Shefi Yishai
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Shefi Yishai is an Israel
Israel
The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...

i musician, mostly active as composer and musical director for theater.

Shefi Wrote music to songs written by well-known Israeli poets - Nathan Zach
Nathan Zach
Nathan Zach is an Israeli poet.-Biography:Born in Berlin, Germany, to a German father and an Italian mother, Zach immigrated to what was then known as Palestine in 1936 and served in the IDF during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War....

, Yehuda Amichai
Yehuda Amichai
Yehuda Amichai was an Israeli poet. Amichai is considered by many, both in Israel and internationally, as Israel's greatest modern poet. He was also one of the first to write in colloquial Hebrew....

, Yona Wallach
Yona Wallach
-Writing career:She was proud of her bisexuality and stunned her readers with her daring expressions of sexuality and spirituality combined.Wallach also featured Jungian psychology in her work. Wallach also wrote lyrics for, and performed with, Israeli rock bands. Her book, Island Songs, was...

, Ronny Someck
Ronny Someck
Ronny Someck is an Israeli poet and author, whose works have been translated into many languages.-Biography:Someck was born in Baghdad and came to Israel as a young child. He studied Hebrew literature and philosophy at Tel Aviv University and drawing at the Avni Academy of Art...

. Released one solo album:"Love and Hate" and worked on albums by many other artists, including David Broza
David Broza
David Broza is a multi-platinum Israeli singer-songwriter and guitarist.-Personal life:The son of an Israeli–British businessman and a folk singer, Broza was born in Haifa, Israel. He was raised and educated in England and Spain, where he was schooled at Runnymede College, in Madrid...

 and Yehuda Poliker
Yehuda Poliker
Yehuda Poliker is an Israeli singer, songwriter, musician, and painter.-Early life:Poliker was born in Kiryat Haim, a suburb of Haifa, Israel to a Greek Jewish family. Poliker is the son of Holocaust survivors deported to Auschwitz from Salonika, Greece.-Music career:Poliker's music combines rock...

, as session musician and producer.On stage he played with Yehuda Poliker, Mami rock Opera and Ehud Banai.
These days Shefi is on a tour featuring the music of his 2 solo albums.

Albums

  • In 1986, he released an Album named "Under the Closet" which is based on poems for children by Anda Amir Pinkerfeld, with Shefi's music, performed by Yehudit Tamir, Moti Dichne , Ya'akov Banai and Shefi Yishai.
  • His first solo album, Love and Hate, http://www.shefi.com/LH1.html was released on 1991. It contains a selection of poems by the greatest Israeli poets with music by Shefi Yishai and performed by him.
  • His Second solo album, "A Man Would Not Talk About It" was released onn 2010

Music for Theater

  • Sanjer, Closer, Cruel and Tender - Habima Theater
    Habima Theater
    The Habima Theatre , is the national theatre of Israel and one of the first Hebrew language theatres. It is located in Habima Square in the center of Tel Aviv.-History:...

  • Bracha - Beer Sheva Theater
  • The Last Striptease, Night Play - Tsavta Theater.
  • Schneider & Schuster - Basel
    Basel
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     Theater (Switzerland)
  • The Concert, The Rise and Fall of Little Voice
    The Rise and Fall of Little Voice
    The Rise and Fall of Little Voice is a 1992 play written by English dramatist Jim Cartwright. Sam Mendes directed stars Jane Horrocks and Alison Steadman at the Royal National Theatre before transferring to the Aldwych Theatre in London's West End....

    , Headlines News - Beit Lesin Theater
  • Revieue Lanoar / The Israeli Children theater
  • Nice Tony, Killer Joe, Blue Remembered Hills, Sky, Some Voices, Little Malcolm and his struggle against the eunuchs, Glengarry Glen Ross, Crime - The Han Theater
  • Brighton Beach Memoires - Haifa Theater
  • God, Crocodiles, Marriage Play, Moon of Alabama, Kol Nidrei - Herzliya Theater.
  • Perfect Days, The Last Summer - Beer Sheba Theater.
  • Victims of Duty - Hazira Theater.
  • Love and Anger - Herzliya Theater.
  • The last hour of Kol - Tmuna Theater.

Musical Director

  • The Jerusalem Sindrom - Haifa Theater.
  • Mami (Rock Opera)
    Mami (Rock Opera)
    Mami is an Israeli rock opera that was written by Hillel Mittelpunkt, Ehud Banai, and Yossi Mar Haim. Shefi Yishai and Yossi Elefant were responsible for musical production and arrangement....

    - Tsavta Theater and Habima Theater.

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