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Nori Jacoby Nori Jacoby specialises in world music and electronic-acoustic classical music. His compositions have been featured at festivals around the world, including the Sounds of Israel Festival at the Hamburg Elbphilharmonie, Lviv Klezfest, Singapore Art Festival, Chicago World Music Festival, Melbourne Festival, Krakow Dance Festival and the Israel Festival. Nori also has a special interest in experimental theater, and was featured in a multimedia project “Kings of Misery” at the Jerusalem Spoken Word Festival, where he combined his interests in neuroscience and contemporary music in portraying different characters based on the writings of Oliver Sacks. In 2009, Nori released a CD with his band Tafillalt on John Zorn's Radical Jewish Culture Label, Tzadik. Tafillalt have performed throughout Israel, the USA, Germany, United Kingdom, Hungary, and Ukraine. Learn about Jerusalem Dream, Nori's collaboration with overtone singer Wolfgang Saus. Watch a short clip about Nori's band, Tafillalt. Watch Nori's collaboration with Victoria Hanna and Tamir Muskat in 22 Letters, a Kabbalistic rap. Watch Nori's collaboration with Andre Hajdu in their NeurOpera, a musical dramatization of case studies by Oliver Sacks.
Selected Compositions
2009	NeurOpera, A Dramatization of Case Studies By Oliver Sacks with Andre Hajdu For 2 actors, wind quintet, pianist, and live electronics. Premiered at the 2009 Jerusalem Spoken Word Festival, Israel.
2008	Divorce For 2 violas and 2 computers. Premiered at the 2008 Sound of Word Festival, Jerusalem, Israel.
2007	An die Musik For string quartet. Premiered at the 2007 Israel Music Festival in Jerusalem, Israel.
2006	Jerusalem Dream For Mongolian throat singer, overtone singer, Middle-Eastern singer, string quartet, oud and men's chorus. Premiered at the 2006 Singapore Art Festival.
2006	Dream of the Night A mini-opera for three flutes, quanun, string quartet, men's chorus and soprano. Premiered at Haifa University, 2006.
2002	Symphonic Concerto For symphony orchestra. Premiered at the "Sounds From The Desert" Festival in Sde Boker,Israel.
2002	Lullaby For harpsichord, piano, string quintet, clarinet, bassoon and singer. Premiered at the Mishkenot-Sha'ananim Center in Jerusalem 2002, also broadcast live on radio.
1999	Kaprizma For string quintet, clarinet, percussion and guitar. Premiered at the Mishkenot-Sha'ananim Center in Jerusalem 2002, also broadcast live on radio.
1999	Strange Music for a mini ballet by choreographer Nima Jacoby. Featured at the 1999 Jewish Culture Festival in London, the 2000 DuOman Festival in Israel, and the 2001 World Dance Festival in Krakow.
Discography

Tafillalt (Tzadik, 2009)	Kolmus HaNefesh (JMC, 2009)	Live at the T.A. Museum (Kadima, 2006)	Scenes from an Ideal Marriage (Kadima, 2010)

J. C. Jones with Friends: Duos II (Kadima, 2005)	One Afternoon (Kadima, 2010)	Jerusalem Dream (2006)	J. C. Jones: ReComp (2008)
Reviews
"Jacoby sounds for all the world like Gidon Kremer doing Berg." Jason Bivens, Cadence Magazine, 2011
"Adventurous arrangements breaking new ground in Jewish Music." John Zorn, Tzadik, 2009
"Jacoby manages to weave all these elements into a complex and moving composition that successfully blends seemingly alien components into a single, cohesive musical construct... Outstanding." Eyal HaReuveni, All About Jazz, 2006
"Navigates the multi-cultural sound spectrum of modern 21^st-century Israel and presents a unique interpretation of various traditional and modern Jewish materials." Lloyd Masel, Yedioth Acharonot Newspaper, 2009