Yitzhak Yedid - Niggunim: Music of the Jewish Soul

Step into a sound world that evokes memory, longing, and imagination.

Yitzhak Yedid’s solo piano performances draw listeners into an immersive world of textures, colours, and emotion. Deceptively simple, his music reaches deep, touching a place within each listener.

Rooted in his Jewish heritage, Yedid blends ancient and newly created niggunim, weaving haunting modal melodies through rich, sometimes surprising harmonic landscapes. Classical sensibilities, Judaeo-Sephardic sacred music, and Middle Eastern sounds intertwine, creating a dreamlike flow where one landscape seamlessly merges into the next.

Yedid’s cantorial voice and piano are integrated, forming a unified sound world that evokes memory, longing, and imagination. This concert invites audiences into a deeply moving experience, where tradition meets contemporary expression and music speaks as powerfully as language.

Praise for Yitzhak Yedid

‘Every sound in this performance flew straight into the soul.’ – Haaretz

‘Yedid's musicality resides on a higher plane while offering bountiful panoramas for the mind's eye.’ – All About Jazz

Tickets

Standard $55 ($45 Concession)

Please note, seating in the Primrose Potter Salon is General Admission.

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About the Artist

Yitzhak Yedid is an Israeli-born Australian pianist and composer whose music bridges cultures and traditions. Born in Jerusalem and raised in a musically inclined family, his father, an amateur cantor, played a significant role in his upbringing, instilling the traditions of Aleppo Jewish liturgical chanting, with a particular focus on Baqashot, Piyyutim, and Niggunim. Yedid’s heritage includes a Syrian-Jewish father and an Iraqi-Jewish mother, giving him deep roots in the Mizrahi musical and spiritual tradition.

Yedid has received major international recognition, including the Azrieli Prize in Jewish Music, the Landau Prize, and a Sidney Myer Creative Fellowship. His works have been performed and commissioned by leading orchestras, ensembles, and festivals across Australia, Europe, and America.

Yedid has developed a distinctive artistic voice that combines structural depth with improvisatory freedom. His musical aesthetics draw on chanting Niggunim and Western piano music, seamlessly integrating them into contemporary works that are at once meditative, expressive, and occasionally provocative. His compositions often convey narratives of memory, longing, and cultural identity, creating immersive sound worlds where tradition and modernity meet.