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Ofer
Ganor is an accomplished jazz guitarist who has studied,
recorded and played with great jazz masters such as
Herbie
Hancock,
Ron
Carter, James Moody
and many others.
Born 1970
in Jerusalem,
Israel he began his musical studies with private teachers
Justin
London, Steve Peskoff and Jean Claude Jones.
He completed his B.M.
from Berklee
College of Music
while receiving numerous awards and scholarships including
the American
Israel Cultural Foundation Award, Stephen Hollander
Award, Guitar Department Award and
a Downbeat
Magazine
up and coming musicians feature.
He continued his
studies in a two year program at the prestigious Thelonious
Monk Institute studying under many famed jazz masters
such as Wynton
Marsalis, Clark Terry, Jackie Mclean, Jimmy Heath and
Jimmy Ponder.
As part of the program he has traveled to India to represent
the U.S. with his classmates along with Herbie
Hancock
and played in the King
of Thailand’s 60th anniversary
celebrations with Wayne
Shorter
and Herbie
Hancock.
While at the institute he also completed his M.M.
from the New
England Conservatory of Music
and received the Gunther
Schuller Award.
After
completing his studies he has moved to New
York
where he gained experience playing in many clubs and
concerts with musicians such as Dwayne
Eubanks, Peter Bernstein, Liz Diamond, Avi Leibovich
and many others. He has recorded with Ron
Carter
for his Building
Jazz Bass Lines
book with an all star rhythm section that included Mulgrew
Miller
on piano and Lewis
Nash
on Drums.
During that period he composed music for
theatrical productions of Tempest
and The
Golem
at Yale
University
as well as a film score for Caves
of the Mind.
He also played on the soundtrack for the feature film
Hugo
Pool composed
by Danilo
Perez.
In
2000
he returned to Israel
and has worked with many local artists and has spent
time teaching and passing on his knowledge and experience
to a younger generation of musicians. He has given master
classes
in Israel,
Cyprus and
France
and accompanied visiting jazz artists such as Jim
Rotondi and
Peter Bernstein.
Ofer
Ganor has recorded his debut album as a solo artist
Solo
Guitar
featuring his original compositions for guitar and has
two projects soon to be out. The first, a marvelous
performance of a duet with pianist Omri
Mor
at the 2006
Tel Aviv Jazz Festival soon
to be released, the other a quartet recording with Willie
Jones
III on drums, Aaron
Goldberg
on Piano and Yonatan
Levi on
bass.
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Ofer Ganor Quartet featuring Jimmy Cobb
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