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Yoav Eshed

Yoav Eshed is an award-winning guitarist and and composer born in Israel, based in Brooklyn, NY. Yoav started to play the piano at the age of 3 and displayed prodigious abilities playing Haydn, Bach and Mendelssohn. He picked up the guitar at the age of 13 and found his unique way to play the guitar with a pianist approach. Since then he has been performing around the world with top Israeli jazz musicians. He has annually received the America-Israel Cultural Foundation scholarships for Jazz since 2008. Received scholarships from the ‘NY New School for Jazz’ and won the ‘Prestigious Dean Award’ from Berklee College Of Music as well as the Guitar Achievement Award from Berklee for an outstanding musicianship. Winner of Lee Ritenour jazz competition ‘Six String Theory’, the annual jazz competition in Israel ‘The Jazz Player’ and the Montreux Jazz Festival Guitar Competition, Solo Instrumental prize of ‘Made in New York’ jazz competition. “Gifted musician with emotional depth and brilliant technical abilities” Mick Goodrick

Awards

America-Israel Cultural Foundation Scholarship Prestigious Dean’s Award by Berklee College Of Music Israeli government support prize of original creation 1st prize Winner of the Jazz section on ‘Six String Theory’ International Guitar Competition 1st prize Winner of The ‘Rimon’ Annual Jazz Competition 1st prize winner of Made in New York Jazz Competition Solo Instrumental Finalist of The Thelonious Monk Institute Masters Program Berklee College of Music Dean’s List 3rd place of The Montreux Jazz Guitar Competition Finalist of Wilson Center Guitar Competition Guitar Achievement Award - Berklee

Gear

D'angelico Guitars Kirlin Cables


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Album Review

Eshed Korten Biolcati Kim: A Way Out

Read "A Way Out" reviewed by Friedrich Kunzmann


One of the more exciting scenarios in jazz unfolds when a group of players comes together, not to realize one individual's specific vision, but just for the sake of making music together and to develop a chemistry which, ideally, was there from the beginning. The group effort here presents the fruits of such an occasion. A Way Out captures a contemporary jazz quartet that's in it for the joy of playing together. Forming the band name under which ...

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Primary Instrument

Guitar

Location

New York City

Willing to teach

Advanced only

Music

Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

A Way Out

Sounderscore
2021

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Places, Real and...

AaronBahr Music
2021

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A Gathering Storm

From: Places, Real and Imagined
By Yoav Eshed

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