Shiri Riseman is an Israeli composer, conducter and singer currently residing in Graz. Her main compositional interests include the exploration of the human voice and its implication on instrumental music, the connection between improvised music to written music and the vocal use of nonsense instead of text, or along with using text. Shiri Riseman’s works were performed by the Tonkunstler Orchestra (Austria), Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart, Divertimento Ensemble (Italy), Mivos Quartet (New-York), Trío Arbós (Spain),
Meitar Ensembel (Israel) The Israeli Chamber Project, Cecilia Ensemble, Modalius Ensemble (Israel) and more.
Shiri Riseman is the recipient of several prizes and awards, including the 1st prize of the Klon Award for emerging composers from the Israel Composers League, excellence grants from the America-Israel Cultural Foundation, Siday Fellowship for Musical Creativity by the Jerusalem Institute of contemporary music and Rabinovich grant. She was also a finalist in the Spring Competitions of the AICF.

Shiri is currently pursuing her master’s degree at the Kunstuniversität Graz with Klaus Lang and Franck Bedrossian. She did her bachelors in composition in the Jerusalem Academy for music and dance, where she studied with the composers Josef Bardanashvilli and Karel Volniansky. She has also attended the Centre for Middle Eastern Classical Music in Jerusalem where she specialized in Indian music with the singer Nurit Ofer.
Shiri Founded and conducted the Musrara Choir in Jerusalem. She was also a member of the collective choir “Great Gehenna Choir”.

Photo: Yael Ilan