Udiana Choir

Anat Aharoni – artistic director and conductor.

The Udiana Choir (formerly, Kolot Hasadeh) was founded by Anat Aharoni at Kibbutz Harduf in 2004. Udiana is unusual on the Israeli scene, has appeared on some of the best stages in the country, and is praised highly by the audiences. The choir sings mainly a capella, with an emphasis on current music, and integrates improvisation, drumming, and movement.

Udiana has been supported by the Ministry for Culture and Sport since 2012. They aim to express processes in human development, so they build their programs around subjects that we research from different angles, including “Prayer”, “Song of
the Earth”, “Peace”, and “Water”.

In 2016 they created a program called “Silence” in collaboration with the Israeli Brass Quintet. In 2017 the subject was “My Soul Returns to the Fire”, where they explored the quality of fire in our lives.

Stemming from the desire to support Israeli composers, and with the aim of being a part of the Israeli music scene, every year they invite another Israeli composer to create an original piece for our program.