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. In 2025 Bavat released, with pianist Eyal Bat, The Geula Project 2, the second album of their Yiddish songs project (thegeulaproject.bandcamp.com), in which she sang her Yiddish compositions. The album was produced by her husband Ady Cohen.
Compositions list:
2023
לויתן (Livyatan) (soprano and piano), text in Hebrew: Odeya Rosanek. Dedicated to Noot Cohen
2021
אלכסנדר (Alexander / Thoughts About Reality), (voice and piano), text in Hebrew: Bavat Marom, including text in German: Paul Celan
אני תלויה באוויר (Ani Tluyah Ba’avir) (soprano and piano), text in Hebrew: Bavat Marom There Once Was a Girl in the Choir (soprano, alto, double-bass and piano), text: Anonymous limerick
?איך זה קרה לי (How Did It Happen to Me?) (soprano and piano), text in Hebrew: Bavat Marom, including text in Italian from Handel’s opera Giulio Cesare in Egitto: Nicola Francesco Haym, and text in Italian from Donizetti’s opera Lucia di Lammermoor: Salvatore Cammarano
חוה ישנה את לילה האחרון בגן עדן (Eve Sleeps her Last Night in Heaven) (voice and piano), text in Hebrew (translated from the original Finnish text by Eeva Kilpi): Rami Saari
Herbsttag (voice and piano), text in German: Rainer Maria Rilke
2020
?וואָס ווילסטו, מאַרי (What Do You Want, Marie?) (voice and piano), text in Yiddish: Anna Margolin
מאַריס תּפֿילה (Marie’s Prayer) (voice and piano), text in Yiddish: Anna Margolin
ביום ההולדת האחרון שלה (At Her Last Birthday) (voice and piano), text in Hebrew: Sarai Shavit
2019
Song for Lyle (for contrabass and piano)
במקלעת השמש (In the Solar Plexus) (voice and piano), text in Hebrew: Bavat Marom (The second song in the song cycle Buttierflies)
Ejemplo (Example) (voice and piano), text in Spanish: Octavio Paz (The first song in the song cycle Buttierflies)
2018
ווינטער (Winter) (voice and piano), text in Yiddish: Mani Leib
Orpheus (voice, frame drum and piano), text in German: Rainer Maria Rilke
צום מלך שלמה קומט די הערלעכע שולמית (To King Solomon Comes the Lovely Shulamit) (voice and piano), text in Yiddish: Kadya Molodowsky
דאָס ליד פֿוּן חסיד שוטה אוּן אַנדערע נאַראָנים (The Song About a Silly Hasid and Other Lunatics) (voice and piano), text in Yiddish: Reuben Eisland
2017
Ohdake syksyn viimeinen kukija (Thistle, The Last Flower of Autumn) (voice and piano), text in Finnish: Eeva Kilpi (The third song in the song cycle Buttierflies)
הייתי פרפר (I Was a Butterfly) (voice and piano), text in Hebrew: Zelda
עברתי על פני הנערה בדלת (I Passed by the Girl at the Door) (voice and piano), text in Hebrew: Nurit Zarchi
רק טיפת ערעור והאדמה נשמטת (Just a Drop of Doubt and the Ground Slips Away) (voice and piano). text in Hebrew: Nurit Zarchi
1989
Psalms 119 (voice and violoncello)
1976
משחק חצות (Midnight Game), (score for a puppet theater show)
1974
אני איש סתם פשוט (I Am Just a Simple Man) (voice and piano), text in Hebrew: Bavat Marom
אני עכשיו הולך אל קו האופק (I Am Now Going to the Horizon) (voice and piano), text: Bavat Marom
Performances of compositions:
2025
?איך זה קרה לי (How Did It Happen to Me?) at Studio Anette, Tel Aviv, with: Shira Patchornik – soprano, Hagai Yodan – piano
לויתן (Livyatan), at the scholarship winners concert of the Artists Solidarity Program Europe (ASoP), at the Klangtheater der Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien (mdw), Wien, with: Noot Cohen – soprano, David Mařatka – piano
2024
לויתן (Livyatan), at the finalists concert of the Paul Ben-Haim Competition 2024, at the Israel Conservatory of Music Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, with: Noot Cohen – soprano, Efrat Levy – piano
2022
3 Yiddish Songs, at the Israel Music Festival, at the Tikotin Museum, Haifa, with: Nour Darwish – soprano, Nizar Elkhater – piano
2021
?וואָס ווילסטו, מאַרי (What Do You Want, Marie?), מאַריס תּפֿילה (Marie’s Prayer), צום מלך שלמה קומט די הערלעכע שולמית (To King Solomon Comes the Lovely Shulamit), ווינטער (Winter) at the Gescher LaMasoret Festival, Köln, with: Bavat Marom – mezzo-soprano, Eyal Bat – piano
2019
Orpheus, Winner’s concert of the Vox Feminae Competition, at the Buchman-Mehta Academy of Music, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, with: Eithan Mechtinger – baritone, Rodika Heyman-Talpaz – piano
2018
צום מלך שלמה קומט די הערלעכע שולמית (To King Solomon Comes the Lovely Shulamit), ווינטער (Winter), at the Omanut Festival, Zürich, at the Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf, at the Stadtgarten, Köln, and at the Anglican Church, Ramla, with: Bavat Marom – mezzosoprano, Eyal Bat – piano