Biography

Itamar Asaf Tal plays a wide variety of styles and instruments: flutes, percussion and stringed instruments. He is a singer songwriter, composer, a music producer,
and an ethnomusicologist, recently invested in entrepreneurship mostly in music and education.

Included among the musical instruments played by Itamar are Middle Eastern, Indian, Chinese, African, South and North American drums, flutes and strings combined with modern synth keys and software - which allow a wide range of traditional and modern tones from all over the world.

Itamar has specialized in playing ancient Persian / Bukharin rhythms for 9 years, often drawing inspiration from drummers, musicians and composers from all around the world. this added to the long length rock and funk drumming and singing, seasoned with original style of flute playing flavored with world music touches.

Itamar studied music at the Faculty of Musical Education at Levinsky College in Tel Aviv for 7 years and while there, was a significant part of the College's representative ensemble for 3 years. There he conducted research into the poetry of the Jews of Cochin, a small and ancient community (2500 years), located in southern India.

In his studies he has also explored Spanish and Ladino melodies, the philosophy of the Russian National Jewish music School, the history of Western music, and the history of Jewish-Israeli music, western music theory, south American ensembles, music in the film industry, opera and musicals, modern music analysis, improvisation, music criticism, Structure Analysis, traditional harmony, composition, choral conducting, band training, ethno-musicology, pedagogic aspects of musical education, philosophical aspects of education, Developmental Psychology, cognition, rythmusic, Orf and Kodai, Aspects of special education, Study planning and editing.

Itamar received a scholarship of excellence for these studies.

Throughout his years as a performing musician, Itamar has learned from the best music teachers in Israel and played in a large number of diverse musical ensembles, orchestras, choral, and rock bands with first-rate musicians on professional performance stages.

Among his teachers are Ilana Kenig [voice development],
Yossi Levy [guitar], Shlomo Oz [guitar], Michael Delman [flute], Carol Tillman [flute], Danny Vela [drums],
Dr. Tanya Borisova [piano], Ilya Dubosersky [conducting],
Dr. Moshe Rasyuk [music theory, ensembles], Yossi Yampel [production, computerized music environment, ensembles, Accompaniment of musical ensembles] Dr. Hagar Kadima [music theory, children songs composition] ,
Prof. Moshe Zorman [Accompaniment harmonic piano playing, composition], Dr. Rita flomenboim [russion ascola of music, shostakovich, jewish music in the shoa], Dr. Dochi Lichtenstein [musical education acdemic aspects] , Alexandra Katz [rythmusic, musical education planing],
Lily Levin [Kindergarten music teaching], Dr. Shai Cohen [music in film industry, accompaniment & harmony, jazz ensemble],
Dr. Ronen Shapira [improvisation],
Doret Florentin [recorder teaching],
Noam Ben Zeev [music criticism, opera],
Nathalie Goldenberg [choir conducting methods, music of israel], Prof. Ron Zarhi [choire],
Avital Yitzhari [music and movement],
Esther Keenan [ladino ensemble], Dr. Gila Flam [jewish music in the shoa], Dr. Yifat Shochat [history of western music],
Dr. Yigal Mirtenbaum [accompaniment & harmony, computerized music environment, composing]
Dr. Daphna Cohen [cognition, field music teaching]
Dr. David Senesh [psychological teaching aspects] ,
Dr. Baht Eyal [composition, music analysis,
Rona Cohen Falls [orf & kpdai], Dr. Rivka Alkoshi [rhythmusic, orf & kodai, special educaion teaching aspects,
Dr. Ilana Ivtsan [sasha argov analysis],
David Schwartz Paul [, Avital Gefen [musical education aspects in high school], Judith Salomon [musical education planings],
Dr. Sara Greenbaum [Bach analysis],
Dr. Rachel Galay [jewish kleyzmer music],
Dr. Ruth Litai Yacov [ Languages Diction],
Tali (Talila) Wiseman [choir conducting] , Marcelo and Dalit Raij [ensembles, music theory], Barak Tymianker [sound pruduction], Asaf Maimon [managing aspects of music careers and coaching], R' Dror moshe shaul [the structure of the soul and the hebrew letters According to Kabbalah], R' Nir mennusi [hasidut, kabbalah, pirke avot], R Evyatar banay, R amichay eyal [Gemara], R yuval bar nathan [hasidut]

All of these diverse influences have led Itamar to the tangle of musical research and to the inexhaustible depth of music and can be identified in his eclectic musical signature