "Blue With Tail" Music-Video for voice, recorder, clarinet, violin, viola, cello, guitar & percussion.
(26 min., English, Hebrew)
Video artist: Marit Benisrael.
Screened in Israel at the Jerusalem International Film Festival (July 1996), the Tel-Aviv Cinematheque
(July 1996), Phenomena - The International Festival for Performance, Jerusalem (Aug. 1996).
Screened in the U.S. at the University of California at Berkeley (April 1996), and in France, at Lions'
Video-Dance Film Festival (May 1996). More info

-(1994) "Princess of Five Faces" Music-Theater for a singer/actress, recorder, string trio,
lute & 2 percussionists. (36 min., English/Hebrew)
Text: Etty Ben-Zaken, based on excerpts from "Dictionary of the Khazars" by Milorad Pavic.
Set design, staging: Etty Ben-Zaken.
Written for and premiered by vocalist Etty Ben-Zaken and the festival's ensemble, the Voice of Music
Festival in Upper Galilee, July 1995, Israel. Also performed at Phenomena - The International Festival
for Performance, Jerusalem (Aug. 1996).
Recorded (live) by the Israeli Radio. Won Eitan Steinberg the nomination for the 1996 Israeli ACUM
award “Composer of The Year.” More info

-(1994) "Gog and Magog" live music design using traditional Hassidic prayers, for 12 actors/singers.
(40 min.) Stage director: Michal Govrin.
Premiered May 1994, Israel Festival, Jerusalem, Israel.

-(1993) "Sarah" music for a theater show, for voice solo. (15 min., Hebrew)
Commissioned by Theater Company Jerusalem. Written for and premiered by vocalist Ruth Wieder-Magan.

-(1992) "The Face Dance of Eve" Music-Video for voice, piccolo, violin, viola & cello.
(11 min., English)
Video artist: Marit Benisrael.
Screened in Israel at the Tel-Aviv Museum of Art, Tel-Aviv; the Yanco Dada Museum, Ein Hod;
Beyt Zioney America, Tel-Aviv; and at the Jerusalem Cinematheque. Also Screened in Wroclaw, Poland.
More info

Works for large ensemble

-(2005) 3 Medieval Dances for 11 Instruments, and a Jewish Folk Song (17 min.)
(With female voice in the folksong)
Commissioned by and premiered at the Voice of Music Festival in Upper Galilee, 2005.

-(2005) 7 Folk Songs for voice and 7 instruments (25 min., Armenian, Yiddish, Ladino, Hebrew, German)
Written for and premiered by Etty Ben-Zaken and ensemble, as part of the 32nd Annual Board
Meeting of Haifa University, May 2005. Also performed at the Renaissance Festival, Yechiam, Israel.
Available also in a voice & 4 instruments version.

-(2005) 4 Ladino Folk Songs Arrangements for voice and 10 instruments. (13 min.) (One of the songs
includes 3 voices: 1 sop. 2 alt)
Written for and premiered by Etty Ben-Zaken and ensemble, Renaissance Festival, Yechiam,
Israel, 2005.

-(2005) Arr. "La Pasion segun San Marco" by Osvaldo Golijov (excerpts)
Arranged for voice, string quartet, guitar, accordion and percussion. (15 min.)
Premiered April 2005, "Spring Festival" Rishon Letzion, Israel, by vocalist Etty Ben-Zaken
and ensemble. Conductor: Eitan Steinberg.

-(1999) "Moving/Stills" for 15 instruments and 8 voices. (17 min.)

-(1987/93) "La Vita di Sempre" for mezzo-soprano, 2 narrators, woodwind quartet, trumpet,
horn, string quartet and percussion. (15 min., Italian, French)
Written for vocalist Etty Ben-Zaken. Premier: Ben-Zaken and Ensemble Musica Nova, April 1994,
Tel-Aviv, Israel.

-(1990) "The Old Man who Said 'Why'" for mezzo-soprano, woodwind quartet, string quartet and percussion.
(15 min., English, Hebrew, Spanish, Italian, German, Ladino)
Written for and premiered by vocalist Etty Ben-Zaken and Ensemble Musica Nova, Nov. 1990,
Tel-Aviv Museum of Art, Israel. U.S. premier: vocalist Etty Ben-Zaken, Oct. 1994, Hertz Hall, Berkeley.
Recorded by the Israeli Radio.

-(1988/91) "Conversations in the Ninth Person" for 9 string instruments or for string orchestra. (10 min.)
Commissioned and premiered by Camerata String Orchestra, Feb. 1988, Jerusalem, Israel.
Recorded by the Israeli Radio.


Chamber works

- (2009) "Stairs of the Unknown" for voice and ensemble (12 min., Hebrew)
Text from 3 poems by Raquel Chalfi.
Commissioned by ensemble Meitar. Premiered by vocalist Etty Ben-Zaken and ensemble Meitar, February 2009, Tel-Aviv. Conductor: Eitan Steinberg.

