The Keshet Eilon Music Center and Violin Mastercourse, founded in 1990 at Kibbutz Eilon in the Western Galilee, Israel, is devoted to nurturing and advancing gifted young violinists. The Center has acquired a prestigious reputation internationally. Its faculty is made up of well-known artists and senior violin masters from Israel and all parts of the world.

Keshet Eilon is under the patronage of Maestro Shlomo Mintz. Music director is Prof. Itzhak Rashkovsky of London’s Royal College of Music. Violin maker Amnon Weinstein initiates new music projects. Managing director and head of the Center is Gilad Sheba, a member of Kibbutz Eilon and the son of one of its founders.

The Keshet Eilon Music Center is home to these projects:

News Spring Competition for Israeli violinists Keshet Eilon alumni succeed in Spring Competition for Israeli violinists, conductors and pianists held in Tel Aviv, December 2007. Norway’s Ole Bull Prize Amnon Weinstein, Israeli violin maker, Director of New Projects at Keshet Eilon, and head of its Violin- and Bow-making Atelier, has been awarded Norway’s Ole Bull Prize for 2007. 1st Prize winners 2006-07 Keshet Eilon alumni continue to excel

Concert Series ”Our Barns are Filled with Grain” Evening of Song in the spirit of Shavu’ot

Spring Seminar March 27-29, 2008 Click for Details    Summer Course July 25 - August 13, 2008 Click for Details

Newsletter - Spring 2008

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