Bio page

Musician , Producer , Studio & Live Sound Engineer


1995-1996


A member of 2 Israeli bands that expanded to Europe and the United Stats:

  • Substance for God (Signed with nuclear blast europe)
  • White Powder MA (The band’s track d-tune was in the 2005 movie, lord of war featuring Nicolas Cage and Jared Leto).

1997-1999


Relocated to NYC where he continued his music career in live performance and music production.

In 1997 Played out NYC area as part of the band bavel

In 1998 played a short NYC tour with the Gypsy Kings.

1997-1999 Itamar did percussive work for some of the biggest clubs in NY such as Limelight & Chaos to name a few.

In 1999 performed as a musician on the gold receiving status album “Hasaruf” in Israel, and played the following tour.


2000


returned to NY to produce and perform trip hop / rock album by Omri.


2001


Joined hip hop & reggae production house Greystone Productions in Jamaica Queens, as head sound engineer. Among the artist worked with:

  • Terry Ganzie
  • Junior Tiger
  • Minx

2002-2006


Itamar continued to produce Minx’s album with Marcus Black & P-man and toured with Minx’s reggae band.

  • Produced, performed & mixed Daddy Foxxy reggae/electronic album.
  • produced, performed & mixed Entity Digital electronic album.
  • Studio work with Julee Cruise (David Lynch, B-52’s and a great solo artist).

2003-2005 - Joined the progressive metal band Mahavatar, tour’d with the band & produced & recorded their EP 2003 album.


Between 2002-2005 CO produced/wrote, recorded & mixed the electronic album Con-Fusion that was presented at the ADE festival in Amsterdam.


between 2005-2006 produced, performed, orchestrated recorded & mixed omri’s 2nd and last album.


2007-2008


Produced, performed, recorded & mixed harpist and folk singer Katie Brennan‘s debut album “slowly”

Produced, CO wrote performed, orchestrated & mixed M.S Shira Retro album.

Composed & performed on short films from the ripple project:

  • War (narrated by actor elliot gould)
  • Binding of Isaac.

2009


Sound mixed the documentary film Above Brooklyn by Heather Spilken

Arranged strings parts for 3 songs for canadian singer Zacharia’s album “Beautiful Mystery”.

Other acts worked with during these years:

  • Plasma-Progressive Rock
  • Lucy Woodward-Singer
  • Yula and the extended Family-Singer

2004-2010


Produced, composed, performed, arranged, recorded & mixed Brooklyn Native and Harlem Gospel Choir R&B/Hip hop singer Lakendra Ford.


2006-2010


FOH live engineer for grammy award winner the hip hop violinist Miri Ben Ari.

Major concerts during these years included:

  • Aventura live at Madison Square Garden,NYC

Fashion rocks & the dream concert at Radio City Music Hall,NYC.

Vh1 save the music (featuring Roger Waters):

  • Cleveland Music Festival.
  • Viacom Los Angeles.
  • Hillary Clinton gala with the Roots ,NYC.
  • Sony music gala feat Wyclef Jean And Cyndi Lauper.
  • Apollo Theater, NY, James Brown Wake Memorial.
  • Grand Ole Opry, Nashville TN.
  • Jeff Beacher Madhouse Hard Rock ,Las Vegas NV.
  • Trafalgar Square, United Kingdom.
  • Lodz, Poland music festival
  • Sardinia ,Italy show with Alphaville.
  • Zack Posen Fashion week Runway shows.
  • To name a few

tv networks work include:

  • Mtv
  • Pbs
  • Nbc
  • Espen
  • Abc

2010


Produced, performed, orchestrated, recorded & mixed Razi El - Funk Retro album.


2011-2012


Itamar co produced, performed, orchestrated, recorded & mixed Junkiespaceship experimental electro/rock album “Tour 1”.

CO produced, performed, recorded & mixed Chuva’s debut album “Summary” which gained outstanding reviews.

Itamar Had the privilege to perform, record & mix Israel’s most famous and iconic singer Arik Einstein.

Sound mixed Shanni Harpaz album.

