Israeli composer in Wauwatosa

Rami Bar-Niv (right) joked with Australian composer Sean O’Boyle (left) and Concord Chamber Orchestra music director Jamin Hoffman (center) during an intermission talk-back at the CCO concert Oct. 26 at St. Matthew’s Evangelical Lutheran Church in Wauwatosa. The orchestra with soprano Suzanne Kompass gave the world premiere of the orchestrated version of Bar-Niv’s song cycle “Longing for My Father” (“Mechake Le’avi” in Hebrew), settings of poems by Jacob Barzilai, and the world premiere of O’Boyle’s song cycle “Conflict, Sadness, Victory and Resolution.” Photo by Leon Cohen.