Nurit hirsh biography

HIRSH, NURIT (– ), Israeli composer and arranger of Israeli folk songs. She was born in Tel Aviv and graduated from the Rubin Music Academy. She also studied movie and electronic music at UCLA in Los Angeles, and composition in New York.

After her military service as a musician she started composing songs.

Her first song, "Peraḥ ha-Lilakh" ("The Lilac Flower"; lyrics Uri Asaf) appeared in Since then she has composed and orchestrated more than one thousand songs performed by the best Israeli singers and ensembles. Hirsh also wrote the score for 14 motion pictures, such as Ha-Shoter Azulai (The Policeman Azulai), Immi ha-Generalit ("My Mother the General"), the musical Salah Shabbati, and television series, such as Parpar Nehmad and Kerovim Kerovim.

Her song "Osei Shalom bi-Meromav" was awarded third prize in the first Hasidic Song Festival () and became a major hit on the international scene and adopted in prayers by many Biography - נורית הירש - HICYC