Mark Eliyahu in Duisburg

Mark Eliyahu is an Israeli kamancheh player and composer, born in 1982 in Dagestan and raised in Israel after his family moved there. His instrumental music draws on Persian and Caucasian traditions, and he is known for pieces including “Journey,” “Endless” and “Tribe”; his recorded work includes Voices of Judea. He has performed repeatedly in Istanbul and has taken his repertoire to concert halls and festivals elsewhere in Europe and Israel. His concerts center on the kamancheh within an ensemble of percussion, keyboards and electronic textures; composer and tar player Piris Eliyahu has also joined him onstage.