CEME 2025

Contemporary Encounters Meitar Ensemble

International New Music Festival

Studio Annette Tel Aviv


Amit Dubester (Switzerland \ Israel) - Saxophone Mastercourse

21.12 - 25.12.2025


CEME (Contemporary Encounters by Meitar Ensemble) Festival and Master Course, is a unique platform for the promotion of contemporary music, established with the aim of engaging young musicians with the latest developments in the field of New Music.

The 2025 edition will feature for the first time a master course for saxophone players with Amit Dubester. During the course he will conduct five intensive days of individual lessons, workshops, and chamber music sessions designed to focus and deepen understanding of the various topics: Specialized performance of a broad repertoire of New Music, mastering extended techniques on the saxophone, diving into the rich and exciting world of free improvisation and presenting the joint work and progress at the final concert of the course. In addition, all participants will have access as listeners to the daily sessions of the composition seminar and will have full access to all concerts of the festival. 

Online participation in the mastercourse is possible.

Photo credit: Michael Pavia

Amit Dubester is an Israeli-Austrian saxophonist, pedagogue and cultural manager based in Switzerland. Winner of numerous international music competitions, scholarships and grants as soloist and as a chamber musician. Amit regularly makes appearances as a soloist with orchestras across Europe and Israel, and has performed in some of the world’s most prestigious concert halls and festivals, including the Berlin Philharmonie, Musikverein Wien, Théatre du Châtelet, Tonhalle Zürich, Bayreuther Festspiele and Opernhaus Zürich. As an enthusiastic advocate of the saxophone, Amit regularly collaborates with contemporary composers and performs with ensembles which specialise in performing New Music. The strong wish to share his love of music-making in various genres with saxophonists of all ages and levels led him to pursue an active and successful teaching career alongside his artistic profile. He is currently saxophone teacher at the Zurich Conservatory and was previously teaching in the Zurich University of the Arts.

Amit is a Henri Selmer Paris and D’Addario Woodwinds Artist.


Applications:

Please fill the online registration form (see below) and send the following supporting materials via email - ceme.meitarensemble@gmail.com:

  • Professional CV

  • 2 recent recordings:

    • One major work from the Baroque / Classical / Romantic repertoire

    • One work written after 1950​

  • Recommendation letter from current or recent teacher (optional)

application Deadline: September 30th, 2025 - 23:59 Jerusalem time

COSTS:

450 Euros (1800 NIS) + transaction fees