Composer
Bavat Marom has studied composition with Prof. Chaya Czernowin, Prof. Abel Ehrlich and Prof. Ruben Seroussi in her native Israel. In 2019, her composition “Orpheus” for voice, frame drum and piano won the Vox Feminae competition in Israel. In 2019 and 2021 she was invited to perform her Yiddish poetry compositions in festivals in Zürich (Switzerland), Düsseldorf and Köln (Germany). Her Yiddish songs were also performed by Nour Darwish and Nizar Elkhater at the Israel Music Fest 2022, as part of a recital that was recorded and broadcast by the Israeli National Radio Corporation, “Kan”. Bavat has recently recorded her Yiddish songs with pianist Eyal Bat for a new album by “The Geula Project”, to be released in 2024.
Compositions list:
2021
Eve Sleeps her Last Night in Heaven, text in Hebrew (translated from the Finnish text by Eeva Kilpi): Rami Saari (for voice and piano)
Five Limericks, various texts in English (for voice and piano)
Alexander (Thoughts About Reality), text in German and Hebrew: Paul Celan / Bavat Marom (for voice and piano)
Herbsttag, text in German: Rainer Maria Rilke (for voice and piano)
2020
What Do You Want, Mary?, text in Yiddish: Anna Margolin (for voice and piano)
Mary’s Prayer, text in Yiddish: Anna Margolin (for voice and piano)
At Her Last Birthday, text in Hebrew: Sarai Shavit (for voice and piano)
2019
Song for Lyle (for contrabass and piano)
Ohdake, syksyn viimeinen kukija, text in Finnish: Eeva Kilpi (the third song in the song cycle “Butterflies”) (for voice and piano)
At the Solar Plexus, text in Hebrew: Bavat Marom (the second song in the song cycle “Butterflies”) (for voice and piano)
Ejemplo, text in Spanish: Octavio Paz (the first song in the song cycle “Butterflies”) (for voice and piano)
2018
Winter, text in Yiddish: Mani Leib (for voice and piano)
Orpheus, text in German: Rainer Maria Rilke (for voice, frame drum and piano)
To King Solomon Comes the Lovely Shulamit, text in Yiddish: Kadia Molodowsky (for voice and piano)
The Song About a Silly Hasid and Other Lunatics, text in Yiddish: Reuben Eisland (for voice and piano)
2017
I Was a Butterfly, text in Hebrew: Zelda (for voice and piano
I Walked Past the Girl at the Door, text in Hebrew: Nurit Zarchi (for voice and piano)
Just a Bit of Shaking, text in Hebrew: Nurit Zarchi (for voice and piano)
1989
Psalms 119, text in Hebrew: from the book of Psalms (for voice and violoncello)
1976
Transformation (score for a puppet theater show)
1974
I Am Just a Simple Man, text in Hebrew: Bavat Marom (for voice and piano)
Performances of compositions:
2022
“3 Yiddish Songs” (Nour Darwish – soprano, Nizar Elkhater – piano) at the Israeli Music Fest 2022, Israel
2021
“Winter, “What Do you Want, Mary?“, “Mary’s Prayer“, “To King Solomon Comes the Lovely Shulamit” (Bavat Marom – mezzo-soprano, Eyal Bat – piano), as part of an online concert at the Gesher Lamassoret Festival, Cologne, Germany
2019
“Orpheus” (Eitan Mechtinger – baritone and frame drum, Rodica Heiman Talpaz – piano) – winner of the Vox Feminae “Yotzrot Mikan” Women Composers Competition 2019, as part of a recital of new works by women composers at the Clairmont Hall, the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
“Winter” and “To King Solomon Comes the Lovely Shulamit” (Bavat Marom – mezzo-soprano, Eyal Bat – piano), as part of the concert “Zwischentöne”: at the “Omanut” Yiddish Culture Festival in Zürich, Switzerland; at the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany; at the Stadtgarten Köln, Cologne, Germany; at the Anglican Church Ramla, Ramla, Israel