Roger Ychai

ROGER YCHAI

1941 Born in Oran, Algeria
1948 Art and Music studies at the Oran's Conservatory
1957 moved to Paris, France
1957 music studies at the Scuola Cantorum in Paris and at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes
1958 studied painting at the School of Arts, Place des Vosges
Guitar soloist under the direction of lda Presti and A.Lagoya
1967 Granted a scholarship to study at the Bela Bartok Academy in Budapest, where he resarched Hungarian folklore
1969 A fairly long sojourn in Iran allowed him to familiarize himself with oriental music
1970 Music teacher at the Scuola Cantorum and Paris’ Conservatories.
1981 came to lsrael, settling in Jerusalem
1986 active member of the Jerusalem Ensemble for Contemporary Music
1987 First collages
1988 Music teacher at the Jerusalem Music Center
1992 Studied painting with Anatoly Basin
1993 Member of the Israeli Painters Association
1997 Teacher in the Jerusalem Center for Oriental Music
2000 From July: creation of the Studio Haoman 18


One-Man Exhibitions :

1991 Habama Theatre, Jerusalem
1992 Gerard Behar Theatre, Jerusalem
1998 Grenoble, France
1999 Triangle d'Art, Ivry,France
2000 From July: creation of the Studio Haoman 18 whith a permanent exposure of its works


Selected Group Exhibitions :

1993 New Members at the Artist’ s House, Jerusalem
1993 The Municipality’ s Gallery, Jerusalem
1994 The Municipality’ s Gallery, Jerusalem
1995 The Municipality’ s Gallery, Jerusalem
1995 The Artist’ s House, Jerusalem
1996 The Artist’ s House, Jerusalem
1997 Saint-Petersbourg
2001 The Artist’ s House, Jerusalem (with A. Basin and H. Tarjan)
2003 Teena, Jerusalem


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