-(2006) "Travvveling" for two voices (5 min., English)
Written for and premiered by vocalists Etty Ben-Zaken and Anat Pick. Premiered March 2006, Festival
"Kola shel Ha-mila", Chan Theater, Jerusalem, and widely performed since.

-(2006) "The Love Medicine" A song cycle for voice and guitar (80 min.)
Written for and premiered by vocalist Etty Ben-Zaken and guitarist Oded Shoub. Premiered
December 2006 at the "Fool-Wise Storytelling Festival" Malta, and widely performed since. Among the
venues: Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Confederation House Jerusalem, Felicia Blumental Center Tel-Aviv,
Haifa Tikotin Museum.

-(2004) Arr. "Stabat Mater" by Antonio Vivaldi
Arranged for voice and string quartet (22 min.)
Premiered by vocalist Etty Ben-Zaken and the Israeli Contemporary Quartet, August 2004,
the Voice of Music Festival in Upper Galilee, Israel.

-(2004) "Milmulin" for voice and 2 percussion players (15 min., imaginary language)
Written for and premiered by vocalist Etty Ben-Zaken and percussionists Abe Doron and Karen Penpimon.
Premiered May 2004, Tel-Aviv University, Department of Theater, and widely performed since.

(2003) "Rava Deravin" (instrumental version) for viola & string quartet (14 min.)
Written for violist Kim Kashkashian. Premier: Kim Kashkashian and the Kuss Quartet, May 2003,
Kronberg Viola Festival, Germany.
Recorded by ECM Records, January 2006.

-(2003) "At Chilwe" for voice, flute, Arabic violin, viola, double-bass & daff (16 min., Hebrew, Arabic).
Commisioned by and recorded as part of "Aley Shir" in memory of Dany Cohen.
Written for and premiered by vocalist Etty Ben-Zaken and The Arab-Jweish ensemble of the Israel
Philharmonic, Febuary 2003, "Aley Shir" concert in memory of Dany Cohen, Kibbutz Mizra.

-(2002) "Where the Peace River Flows" for voice & 7 instruments (15 min., chamber version of
parts from "Variousrespirations" for voice & orchestra.)
Written for and premiered by vocalist Etty Ben-Zaken. Premier: Ben-Zaken and soloists from the
Israel Philharmonic, October 2002, New Music Biannale, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel.
Recorded (live) by the Israeli Radio.

-(2001) "Rava Deravin" (original vocal version) for voice, flute, clarinet, violin, viola, cello, piano
(14 min., Aramaic).
Written for and premiered by vocalist Etty Ben-Zaken, conductor Richard Pittman and the Boston
Musica Viva. US premier: November 2002, Boston. Israeli premier: Etty Ben-Zaken and the Israeli
Contemporary Players, December 2002, Tel-Aviv and Jerusalem.
Recorded June 2001, Ben-Zaken and BMV conducted by Richard Pittman.
Live recording by the Israeli Radio: Ben-Zaken and Israeli Contemporary Players, December 2002.

-(2001) "Transparent Rain" ("Aria") for voice & piano. (4 min., Hebrew)
Premiered by vocalist Etty Ben-Zaken & pianist Irena Fridland, Feb. 2005, Haifa University.

-(2000) "Fragile" for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano & percussion (8 min.)
Commissioned and premiered by the Berkeley Contemporary Chamber Players.
Premier: University of California at Berkeley, April 2000. Israeli premiere: ensemble Musica Nova, 2001.
Recorded June 2001, Boston Musica Viva, Richarf Pittman, conductor.

-(2000) "Guitardion" for guitar quartet (10 min.)
Comissioned by the San Francisco Guitar Quartet.

-(1999) "The Bride Unfastens Her Braids, The Groom Faints" settings of Judeo-Spanish love songs
for voice, recorder, guitar, cello/viola da gamba and ethnic percussion (80 min., Ladino) also available
in Voice & Guitar version and Voice & Orchestra version.
Written for and premiered by vocalist Etty Ben-Zaken and ensemble Yatan Atan.
Premiered Oct. 1998, Hertz Hall, Berkeley, and widely performed since. Among the venues:
Tel-Aviv Museum of Art, Israel (Jan. ‘99), the 14th Annual Jewish Music Festival, Berkeley (March ‘99),
A Traveling Jewish Theater, San Francisco (March ‘99), the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts,
San Francisco (April ‘99), the Voice of Music Festival in Upper Galilee, Israel, and numerous others.
CD release: Sep. 1999, New Albion Records.
Recorded (live) by the Israeli Radio and the Israeli TV (July 2002).

-(1997) "Talk Talk Talk" for violin, viola, cello (5 min.)
Commissioned by the Jerusalem Rubin Academy of Music, Jerusalem, Israel, as part of its
50th anniversary celebrations.
Premiered March 1998, Jerusalem, Israel.
Recorded June 2001, Boston Musica Viva, Richarf Pittman, conductor.

