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Aya Lion

Composer | Saxophonist | Sound artist

My practice encompasses performance, improvisation, creating visual scores, recording, curating sound archives, synthesis, and building electronic systems.
Through my work, I articulate liminal spaces that explore the thresholds between imagination and reality, presence and absence, memory and oblivion.
 

I graduated from the Artistic Research Program (2023) and the New Music Department at the Musrara School of Art and Society (2022), where I completed my studies with honors and received the Jerusalem Mayor’s Award (2022) and a Creation Encouragement Grant (2021).

I have participated in residencies in Düsseldorf (2023), where I composed and presented a new work, and at the Arad Contemporary Art Center (2025), where I documented Arad and its surroundings down to the Dead Sea through field recordings and photography.

I have received grants from the Rabinovich Foundation (2025) for Ripples and from Mifal HaPais (2024) for Shvarim ve’T’ruah (Broken Calls and Trembling Wail). My debut album Trains was released in 2024 by the German label Midira Records.

I am a member of Ensemble Musica Nova and the band Bein HaHarisot (Among the Ruins), and have performed at numerous festivals and venues, including InDNegev at the Eretz Israel Museum, the Jerusalem Jazz Festival, Musrara Mix, Tonal Eclipse of the Heart, Festival HaZikuk, the Room Service Festival by the Catamon Dance Group, and Teder.fm.

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Education

2022–2023

Artistic Research Program, Musrara – The Naggar School of Art and Society. Specialization in composition with Amnon Wolman

2019–2022

Certificate Studies, Musrara – The Naggar School of Art and Society. Specialization in composition with Kiki Keren-Huss. Coursework included sound design, field and studio recordings, arrangements, composition, and ensemble performance

2007–2022

Private saxophone studies with Erez Bar Noy, Yonatan Hazan, Maayan James

2016

Graduate of Ironi Aleph School of Arts, Tel Aviv. Majors: Philosophy and Music (Jazz), 10 units

2007-2010

Saxophone studies at the Jaffa Conservatory of Music; performed with the Wind Orchestra, specializing in classical music 

2025

Ripples – for contrabass, tuning forks, and electronics

2024

Shvarim ve Teruah (Broken Calls and Trembling Wail) – for wind trio, percussion, and electronics. Performed at Tonal Eclipse of the Heart Festival (Mazkeka, Jerusalem) and at Felicja Blumental Music Center (2024)

2023

Traces – for cello and computer. Performed at Pergamon with cellist Tom Klein (2023)

2022

Temporary Memory – for recordings and live performers. Performed at Sadek Studio (2022)

Grants and Awards

2025

2024

Rabinovich Foundation Grant for Ripples

Mifal HaPais Grant for Shvarim ve Teruah

2022

2021

Mayor’s Award for Excellence upon graduation

Artistic Encouragement Grant for excellence in studies

Performances

solo

  • Concert.e Festival (2025)
     

  • Musrara Mix Festival (2023)
     

  • Tonal Eclipse of the Heart Festival (2023)
     

  • Venues: Teder, Sadek Studio, Mazkeka, Pergamon, HaTzimer

Ensembles

Residencies

2025

Artist Residency, Center for Contemporary Art, Arad 

2023

Artist Residency, Düsseldorf Municipality, Germany. Composition and performance 

Albums

2005

Trains – solo album, released by Midira Records

Compilations

2024

2023

On the Way – featured on Jerusalem of Sinusoids

Seven Seconds – featured on Aneurysm vol. 1

Compilation Appearances

2025

Views from the Seven Ionian Islands – album by Tom Soloveitzik, released on Suppedaneum

2025

Recording of a work by Maya Felixbrodt

Interdisciplinary Collaborations

Dance / Choreography

  • Music for the dance performance Hevel Peh (Breath Rope) by choreographer Yagel Bassok-Tushinsky, presented at Asif Festival (2024)
     

  • Music and performance for Her Own Room by French choreographer Hélène Taddei Lawson, presented at Room Service Festival (C.A.T.A.M.O.N Dance Group) (2023)

Video / VR

  • Music for a computer game by Maya Livshitz (student project, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design) (2025)
     

  • Music for a VR project by Maya Avramovsky (2022)
     

Sound Installation / Performance

  • Performance with the sound installation of Tzura Tzrura Collective at Beita Gallery (2025)
     

  • Performance with the sound installation of Yoni Niv and Eitan Haviv at the Jerusalem Jazz Festival (2024)

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