Sound mixed and played percussion on Israel’s iconic singer Shlomo Artzi’s duet with Arik Einstein “Returning Home”

Sound mixed Guy Bukati’s single “Ata Rotze Et Hakol

Mixed 4 songs on Elinor Aharon’s album.


2013


Jacob & CO Exhibition Show in “Hotel the Paris” in Monte Carlo with presenters Cristiano Ronaldo and Guliette Binouch.

Took part as FOH live engineer for armin Van Buuren intense opening tour at Zigo Dome arena in Amsterdam, NL, for a 2 night concert infront of 40,000 people.

CO produced, performed, recorded & mixed Junkiespaceship 2nd album “Elegant Monkeys

Produced, performed , recorded & mixed Nadav Malter’s album “Short Stories , Long Tale


2015


Performed & sound mixed Daniel Asyag’s single “Eypho At”.


2016


Performed & mixed some tracks on Shahar Mintz album “Know Yourself”


2017-2018


CO produced , performed, orchestrated & sound mixed the album “Sabotage” by Berlin based Cellist Illay.

In 2017 performed on & sound mixed the band Lambretta single “Half a Cup”.

In 2018 wrote and performed original score as well as sound designed Soho Film Festival selected short film “Red Velvet”.


2016 till present


Itamar holds a position of sound engineer at one of Israel’s largest theaters, The Cameri theater in Tel Aviv as well as FOH live sound engineer for the Caliente music company.


Produced albums, participated as a musician, arranged or mixed for:


Daddy Foxxxy

Reggae Artist

Katie Brennan

Country & Blues

Chuva

Indie Trip Rock

Gypsy Kings

flamenco, salsa and pop

Yula Beeri

Experimental

Arik Einstein

Israeli Singer

Entity Digital

Electronic

Lakendra Ford

R&B, Soul & Rock

Shlomo Artzi

Singer & Songwriter

Confusion

Electronic

White Powder MA

Prog Rock

Guy Bukati

Singer & Songwriter

Mahavatar

Heavy Metal

Substance for God

Goth Metal

Yoav Green

Singer & Songwriter

Omri

Rock & Trip Hop

Ms Shira

Experimental Soul

Plasma

Prog Rock

JunkieSpaceship

Experimental Junkie Music

Sound Work With:


Julee Cruise

David Lynch, B52’s and a great solo artist

Miri ben Ari

Live Sound Engineer for Grammy Award Winner Hip Hop Violinist
(2006, 2010)

Avantura

Live at Madison Square Garden, NYC

Fashion Rocks & The Dream Concert

Radio City Music Hall, NYC

Featuring:


Alicia Keyes

Stevie Wander

Aretha Franklin


Santana

Maroon 5

Jennifer Lopez


Garth Brooks

Fergie

Usher


Mary J. Blidge

Joss Stone

Aerosmith


Channels:


VH1 Save the Music

Featuring Roger Waters

MTV

PBS


NBC

Espen

ABC


Armin van Buuren

Tour Opening at Ziggo Doom

Caliente Music Company

In House FOH Engineer

International Shows in:


USA

Italy

Netherlands


Bermuda

UK

Monte Carlo


Equador

Poland

Canada


Israel


Studio experience - Analog consoles of all kinds:


Neve

SSL

Harrison


Rcf

Analog Outboard Gear


Additional software experience with:


Abelton Live

Reason

Digital Performer


Logic

Sibelius


Live sound hardware experience - Most digital boards out there include:


Yamaha- pm series , dm series , ls series & cl.Series.

Digico- sd 8 ,sd 9 , sd 10 &sd 12

Midas- pro 2 series & x32 seris.


Alan&heath-I live series , qu series ,sq series.


Itamar also compose strings and orchestral arrangements.

was born

March 28, 1977


lives

Tel Aviv, Yad Eliyahu


experience

20+ years


Born in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Moved to Los Angeles, California in 1994 to study music at Musicians Institute.

In 1997 relocated to New York.

Itamar is pro tools specialist With over 19 years of extensive experience with the platform ,software & hardware.

Itamar's moto:

We were there once.
Now we are here........Now.





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