Born in Jerusalem in 1983,

Yonatan is a graduate from the Rubin Academy in Jerusalem, where he studied guitar with Steve Peskoff and composition with Slava Ganelin, and won many awards and scholarships, among them the AICF Scholarship for jazz.

Since then, he makes his varied and colorful path shifting along the axis between electronics, acoustics, psychedelia and jazz, regularly collaborating with artists from different mediums such as dance, cinema, animation, television, theater, video art and computer games.

Awards:

 

2021 - Ophir award for best score for the soundtrack for the film "Legend Of Destruction" by Gidi Dar (composed with Assaf Talmudi).

2023 - Jerusalem Film Festival award for best score for the film "Daniel Aurbach" by David Volach.

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Yonatan has a diverse range of activity, and he takes part in a variety of different groups, ranging from rock and pop, to jazz, electronica and modern-classical.

Among them: Geshem, Apifera, Avishai Cohen‘s Big Vicious, and Live Beat Tapes.

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Yonatan is a highly demanded session guitarist, bassist and arranger, working with Israel’s top artists. 

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Past and present collaborations include:

LayerZ, Buttering trio, Matti Caspi, Shalom Hanoch, 

Shlomo Gronich, Marina Maximilian Blumin, Shem Tov Levy,

Assaf Amdurski, Shlomi Shaban, Shuli Rand,

The Israel Jazz Orchestra, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra,

Shai Maestro, Nitai Hershkovits, the Revolution Orchestra, Eli Magen, 

Miguel Atwood Ferguson, Alon Lotringer

Metropolin, And many more.