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The
Livnat brothers perform and record original music and contemporary
yiddish jazz music in Israel and abroad. The Livnat Brothers
recent concert tours have included Paris, London, Strasbourg,
Belgium, Prague, Sofia and Poland as well as the U.S.A.
They have performed with Stevie Wonder for president Bill
Clinton. Aviv & Arik won the British Millenium Award
for original music which they wrote for a London West End
Theater production. They received "America Israel"
Foundation grants for jazz music, and ACUM's Golden Feather
award for the disc "A Child's Dream".
Aviv
Livnat is a musician (guitar and vocalist), painter
and composer.
He
did his military service as a guitarist in the Israel Air
Force band. He is presently doing his doctorate in Tel Aviv
University (philosophy and art).
Arik
Livnat, a musician, (saxophones, flutes, shofar) He
is also a composer and actor. He served in the army as a
soloist in the IDF Orchestra. Arik recorded and performed
together with some of the best artists in Israel, and also
played with the singer Stevie Wonder.

They produced and recorded the following discs:
The first disc, "The One You Can't See" (1990)
includes original music that was dedicated to their father,
the pilot Arnon Livnat ,who was killed in the Six Day War.
The second disc, "Meditation of the Sad Soul"
(1997) is a fascinating adaptation of poems by various poets.
The third disc, "Jewish Jazz live in Poland,"
(2000) was recorded live in the prestigious jazz club, Blue
Note, in Poland and became part of the tour of 15 concerts
throughout the country. The fourth disc, "A Child's
Dream," (2002) won ACUM's "Golden Feather"
award. The fifth disc "Arik Livnat" (2002), original
music and songs. The sixth disc,"ven Yash is geforn"
(2004) music based on the yiddish novel 'ven Yash is geforn'.
The seventh disc "Manger Ballads" (2007) with
Helen Beer.

Apart from their wide-ranging musical activities, they established
a special arts foundation, the Raz-Ram
Foundation, for orphaned children. The foundation works
in all fields of the arts with Jewish, Arab, Druze and Bedouin
children.
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