The Jerusalem Music Centre’s singing program is designed to promote promising young singers at the beginning of their career. Each year, approximately 20 outstanding singers aged 14-20 from all over the country are accepted into the program. The program includes intensive day sessions throughout the year, weekends, a winter course, and a summer course in which program participants receive vocal training lessons, musical instruction (coaching/correpetition), movement lessons, chamber music, acting lessons, and stage presence, as well as participation in concerts. Students in the program learn to value the highest demands of professional singing and, throughout the year, meet for master classes with the best teachers and musicians from Israel and around the world. The program’s professional team includes the program director, Prof. Zvi Zemel, singers and vocal training teachers Anat Efrati and Efrat Ben-Nun, and movement instructor for singers Iris Goren. During the years that the program has been running, participants have met with singers and vocal training teachers Sharon Rostorf-Zamir, Marina Levitt, Larisa Tatuyev, Yael Levita, Edna Prochnik, Oded Reich and others. The program teaching staff also included opera director Shirit Lee Weiss, singer instructors Dr. Ido Ariel, Yuval Zoran, Efrat Levy, Shimrit Carmi and others. The program has also featured conductor Daniel Cohen, countertenor Andreas Scholl (Germany, Switzerland) and baritone Dietrich Henschel (Germany).
Participants in the program are invited to special encounters on behalf of the Israeli Opera to view rehearsals and meet with participants in opera productions, as well as to the general performances of all productions throughout the year.
