Dr. Ron Attar
Address: 18D Dubnov st. Tel-Aviv , 64368, Israel
Tl: 972-3-6956148
Mobile: 050-9455561
Curriculum Vitae
Personal Details:
Date of Birth: 02-06-1962
Place of Birth: Rechovot, Israel
Marital Status: Married + 2 children
Academic Education and Awards:
June 2007-Ph.D in Music-Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel
Subject of Dissertation: "Analysis of Béla Bartók's Performances to Selected Compositions".
Supervisor: Prof. Judit Frigyesi
2008- Received research grant and award from "Edison Fellowship" (British Library) for the years 2008-9
2003- Received scholarship of excellence from Bar-Ilan University
1998-1999- Senior music teaching-Levinsky College of Education, Tel-Aviv
1994-1998- Masters Degree in music-Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel
Subject of Dissertation: "Rhythmical Aspects in the Liturgy of the Ethiopian Jewish"
Supervisors: Prof. Simcha Arom (CNRS-PARIS) and Prof. Edwin Seroussi (Bar-Ilan University).
1986-1989-B.A in Music-Tel-Aviv University
1984-1985-Performance Studies-"Rubin" Academy of Music, Jerusalem
Membership of professional and learned societies
Society for the Study of Ethiopian Jewry
Work Experience
2009-A series of lectures in the subject of the music of the Ethiopian Jews in "Achva" Academic College
1991-Present-Teaching and preparation for the matriculation exams (in music), "Sharet" High School, Holon, and "Alef" Arts High School, Tel-Aviv
1987-1992-Music teaching at "Ron Vardi Centre" for gifted children, Rishon le Zion, Israel
2000-2001-teaching assistant at Bar-Ilan University
Conferences
“Bartók's 1929 recording of Allegro Barbaro,” Tel Aviv, Symposium at the Open University, December 2008.
“Children and Childhood Songs of the Ethiopian Jewish Community,” Ethiopian Jewry: Identity, Heritage, History and society, an International Symposium, Tel-Aviv, Dahan Centre for Culture, Society and Education in the Sephardic Heritage of Bar Ilan University, May 2008.
“The Performance Practice in Beta Israel Prayers-a Service for the New Moon (ya-Caraqâ Ba'âl),” Florence, Italy, The Fifth International Conference of the Society for the Study of Ethiopian Jews, October 2007.
“Béla Bartók 1928 and 1936 Recordings of Pieces no. 7-15 out of 15 Hungarian Peasant Folksongs-From Collection of Arrangements into an Integrated Composition,” Musicology and Recording, Royal Holloway-University of London, The Research Centre for the History and Analysis of Recorded Music and the Royal Musical Association International Conference, September 2007.
“Analysis of Béla Bartók's Performances to Selected Compositions,” The Israeli Musicology Society Annual Conference, Levinsky College of Education, Tel-Aviv, June 2007.
“Form Created by Performance: Bartók's Recording of his Improvisations op. 20,” Bartók's Orbit-International Conference, Budapest, Bartók Archive of Hungarian Academy of Sciences, March 2006.
"J. Faitlovitch and Beta Israel Prayers-the Musical Aspect," Jack Faitlovitch and the Ethiopian Jews: the Hundred Year's Anniversary, Tel Aviv University, Ben- Zevi Institute, and the French Centre for Research (CNRS), March 2004.
“The liturgy of the Ethiopian Jews,” Tel- Aviv, Bar-Ilan University, Renanot Institute for Jewish music Annual Conference, December 2004.
“Rhythmical Aspects in the Liturgy of the Ethiopian Jews,” Milan, Italy, The Third International Conference of the Society for the Study of Ethiopian Jews, October 1998.
List of Publications
Atar, Ron. "Changes in the Prayer Tradition of the Ethiopian Jews." Oznaim Lemusica 7 (2002): 8-10 (in Hebrew).
Atar, Ron. "The Function of Musical Instruments in the Liturgy of the Ethiopian Jews." In Jews of Ethiopia-The Birth of an Elite. ed. T. Parfitt and E. Trevisan Semi, (Abingdon: Routledge, 2005): 155-172.
Atar, Ron. "Form Created by Performance: Bartók's Recording of his Improvisations op. 20." Studia Musicologica 48/1-2, (2007): 103-112.
Atar, Ron. in " The Music of the Ethiopian Jews." In Ethiopia Vol. (Jewish Communities in the East in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries series). Ed. H. Salomon, (Jerusalem: Ben-Zevi Institute, 2008), 98,100 (in Hebrew).
Atar, Ron. "Béla Bartók's Recordings of 15 Hungarian Peasant Folksongs - From a Collection of Arrangements into Integrated Composition." Musicae Scientiae (on press).
Atar, Ron. "The Performance practice in Beta Israel Prayers – a Service for the New Moon (ya-Caraqâ Ba'âl): A Case Study." Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (on press).