About me

Hello, my name is Tal Soker and I'm 15 years old. I'm playing the piano for 6 years, even though I'm quite young I study music at the "Open University of Israel". I have 9 credits so far, and for an academic degree I need 108 credits. I also study composition under the Israeli composer Prof. A. Shapira.

I study music theory and I want to learn composition, conduction and I'm also interested in preforming music. My favorite composers are:

F. Poulenc, M. Ravel, S. Prokofiev, B. Britten, S. Rachmaninov, O. Messiaen, A. Shapira, G. Holst, A. Berg, G. Mahler, J. S. Bach, B. Bartok, I. Stravinski, D. Shostakovich, C. Debussy, A. Honegger, G. F. Händel, F. Schubert, R. Wagner, J. Haydn, J. Brahms, F. Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, A. Webern, A. Schönberg, Michael Tippet, L. van Beethoven, F. Chopin, W. A. Mozart, ect...

I'm also very interested in modern classical music preforming, composing and cunducting. I usually go to the Israrl Philharmonic Orchestra (IPO) concerts in Tel-Aviv. My favorite cunductors and players are:

Zubin Mehta, Yefim Bronfman, Herbert von Karajan, Alfred Brendel, Valery Gergiev, Charles Dutoit, Pascal Rogé, Maxim Vengerov, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Pierre Boulez, Daniel Barenboim, Christoph von Dohnanyi, Kent Nagano and Ivo Pogorelich.

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Midi and Wave files

Here you can download or listen to the "Trios Mouvements Perpétuels" by Fransic Poulenc:

Francis Poulenc - [image] I.Assez modéré 5.78KB, II.Très Modéré 4.15KB, III.Alerte 14.3KB.

Or J. S. Bach's IV Invention in two voices: (Klik on the picture to see the J.S. Bach page)

Allegro, in D minor. 55.11KB

And a short part from the third movement from Symphony no. 1 in D major "Titan" by Gustav Mahler (in a ZIP file! If you don't have a Zip files extractor you can go to the winzip site.):

Gustav Mahler - [Image] Stürmisch bewegt, 759KB.

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Vienna Community Leaders and other links

One of my favorite sites is the Classical Net Home Page, you can find there information about composers and recordings (There is also a mailing list in it, the Moderated Classical Music List).

You should also check the Vienna Community Leaders' Page and Dave Starkovich's (Vienna Liaison) page.

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Tal Soker (talsoker@artaxia.com), July 1997, Israel.

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