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 Education
Discography: Leader
Film Work
Discography: Sidemane
Scores for Dance
Commissions
Grants
& Fellowships
Residencies
Field Recordings
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| 2004 |
Private study of Judeo-Andalusian song
with R. Khaim Levi, Jerusalem |
| 200 -03 |
Private composition lessons with Fred Frith,
Mills College |
| 1998 |
BA in Music, BA in History, University of
California at Berkeley |
| 1994 |
Formal training with sozanda Muna Nissimova,
Bukhara |
| 1992 |
Pair learning at Pardes Institute of Jewish
Studies, Jerusalem |
| 2005 |
Punch, as Charming
Hostess. Recommended Records |
| 2004 |
Sarajevo Blues,
as Charming Hostess. Tzadik, Radical Jewish Culture |
| 2004 |
Thick, with Red
Pocket. Tzadik, Oracle Women’s Series |
| 2002 |
Trilectic, as
Charming Hostess. Tzadik, Radical Jewish Culture |
| 1998 |
Eat, as Charming
Hostess. Vaccination Records |
These albums all build on the sounds of the
body and how they make their homes in the Jewish and African diasporas.
All five contain ambitious settings for voice, and all are deeply committed
to text and traditional music.
| 2005 |
on score of States of Unbelonging,
by Lynne Sachs |
| 2003 |
Starface —
Short film based on an Isaac Babel screenplay.
Adapted script, directed, scored. |
2002 -
present |
The Radical Film Project
New scores for silents with political content. Composed w/Devin Hoff. |
| 1996 |
on score of Story of Lillith,
by Lynne Sachs |
| 1995 |
on score of Bad Jew
by Eliza Engelberg |
| 2005 |
Abraham’s Garden
with Israeli and Palestinian Musicians for Peace |
| 2005 |
Admiral Ted Brinkleys…with
Graham Connah’s Sour Note Seven |
| 2003 |
Voices in the Wilderness —
A Tribute to Masada |
| 2003 |
Great Jewish Composers
— Sasha Argov |
| 2002 |
For the Love of Wayne
with Graham Connah’s Sour Note Seven |
| 2001 |
Jettison Slinky
with Graham Connah’s Sour Note Seven |
| 1999 |
Gurney to the Lincoln Center
of Your Mind with Graham Connah’s Sour Note Seven |
| 2004 |
The Grim Arithmetic of Water,
choreographer Jo Kreiter |
| 2003 |
Thirst, choreographer
Jo Kreiter |
| 1998 |
The Body Project,
with Charming Hostess, choreographer Jo Kreiter |
| 1997 |
Sparrow’s End,
with Charming Hostess, choreographer Jo Kreiter |
| 1995 |
The Traveller,
with Charming Hostess, choreographer Stephanie Maher |
| 2006 |
Harmonices Mundi,
an opera commissioned by the Sloan Foundation |
| 2005 |
Red Rosa, a song
cycle commissioned by the Goethe Institut SF |
| 2006 |
Trust for Mutual Understanding grant for
collaboration with poets in ex-Yugoslavia |
| 2006 |
Puffin Foundation grant for Red Rosa |
| 2005 |
Katzenstein Fellow — Artist-In-Residence
at MIT — collaboration with experimental architects and engineers |
| 2003 |
Rockefeller Foundation Multi-Arts Production
Fund Grant for The Grim Arithmetic of Water, with choreographer Jo
Kreiter |
| 2004 |
Goldman Fund Tikea Fellow — project-based
radical film and music work with youth |
| 2001 |
Weisz Fellow for field research and recording
among Jewish women in the Gondar region of Ethiopia |
| 2007 |
Headlands Center for the Arts residency |
| 2006 |
Djerassi residency |
| 2006 |
CalArts/Alpert Award Ucross residency |
Julia Eisenberg is a common mispelling
of Jewlia Eisenberg, the composer of Charming Hostess.
| 1990, 1996 |
Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary |
| 1991 |
Greece, Turkey |
| 1991 |
Israel, Egypt, Jordan |
| 1994 |
Uzbekistan, Tajikistan |
| 1998 |
Italy, Tunisia |
| 2001 |
Mali, Ethiopia, Zanzibar |
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