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The Israeli harpsichordist and ealy keyborad instrumentalist, Jochewed Schwarz, is a graduate of the Rubin Academy of Music, Tel Aviv University. She studied piano with Edith Kraus and harpsichord with Boris Berman, and was awarded several scholarships by the America-Israel Cultural Foundation. . For her postgraduate studies in the 1980’s she went to she studied at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis (A school and research institute at the Music Academy of Basel, now part of the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland), assisted by a grant from the Swiss Government, and graduated with a Diploma in Early Music (Diplom für Alte Musik), having studied with Rolf Junghanns, Christiane Jaccottet and Emer Buckley. A few years later she had a short apprenticeship training at the atelier of Reinhard von Nagel in Paris and studied maintenance of historical keyboard instruments. She graduated with a LL.B from the law-faculty of the Bar-Ilan University in 1999 and became a lawyer. Today she is a PhD student at Haifa University, Israel.
A clavichord, harpsichord and pianoforte player, Jochewed Schwarz is active both in Israel and abroad as a soloist and as a chamber musician in various leading concert series. She has performed with such musicians as recorder player Conrad Steinmann, violinist Chiara Banchini, Baroque oboe player Katharina Arfken, keyboard player Sally Fortino and others. She has played concerts with the Israel Chamber Orchestra, Israel Kibbutz Orchestra, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Herzliya Chamber Orchestra and Ramat-Gan Chamber Orchestra.
Jochewed Schwarz frequently takes part in festivals such as the Tel Aviv Festival for Vocal Music, Tel Aviv Musica Da Camera Festival, International Vocal Music Festival, Acre, Abu-Gosh Vocal Music Festival, International Felicja Blumental Music Festival and "Musikkfestdagene I Trondheim" festival in Norway. In addition to early music, her repertoire includes modern music for the harpsichord as well as works especially written for her. In recent years she led two Early Music chamber music concerts series - "Sounds and Colors" and "Sounds & Words". The concerts were held at the Felicja Blumenthal Music Center in Tel Aviv, in Ma'alot-Tarshiha, western Galilee, and many other venues.
Jochewed Schwarz has recorded for the Israel Broadcast Authority Classical Music Radio Chanel (Kol Hamusuca - Voice of the Music). She has appeared on commercial recordings: various flute sonatas by Georg Philipp Telemann, played with flutist Yossi Arnheim, bassoon player Uzi Shalev and cellist Micha Haran (British label Meridian Recordings, which won the Distributors Association Prize in 1993). J.S. Bach's Organ Trio Sonatas (BWV 525-530), played on two harpsichords with Emer Buckley (2012). Her recent albums present François Couperin's collection Les Nations in two volumes, played on two harpsichords with Emer Buckley (British label Toccata Classics, released July 2014 and July 2016).
For fifteen years Jochewed Schwarz was a lecturer at the Buchman-Mehta Music School at the Tel-Aviv University (the former Rubin Academy of Music). She is often invited as a guest lecturer in Israel and abroad. She was granted the Israeli Artist Residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, France, for the year 2011. She was director of the Felicja Blumental Music Center and Library in Tel Aviv in the years 2014-2020. |
