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
2023
Livyatan (Whale) for soprano and piano
Text (in Hebrew): Odeya Rosanek
Dedicated to Noot Cohen
2021
Alexander / Maẖshavot al metsiut (Alexander / Thoughts About Reality) for voice and piano
Text (in Hebrew): Bavat Marom
Text (in German): Paul Celan
Ani tluyah ba’avir (I’m Hanging in the Air) for soprano and piano
Text (in Hebrew): Bavat Marom
There Once Was a Girl in the Choir for soprano, alto, contrabass and piano
Text (in English): anonymous limerick
Eikh zeh karah li? (How Did It Happen to Me?) For soprano and piano
Text (in Hebrew): Bavat Marom
Text (in Italian) from Handel’s opera Giulio Cesare in Egitto: Nicola Francesco Haym
Text (in Italian) from Donizetti’s opera Lucia di Lammermoor: Salvatore Cammarano
Havah yeshenah et leylah ha’aẖaron began eden (Eve Sleeps her Last Night in Heaven) for voice and piano
Text (in Hebrew, translated from the original Finnish text by Eeva Kilpi): Rami Saari
Herbsttag (Autumn Day) for voice and piano
Text (in German): Rainer Maria Rilke
2020
Vos vilstu, Mari? (What Do You Want, Mary?) for voice and piano
Text (in Yiddish): Anna Margolin
Maris tfile (Mary’s Prayer) for voice and piano
Text (in Yiddish): Anna Margolin
Beyom hahuledet ha’aẖaron shelah (At Her Last Birthday) for voice and piano
Text (in Hebrew): Sarai Shavit
2019
Song for Lyle for contrabass and piano
Bemikla’at hashemesh (In the Solar Plexus) for voice and piano
Text (in Hebrew): Bavat Marom (The second song in the song cycle Butterflies)
Ejemplo (Example) for voice and piano
Text (in Spanish): Octavio Paz (The first song in the song cycle Butterflies)
2018
Vinter (Winter) for voice and piano
Text (in Yiddish): Mani Leib
Orpheus for voice, frame drum and piano
Text (in German): Rainer Maria Rilke
Tsum meylekh Shloyme kumt die herlekhe Shulamis (To King Solomon Comes the Lovely Shulamit) for voice and piano
Text (in Yiddish): Kadya Molodowsky
Dos lid fun ẖassid shoyteh un andere naronim (The Song About a Silly Hasid and Other Lunatics) for voice and piano
Text (in Yiddish): Reuben Eisland
2017
Ohdake syksyn viimeinen kukija (Thistle, The Last Flower of Autumn) for voice and piano
Text (in Finnish): Eeva Kilpi (The third song in the song cycle Butterflies)
Hayiti parpar (I Was a Butterfly) for voice and piano
Text (in Hebrew): Zelda
Avarti al pnei hana’arah badelet (I Passed by the Girl at the Door) for voice and piano
Text (in Hebrew): Nurit Zarchi
Rak tipat ir’ur ve’ha’adamah nishmetet (Just a Drop of Doubt and the Ground Slips Away) for voice and piano
Text (in Hebrew): Nurit Zarchi
1989
Psalms 119 for voice and violoncello
1976
Mis’ẖak ẖatsot (Midnight Game)
Score for a puppet theater show
1974
Ani ish stam pashut (I Am Just a Simple Man) for voice and piano
Text (in Hebrew): Bavat Marom
Ani akhshav holekh el kav ha’ofek (I Am Now Going to the Horizon) for voice and piano
Text (in Hebrew): Bavat Marom
Performances
2025
Eikh zeh karah li?
Shira Patchornik – soprano, Hagai Yodan – piano
Studio Anette, Tel Aviv, Israel
Livyatan
Noot Cohen – soprano, David Mařatka – piano
The scholarship winners concert of the Artists Solidarity Program Europe (ASoP) at the Klangtheater der Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien (mdw), Wien, Austria
2024
Livyatan
Noot Cohen – soprano, Efrat Levy – piano
The finalists concert of the Paul Ben-Haim Competition 2024 at the Israel Conservatory of Music Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
2022
3 Yiddish Songs
Nour Darwish – soprano, Nizar Elkhater – piano
The Israel Music Festival at the Tikotin Museum, Haifa, Israel
2021
Vos vilstu, Mari?, Maris tfile, Tsum meylekh Shloyme kumt die herlekhe Shulamis, Vinter
Bavat Marom – mezzo-soprano, Eyal Bat – piano
The Gescher LaMasoret Festival, Köln, Germany
2019
Orpheus
Eithan Mechtinger – baritone, Rodika Heyman-Talpaz – piano
Winner’s concert of the Vox Feminae Competition at the Buchman-Mehta Academy of Music, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
2018
Tsum meylekh Shloyme kumt die herlekhe Shulamis, Vinter
Bavat Marom – mezzo-soprano, Eyal Bat – piano
Omanut Festival, Zürich, Switzerland
Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
Stadtgarten Köln, Köln, Germany
Anglican Church, Ramla, Israel