Music Center Tel
Aviv Municipality
Jaffa – Tel Aviv
(Army Band Alumni Ensemble)
Founder: Maestro Itzhak Graziani of blessed memory
Music Director & Conductor: Rafi Primo
Ensemble of high quality
Amateur Israeli Wind players, which served in the past as players of the
Israeli Army Band and some of them, are still active as reserve service
players.
The common interest of the musicians is a passionate love
for music and especially for wind music.
The Ensemble rehearses every week in the wonderful venue
of the Jaffa Music Center, which is part of the musical activities of the Tel
Aviv Municipality.
Rafi Primo – Music Director & Conductor
Head of the Kfar Saba Conservatory.
A board Member of WASBE. The President of the Israeli
Band Director’s Federation for seven years.
Regularly guest conducts in South and North America,
Germany, UK.
Taught Band music repertoire in the Army Music College,
and Conducting in the Canford Summer School in the UK.
Founded and directed the Israeli National Youth wind
Symphony.
Conductor in the Israeli Army Band during the years
1972-1979.
Repertoire
The Ensemble’s repertoire
include:
- Wind
Band original music
- Light
Classics and Transcriptions
- Musicals
and popular entertainment music
- Accompaniment
to a great Soprano singer
- Israeli
and world music