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Koby Hayon: Gemini
by Dan Bilawsky
While Israeli-born guitarist Koby Hayon has been Stateside since 2001, he still proudly displays his roots in his musical projects. His position as the director of a Westchester, NY-based Jewish music festival--Nigunim: A Festival of New Improvised Jewish Music--and his work with fellow Israeli's Nadav Snir-Zelniker and Assaf Glizner in Trio Shalva are overt expressions of his background, and plenty of the pieces on Gemini also look out toward the Middle East. For this outing, Hayon is ...
read moreTake Five With Koby Hayon
by AAJ Staff
Meet Koby Hayon:Koby Hayon was born and raised in Jerusalem, Israel. While studying at the Rimon School of Jazz and Contemporary Music in Tel Aviv, Hayon gathered experience as a guitarist with the DGK Trio and other notable groups.
In 2001, Koby moved to the United States, where he would earn his BM in jazz studies at SUNY, Purchase. There, as a recipient of the Ullendorff Memorial Foundation scholarship, Westchester Art Council, New York ...
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