<img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-8328" src="http://ipoold.local/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/ליאור-איתן.jpg" alt="" width="6016" height="4016" />Lior Eitan, one of the most senior Israeli flutists, has been active for many years as a soloist and chamber musician. In addition to the flute, he also masters the piccolo, alto and bass flutes and often combines all four instruments in his performances.
Born in Israel in 1963, Lior Eitan  graduated cum laude from the Rubin Academy of  Music in Tel Aviv , where he studied with Uri Shoham. From 1985 to 1988 he served as Principal Flute of the Israel Sinfonietta Beer Sheva. Since 1988, he has been Principal Piccolo of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra.
Lior Eitan dedicates a special attention to the performance of Israeli music. Over fifty Israeli works were written, dedicated and premiered by him so far. In addition, he regularly arranges masterpieces by classical composers for wind instruments. Some of these arrangements were published by Svitzer Edition, Denmark.
In 1995 Lior recorded his first CD, featuring music arranged for flute and harp. Since then he has recorded seven more CD’s for the Israel Music Institute, "Centaur", "Meridian" and "Romeo" labels.

Jonathan Hadas was born in Tel Aviv, 1986. Principle bass clarinet player of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra since 2010. He began playing the clarinet at the age of 11 with Mrs. Sarah Elbaz at the Ramat Gan Music Conservatory and the Israeli Music Conservatory in Tel Aviv, and later with Mr. Richard Lesser.

At the age of 12 he had already preformed as soloist accompanied by the Ramat Gan strings ensemble and a year later was sent as representative to a concert tour in Norway on behalf of the city. Jonathan has completed his Masters degree in the Jerusalem Academy for Music and Dance, under full scholarship granted by the Chase Fund in Yevgny Yehudin’s class and in the Karlsruhe Hochschule für Musik, Germany, in Prof. Wolfgang Meyer’s class under a special student exchange program.
In 2007 he finished his service in the IDF as an “outstanding musician”, and completed his studies for a B.Mus at the Buchman–Mehta School of Music, Tel Aviv University, first with Mr. Richard Lesser and later with Mr. Yevgeny Yehudin. He was a member of the Buchman–Mehta Symphonic Orchestra, under full scholarship, in which he appeared as Principle Clarinet in the UN General Assembly Hall in New York, in Tonhalle, Zurich and in Israel under the baton of maestro Zubin Mehta.
Jonathan is a Thelma-Yellin High School of Science and Arts graduate, played in the school symphonic orchestra as a principal clarinet and played with the orchestra in tours in Europe as well as soloist under the baton of Menahem Nevenhause. He has also appeared as soloist with the Holon Chamber Orchestra, the Israeli Stage Orchestra, the Israel Chamber Orchestra and the Israel Camerata Orchestra Jerusalem. In the summer of 2010 he took part in the Lucerne Festival academy as principle clarinet under maestro Pierre Boulez.
Jonathan attended master classes coached by Anthony Pay, Wolfgang Meyer, Sabine Meyer, Sharon Kam, Philip Cupper, Mitchell Lurie, Giora Feidman, Eli Even, Hakan Rosengren and others and collaborated with artists such as Eric–Maria Cotourier and Benni Sluchin from Ensemble Intercontemporain. He has participated in festivals and seminars all over the world such as Chigiana academy, Italy, Idyllwild, California and Kfar Blum festival in Israel.
Jonathan is a recipient of AICF scholarship since 2003, and a graduate of the "young musicians section" at the Jerusalem Music Center. In 2008 he has won the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music Wind Competition, and received a special prize at the AICF Spring Competitions for the best performance of an Israeli work.
Jonathan is a member of the Israel Contemporary Players. His playing has been featured in radio and television broadcasts in Israel, Romania, Boston and Paris.
He is one of the founders of the Meitar Ensemble and has been a member since its establishment.

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Oboist Dudu Carmel is a winner of the 1996 International Oboe Competition in Toulon, France and the 1990 François Shapira prize in Israel. He serves as principal oboist of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, and he is faculty member of the Winds Department at both the Jerusalem Academy of Music and the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music, Tel Aviv University.

As soloist he performed with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Zubin Mehta, with the Budapest Festival Orchestra under Ivan Fischer; with the Quebec Symphony Orchestra under Yoav Talmi, and with orchestras in Canada, Chile, Costa Rica, France and Poland. He gave recitals in prestigious concert halls, such as the Chamber Music hall of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, he has recorded for radio stations in Europe and Israel and participated in chamber music festivals in Israel, Germany, Switzerland and Brazil.

Together with Prof. Thomas Indermühle, founder of The Oboe Festival in Palma de Mallorca in Spain, Dudu Carmel has been giving yearly master-classes there in addition to master classes he gives around the globe. Between the years 1992-1997, he was the principal oboist of the New Israeli Opera Orchestra, and since 1998 he has been playing as a guest oboist with the Budapest Festival orchestra. He studied at the Rubin Academy of Music in Tel-Aviv and received his KA Diploma from the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe, Germany, as a student of Prof. Thomas Indermühle.

Dudu Carmel is a founding member of the Israel Woodwind Quintet. He recorded label CD’s for the Israel Music Center, Camerata, Meridian, Centaur Records and DUX.