Salit Lahav

Musician, composer and arranger, plays the flute, saxophone and accordion.

Graduated the Jerusalem music Academy, "Rimon" school of music, “Thelma Yelin” high school of arts, and winner of the America–Israel cultural foundation scholarship. Gained a scholarship and attended a summer school at “Berklee College of music” in the U.S.A.

After winning the first prize in the Rimon "Jazz player" competition, Lahav was invited to the IASJ meeting in Finland, managed by one of the most appreciated saxophone players in the jazz scene – Dave Liebman. At the end of that week, Lahav was chosen to participate in the "European Youth Orchestra" who performed all over Europe the following summer.

Lahav has played with great Israeli artists such as David Broza, Gali Atary, Keren Peles, Dany Robas, Miri Mesika and many More.

 

In 2004 Lahav started focusing on latin styles of music, with variety of ensembles in Israel, Europe and Brazil. She created the first Choro group in Israel called "Chorico", who performed in big festivals including “The Red Sea Jazz Festival in Eilat” and “The Spring Jazz Festival in Shuni” Lahav has played with a variety of Brazilian artists such as Nazare Pereira, Maria de Barros, Yamandu Costa, Danilo Brito, Mariene de Castro, Guinga, Ana Costa the Colombian harp player Edmar Castaneda and many more.

In 2014 Lahav Established a Israeli Choro clube called "Clube do Choro de Israel".

Among Lahav's current projects are the Israeli choro ensemble – "Chorole" and the duo Salit Lahav & Marcelo Nami Duo.

Lahav Released 3 albums: Chorico – life at the 21st century, Chorole and Flower Shop.

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Marcelo Nami

‘Marcelo Nami, to me, is simply phenomenal. I’d even say that he’s unbelievable’, declares Samba Maestro Alceu Maia. ‘Yes’, he continues, ‘that was the impression I got when I first heard him play: incredible. Music flows in his soul with the tenderness of angels strumming their lyres. His songs show sublime inspiration and are technically perfect. I’ll say - and there’s no doubt about it - that he’s the definitive musician and one of the best in the world’.

Born in a small town in the Paraíba Valley, south of Rio de Janeiro, Brazilian composer and guitarist Marcelo Nami, who now lives in Israel, started to delight audiences performing Bach, Ernesto Nazareth and Villa-Lobos at the tender age of 7. Over thirty-five years, many round-the-world concerts and three successful albums later, Nami’s musical freshness and originality are at full steam. Tracks such as ‘After Carnival’ (from his first album, Wind Toy, recorded in Brazil in 2011), ‘Into Heaven’ and ‘Liberdade’ (from the second one, solo-guitar Back Again, Israel, 2014) or the poignant ‘Eilat’ (third album, New Day, Brazil-Israel-Venezuela, 2018) render concertgoers really touched.

Marcelo Nami has performed around the world and played both live and at studios with Brazilian and international stars like Jaques Morelenbaum, Gabriel Grossi, David Broza, Alon Oleartchik and Yoni Rechter, and he has also taken part in many festivals such as Eilat’s Red Sea Jazz, Acre, Tel Aviv’s Spring Jazz, Barquisimeto and San Louis Jazz. A teacher at renowned Rimon Music School, Marcelo Nami is currently preparing his fourth album.

Another master, the great Venezuelan cuatrista Jorge Glem, says: ‘When I met Marcelo, I realized right away that, besides being a great musician, he's also somebody who shines his light with his notes and his mastery. He's the perfect combination of skill and soul.’