One of a kind

By Barry Davis

December 13, 2017 19:32

“The first half of ‘Ehad’ is played on a good [well-tuned] piano. It’s sort of postromantic music – semi-Arab, semi-trippy, semi-classical, semi–Chopin, I don’t know what – sort of ambient; there’s

Internationally acclaimed conductor and pianist David Greilsammer will appear in the festival’s opening and closing concerts. (photo credit: JULIEN MIGNOT)

Ronen Shapira has got a bee in his bonnet. It’s been buzzing loudly for some time now, and it is one of the prime and primal driving forces behind his creative pursuit.

The 51-year-old pianist-composer is one of the acts lined up for this year’s Pianos Festival, which will take place at the Jerusalem Theater from December 20 to 23.