-(1996) "Two Grandfathers Sing" for flute and string quartet. (11 min.)
Written for and premiered by flutist Rami Tal and Ensemble Musica Nova, May ‘96, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
American Premier: May 1997, Hertz Hall, Berkeley.
Recorded June 2001, Boston Musica Viva, Richarf Pittman, conductor.

-(1996) "In a Hidden Cleft among Cliffs a Gazelle Drinks Water" (original duo version)
for voice and viola (10 min.)
Premiered Oct. 1996, Hertz Hall, Berkeley, by vocalist Etty Ben-Zaken and viola player Michelle Dulak,
and widely performed since. Other US performances include Opus 415 New Music Marathon,
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco (Nov. ‘98).
Recorded June 2001, vocalist Etty Ben-Zaken and violist Michelle LaCourse from the Boston Musica Viva.

-(1994) "Song of the Bride's Mother" for voice and 3 violas, based on a Judeo-Spanish folk
song from Morocco. (6 min., Ladino)
Written for and premiered by vocalist Etty Ben-Zaken, Nov. 1994, Hertz Hall, Berkeley.

-(1991) "Silent Eyes" for voice, recorder, string trio, ud and tabla (10 min., Hebrew, English)
Written for and premiered by vocalist Etty Ben-Zaken, April 1991, Tel-Aviv, Israel. US premier:
Oct. 1997, Hertz Hall, Berkeley.
Recorded by the Israeli Radio.

-(1990) "Simplicity" arrangements of 3 folk songs with 2 interludes, for voice, soprano saxophone,
accordion and guitar. (10 min., Bulgarian, Ladino, Arabic, English)
Written for and premiered by vocalist Etty Ben-Zaken, March 1990, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
US performances include: Composers Inc. Concert Series, San Francisco (April ‘97),
The 11th Annual Jewish Music Festival, Berkeley (March ‘96), and Opus 415 New Music Marathon,
San Francisco (Nov. ‘95). Recorded by the Israeli Radio.

Choral works

-(2004) "Tov Me'od Lihyot" ("Very Good To Be") for youth mixed choir (8 min., Hebrew)
Commissioned and premiered by Nofar choir, Miri Sadeh, conductor, July 2005, Karmiel, Israel.

-(1999) "Arvoles Yoran por Luvias" for mixed chorus (4 min., Ladino)
Premiered by the Romeo and Julia choir, Stokholm, Sweden, 2000.

-(1998) "The Prayer of The Ba’al Shem" for mixed chorus (4 min., Hebrew)
Commissioned by the Northern California Board of Cantors. Premiered March 1998, San Francisco,
as part of the 4th Annual Bay Area Jewish Choral Fest.

-(1993) "Moroccan Poem" for children’s chorus (2 min., Hebrew)
Commissioned and published by the Israeli National Council of Culture and Art.
Premiered May 1994, Tel-Aviv, Israel, as part of the 1994 Children Chorus Workshop.
Recorded (live) by the Israeli Radio.

(1989) "Sails Out of Sleep" for mixed chorus (11 min., English, German, Spanish, Hebrew, French, Italian)
Premiered April 1991, Tel-Aviv Museum of Art, Tel-Aviv, Israel. US premier: Nov. 1996, Hertz Hall,
Berkeley, UC Berkeley Chamber Chorus, John Butt, conductor.


Solo works

-(2008) "Little Inner Events" for harp solo (7 min.)
Commissioned by the Harp & Zamir Society as part of the 17th International Harp Contest in Israel.
Premiered by harpist Gitit Boasson, May 2009, Trl-Aviv.

-(2003) "Eifo Ta'ino, Toda Raba" ("Where Have We Gone Wrong, Thank You") for vioce solo
(13 min., Hebrew)
Written for and premiered by vocalist Etty Ben-Zaken, May 2003, Hecht Hall, Haifa, and widely
performed since.

-(1998) "Angel’s Steps" for piano solo (8 min.)
Written for and premiered by pianist Sarah Cahill, May 1999, Hertz Hall, Berkeley. Also performed
by pianist Greg McCallum, March 2006, Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall, New York.

-(1995) "For Two and a Half Years" for voice and electronics. (6 min., Hebrew)
Written for and premiered by vocalist Etty Ben-Zaken. Premier: Dec. 1995 CNMAT, Center for New
Music and Audio-Technology, Berkeley.

-(1994) "Open" for piano solo. (8 min.)
Commissioned by the Jerusalem Museum Music Series, Jerusalem, Israel.
Premiered by pianist Sarah Cahill, ODC Gallery, San Francisco, Nov. 1996.

-(1987) "Moods" for mandolin solo. (6 min.)
Written for and premiered by mandolin player Yonatan Roshfeld. Premier: Dec. 1987, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
Recorded by the Israeli Radio.

-(1986) "Four Pictures for Solo Guitar" (6 min.)
Written for and premiered by guitarist Shlomo Oz. Premier: Aug. 1986, Jerusalem, Israel. Performed
in Israel and Spain by guitarist Daniel Akiva, who also recorded the piece for the Israeli Radio.