Ever regret not having learned a musical instrument and blamed it on your parents, where you grew up, lack of money or unavailability of good teachers? Today, your children and grandchildren have no such excuses.

If your child is talented, you might consider a move to the Galilee village of Migdal, or at least near-by, where pedagogic and music director Dr. Anna Rosnovsky will turn him or her into a musician.  But if you would rather stay in the center of the country, you can enroll your child in the piano program at the Kfar Saba Conservatory of Music, to learn with Adela Umansky.

Recently, ESRA Kfar Saba presented eight young products of this excellent Russian music education at Bayit Bakfar Hadarim to raise money for a Kfar Saba project, Students Build a Neighborhood, and it was an evening to remember.  These youngsters, aged 9-15, played with the dexterity, musical understanding, interpretation and poise way beyond their years.   

Professor Maxim Vengerov, a world-renowned Russian-taught Israeli violinist and conductor, wanted to pass on the type of musical education he received and turned to Dr. Anna Rosnovsky, a retired violinist from the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra.  The Center for Musicians of Tomorrow was founded after the Second Lebanon War in September, 2006 in pastoral Migdal, where Maxim's parents live. Of the six hundred students who turned to the project, twenty were chosen for this rigorous program. They take daily classes in violin, cello, piano, dance and English and perform in concerts all over Israel throughout the year, winning prizes, competitions and awards. With Rami Rabinovich, managing director, the cooperation of the local community center and the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, the program has changed the atmosphere of the village, where one sees children from the age of four, from all socioeconomic backgrounds, walking around with their violins.

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