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Ensemble Nuria
Unsilenced Stones
Recording Italy’s lost Jewish music — where it was sung.
Living Dialogue: Local Collaborations
In every city we visit, we bridge the past with the present by collaborating with magnificent local Italian musicians. Just as the Jewish communities of the Renaissance were in constant dialogue with their surroundings, we embrace modern collaboration to bring these ancient sounds into today’s cultural landscape.
We LOVE collaboartions!!!
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Collaborations so far :
Massimo Lonardi (Lute - Venice)
Gino Zambelli (Fisarmonica - Padova)
Miriam Camerini (Voice - Mantova)
Coro da Camera Orlandi di Lasso (Choir - Mantova)
Enrico Fink (Voice - Florence)
Michele Piccione (Percussion - Sicilia)
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Soundscapes for Exhibitions & Film Soundtracks
We bring history to life through sound. Ensemble Nuria creates immersive soundscapes and soundtracks for international exhibitions, museums, and documentary films. By blending archival melodies with a fresh, contemporary touch, we turn visual spaces and stories into unforgettable audio journeys.
Intentional Beauty
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Albert and Ethel Herzstein Gallery for Judaica
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Hidden Voices of Jerusalem
The project “Hidden Voices from Jerusalem” is a pioneering initiative that creates musical encounters across faiths. Each encounter brings together the Ensemble Nuria (an international new ensemble that emphasizes interfaith and intercultural dialogue through music), an audience, and invited performing musicians: monks, paytanim (liturgical poets), cantors, and instrumentalists from diverse cultural backgrounds.These guests come from a wide range of musical and cultural traditions. In some cases, this represents their first exposure to such a context, and therefore a meaningful departure from their familiar artistic and professional environments.
What unites all participants is that their creative work is rooted in Jerusalem and its surroundings, and that the diverse religious traditions of the city are reflected in their musical practice. Together, these encounters form a fascinating mosaic of the hidden sounds and voices of Jerusalem.
Ensemble Nuria is a new international and interfaith (Christian–Jewish) ensemble founded in Jerusalem in 2018 by Ayela Seidelman, who also serves as its artistic director. The ensemble is a modular formation composed of international specialists in the performance of early and sacred music, focusing on expressing the connections between people from different backgrounds, religions, and cultures.
Italian Jewish Piyyut Workshops
Vibrant encounters dedicated to the learning and singing of ancient Italian Jewish
piyyutim As part of this invaluable heritage project of revitalizing the nearly lost tradition of Italian
Jewish piyyutim, it is our goal that these workshops will represent a step towards enabling the rebirth of these ancient Italian Jewish melodies. The participants of the workshops gained the tools and knowledge to adopt the melodies as part of their own
personal, family and community traditions, thereby enabling the unforgettable music of lost Italian Jewish communities to thrive and resonate again.
Di Tsaytmashin -
Yiddish Baroque Music
A very special first recording: Yiddish music from the Baroque era!
“the Book of the Rejoicing Soul” is an ancient Ashkenazi songbook, written by Rabbi
Elkhanan Kirchen and published in the beginning of the 18th century in Bavaria. It
contains songs of morality for the Jewish home, describing in witty rhymes the customs
of Jewish holidays, the Jewish traditions and the joy of believing in God.
The music notation is sparse and diverse, spanning from pure Baroque polyphony to
spicy Jewish folk tunes.