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Rogale & Quiche – an original musical play for children with the Polyphony Galilee Chamber Orchestra

Polyphony's founder and CEO, Nabeel Aboud Ashkar, as a panelist on the Art and Culture Forum at the JFN annual conference, March 2024

Polyphony Ensemble performs at Carnegie Hall with the National Youth Orchestra-USA, August 5th 2024

Polyphony featured at the ACC-GTM Convention held in Israel

Somewhere - a message of peace from the Galilee Chamber Orchestra & the Israeli Opera

Polyphony - a special concert for evacuees, Nazareth, November 26, 2023

The Galilee Chamber Orchestra at the Eilat Chamber Music Festival with conductor Saleem Aboud Ashkar and French cellist Edgar Moreau

Seasons – a world premiere of an original co production with the Polyphony Ensemble, Al-Amal and Staatsballett Berlin dancers

The Polyphony Conservatory in Nazareth, November 2023

The Polyphony Quartet with Anastasia Klevan & Deema Azar – U.S tour, February 2023

A Message from Polyphony

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The 5th Liturgical Festival in Nazareth

MUSIC HAS THE POWER <br />TO BRING PEOPLE TOGETHER

MUSIC HAS THE POWER
TO BRING PEOPLE TOGETHER

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Nabeel Aboud Ashkar, Polyphony Education’s Co-Founder and Executive Director, receives the 2022 Shulamit Aloni Life Achievement Award

Galilee Chamber Orchestra’s Carnegie Hall Debut and North America Tour
March 18-21, 2022

OUR MISSION: Polyphony aims to bridge the divide between Arab and Jewish communities in Israel through music and to serve as a worldwide model for cooperation based on cultural exchange, dialogue and partnership.

Reaching New Heights Together

Polyphony featured at the ACC-GTM Convention held in Israel

A Galilee Chamber Orchestra special concert. A collaboration with a delegation of 60+ cantors and synagogue musicians, representing the American Conference of Cantors-Guild of Temple Musicians.

A New York Times article about young Polyphony students who joined musicians from all over the world in Carnegie Hall WOW! festival

Nabeel Abboud Ashkar, Polyphony’s founder and CEO, speaks to the NJJN about music, education, politics and the Polyphony Ensemble American tour

The Polyphony Young Trio – Daniel Smoilov, Yaaly Mamerud and Genwa Khazin – playing in front of a full house audience at the Santa Anna ancient churchyard in old Zipori – June 23rd 2024
Photos by M.A. Emek Izrael

Polyphony – a special concert for evacuees, Nazareth, November 26, 2023

SOMEWHERE, אי שם, في مكانٍ ما
60 Jewish and Arab singers and musicians joined together on the Israeli Opera’s stage to record a special rendition of Somewhere, the powerful song written by Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim for West Side Story. United on one stage, they convey a message of hope for a better future for all of us in Israel. A special project of the Israeli Opera, the Galilee Chamber Orchestra (by Polyphony Education), the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance and the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music and Tel Aviv University.

Music and Society Seminar alumni workshop in Nazareth, November 11th, 2023

The Polyphony Conservatory in Nazareth, November 2023

Together through music – Crisantemi Quartet plays at the Jerusalem’s YMCA

A Message from Polyphony

Polyphony Conservatory alumnis Nabeel Hayek (piano) & Ghenwa Khazin (cello) at the Kultursommer 2023 festival in Hannover, Germany

The Galilee Chamber Orchestra
Carnegie Hall debut with violinist Joshua Bell,
at the North American tour 2022

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Konzerthaus Berlin,
Young Euro Classic 2019:
Galilee Chamber Orchestra (Israel-Palästina),
Dirigent und Klavier: Saleem Ashkar,
Pate des Abends: Stefan Raue,
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The Galilee Chamber Orchestra
debuted in Europe this summer
with four concerts in Germany.

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A Jerusalem Post interview with Faris Badarni,
a Polyphony scholar, about international
Polyphony production – Seasons, 2023

Polyphony Alumni Yamen Saadi
wins Ilona Kornhauser Prize for Violin
at Israel’s 2020 Aviv Competition.