Ofer Ben-Amots

Temple Shalom is opening the 2024-2025 Chamber Music Series with a special event featuring the music of Ofer Ben-Amots. He is an Israeli-American composer, publisher, and teacher of music composition and theory at Colorado College. His music is inspired by Jewish folklore of Eastern-European Yiddish, Judeo-Spanish Ladino tradition, and the rich cultural landscape of his Israeli background. The interweaving of folk elements with contemporary textures creates the dynamic tension that permeates and defines Ben-Amots’ musical language.

Guest artists include Susan Grace, Piano; Jennifer DeDominici, Mezzo Soprano; Jeri Jorgeansen, Violin; Jenny Yopp, Cello;Rick Shapiro, Clarinet; and Karen Shapiro, Flute.

This program is sponsored in part by the Ruth Adler Schnee Music Fund.

A wine and cheese reception will follow the concert.