As a concert singer, she sang with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Santa Cecilia Orchestra, Rome, Orchestra of Maggio Musicale Fiorentino (Florence, Italy), Greece Chamber Orchestra, and Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra. An extraordinarily sensitive interpreter of different styles and periods, she performs concert, oratorio and operatic repertoire ranging from early to contemporary music.Īs a mezzo-soprano soloist, Bracha Kol has worked with some of the world's leading conductors, including Harry Bicket, Leon Botstein, Robert Canetti, Philippe Entremont, Dan Ettinger, Asher Fisch, Gábor Hollerung, Nir Kabaretti, Jiri Kout, Nicholas Kraemer, Hermann Max, Zubin Mehta, Paul Nadler, Mendi Rodan, Peter Schreier, David Sebba, Gil Shohat, Saulius Sondeckis, Christoph Spering, Stanley Sperber, David Stern, Yaron Traub, Jonathan Webb, and Alberto Zedda, and and with stage directors such as David Alden, Jean Claude Auvray, Jakob Peters-Messer, Omri Nitzan, Emilio Sagi, Carlos Saura among others. She has appeared in numerous recitals in the USA and in Europe and is most frequently heard in Israel. As one of the leading singers in her country, she regularly performs opera, lied and oratorio. She was teaching at the Tel-Aviv Rubin Academy of music (both recorder and singing) for 5 years.īracha Kol has earned the praise of critics and audiences alike for the beauty of her voice, unique timbre, musicianship and the depth of her interpretations and brilliant acting. She and later in Paris and Milan with the opera singers coach, Robert Kettelson. In 2000, she received the IVAI scholarships to study in New York with the renowned singer and teacher Mignon Dunn, and in 1992 she was awarded the America-Israel Cultural Foundation Scholarship. She holds an artist degree with distinction, in singing, from the Tel-Aviv Academy. She travelled to Holland to study with Marion Verbruggen at the Utrecht Conservatory, where she graduated her Artist degree with honours in recorded playing, at the age of 17. The Israeli mezzo-soprano (and recorder player), Bracha Kol, began her musical career as a child prodigy playing the recorder, performing with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Maestro Zubin Mehta at the age of 13.

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