Tom Ben Ishai - Soprano

Tom is supported by the Ronen Foundation, Ely Leon Foundaion, America – Israel Cultural Foundation Scholarship, and the Haifa culture Fund scholarship. In March 2016, Tom took third prize at the Paul Ben Haim Competition. Tom took third prize at the Art Song Competition in Memory of Ada Brodsky, held at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance in January 2015 and February 2016. She also was a finalist of the IMVAI TLV international program.

Lately she participated in the role of Sirena in the opera “La Liberzione di Ruggiero dall’Isola D’Alcina” by Caccini, Gasparo in the opera “The Pirates” by Storace, Serpetta in the opera “La Finta Giardiniera” by Mozart, Constance in the opera “Dialogues des Carmelites” by Poulenc, the role of Rose in the opera “la jolie parfumeuse” by Offenbach, the role of Tito in the opera “Guilio Sabino” by Sarti and more

Her concert repertoire includes a lot of contemporary music, such as Pierrot Lunaire by Schonberg (Meitar ensemle for contemporary music), Tema by Helmut Lacetnmann (The Israeli Contemporary Players), “……” by Haas (Cecilia Ensemble) and others. Tom is a part of a running production of “Itamar Pogesh Arnav”, a contemporary israeli opera composed by Yoni Rechter. Furthermore, she sang the solo parts of J.S. and C.F.E Bach Magnifiact (Jerusalem Baroque Orechestra), Mozart Messe in C minor (Tivon Choir), V. Williams Messe (the Israeli Vocal Ensemble) and more.

Tom Ben Ishai is currently a member of the Meitar Opera Studio at the Israeli opera house, Tel Aviv, as a singer. Also, she is a member of Cecilia Ensemble and the New Israeli Vocal Ensemble. She is also a graduate of “Tedarim” project for contemporary music.