Noam Wiesenberg

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Noam Wiesenberg (* around 1987 in Tel Aviv ) is an Israeli jazz musician ( double bass , arrangement , composition ) of modern jazz .

Live and act

Wiesenberg, who comes from Tel Aviv, was born into a musical family. He began taking cello lessons at the age of 8 before switching to the double bass at the age of 20. First he worked in the Israeli jazz scene; as a cellist he played with Orphaned Land on their album Mabool . He has also written arrangements for Israeli symphony orchestras such as the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, Haifa Symphony Orchestra and Israel Symphony Orchestra Rishon-LeZion. Between 1998 and 2008 he was a fellow of the America Israel Cultural Foundation . After taking 2nd place as Israeli Jazz Musician of the Year , he took part in the 2008 annual meeting of the International Association of Schools of Jazz in Riga. In August 2008 he left Tel Aviv. After graduating with honors ( magna cum laude ) in jazz performance in May 2010 at Berklee College of Music , he moved to New York.

In the local music scene, Wiesenberg has since worked with musicians such as Ari Hoenig , Billy Hart , Francisco Mela , Gilad Hekselman , Mike Moreno , Seamus Blake , Shai Maestro , Uri Caine , Will Vingson and Matisyahu. He also toured in Africa, India and Europe; He has performed at festivals such as the Monterey Jazz Festival , venues such as the Kennedy Center , the Philadelphia Museum of Art , the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and Blue Note , Smalls , Le Poisson Rouge and Joe's Pub. Wiesenberg lives in Brooklyn, where he also teaches. In the field of jazz he was involved in four recording sessions between 2010 and 2017, most recently with the formation Kind Folk ( Why Not , with John Raymond , Alex LoRe , Colin Stranahan ). In 2018 he released the album Roads Diverge with his own compositions on the Brooklyn Jazz Underground label , recorded with Philip Dizack , Immanuel Wilkins , Shai Maestro and Kush Abadey as well as with Dayna Stephens as a guest musician. In the same year he toured Germany in his quintet (with Dizack, Ben van Gelder , Gadi Lehavi and Francesco Ciniglio).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Noam Wiesenberg Group. TheMu eV, December 3, 2018, accessed on August 13, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Kristian Selm: Orphaned Land: Mabool. Baby Blue Pages, May 10, 2006, accessed August 13, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Berklee World Jazz Nonet Performs in DC. May 19, 2010, accessed August 13, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Tom Lord The Jazz Discography (online, accessed August 9, 2019)
  5. ^ Noam Wiesenberg, bass. Smalls, August 1, 2019, accessed August 9, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Wiesenberg, Noam
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli jazz musician (double bass)
DATE OF BIRTH around 1987
PLACE OF BIRTH Tel Aviv