Occupation(s) Musician Name Mark Eliyahu Instruments Kamancha, baghlama Genres Mizrahi music | Years active 1998 – present | |
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Music director The Ballad of the Weeping Spring Movies The Ballad of the Weeping Spring Similar People The Toure‑Raichel Collective, Tal Ben Ari, anna RF, Habil Aliyev, Yair Dalal | ||
Mark eliyahu journey
Mark Eliyahu (Hebrew: מארק אליהו; born 28 May 1982, Dagestan, Russian SSR) is an Israeli musician. He plays the kamancheh.
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Early life
Eliyahu was born in 1982 in Dagestan and emigrated to Israel with his parents in 1989. At age 16, he was inspired by Habil Aliyev's performance, a prominent kamancheh player, and moved to Baku, Azerbaijan to learn kamancheh under guidance of Adalat Vazirov.
Musical career
In 1999, Eliyahu participated in The Spirit of the East – a concert and album directed and composed by his father, Peretz Eliyahu, with the participation of the Azerbaijani mugham singers Alim Qasimov and his daughter Farghana Qasimova and other artists. On that year he also performed as a soloist with the Israel Chamber Orchestra of Ramat-Gan in an Israeli festival. In 2004, he recorded his first solo album Voices of Judea and performed with his ensemble throughout Europe and Israel.
