Shosh (Shoshana) Riseman (or Raizman, ; born 10 April 1948) is an Israeli music educator, stage director and composer.
Biography Riseman was born at 1948 in a refugee camp in Cyprus, after her parents, Holocaust survivors, had been deported from Israel by the British authorities.
She graduated from the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music in 1970. She studied composition and orchestration with Noam Sheriff, Leon Schidlowsky and Yosef Dorfman at Tel Aviv University in Israel, with Hans Heimler, at Guilford University in England, and Ralph Shapy, Chicago University in the USA. She also studied electroacoustic music with Sanday and voice with Mira Zakai and Hanna Hacohen at Tel Aviv University.
Reisman is highly regarded for her extensive work composing music for dozens of theatre productions across Israel's major stages. Her compositional work spans nearly every genre, from original plays and Israeli drama to classical and modern international works.
She teaches theater arts at Tel Aviv University.
Honors and awards 1969 - America-Israel Cultural Foundation scholarship 1986 - First prize for the music to "Hymn for David", Acco Festival of Alternative Israeli Theatre 1987 - Special prize, Acco Festival of Alternative Israeli Theatre 2001 - Nominee for Israeli Theatre Award
Works Riseman has composed music for about fifty plays. Selected works include:
1972 - The Good Soldier Svejk, operetta 1972 - Background music for the Media, KPM Records, London 1973 - The Childrens from Shchunat Chaim, for television 1976 - What a Lovely Day, CBS Records 1983 - 9 Haiku Songs 1987 - Avishai Milshtein, Then is Death 1989 - Euripides - Iphigenia at Aulis, Seminar Hakibutzim, The Kibutz 1990 - Sam Shepard, Love/Death, Theatronetto 1992 - The Toledo Girls, opera, Libretto: Joshua Sobol 1999 - Dylan Thomas, Under Milk Wood 2001 - Oscar Wild, The Rose and the Nightingale, opera, Libretto: Moshe Prives Everything is Here, musical
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