Eldad Tarmu is an American vibraphonist and composer born on August 26, 1960 in Los Angeles, California. He began his music career as a drummer in various local rock bands with which he toured in the US and Canada. Upon graduating as a percussionist from the Grove Music School, he became more and more interested in the chromatic percussive instruments, and especially the vibraphone. In 1987 he moved to Israel where he continued his activity as a jazz performer and composer. He returned to the States in 1992, released his first jazz CDs and toured extensively all over the world. In 2005 he got his Masters degree in Afro-Latin music from the California State University Los Angeles, consequently being invited to teach at a newly founded Jazz Faculty in Western Romania, where he released a CD that crosses jazz and ethnic styles with the classical music. He is currently living and teaching in the New York area and collaborating with symphonic orchestras in Eastern Europe.

Eldad Tarmu - a biography

Los Angeles born vibraphonist and composer Eldad Tarmu has recently relocated to the East Coast after four years of teaching Jazz Studies at Tibiscus University of Timisoara, Romania. He holds a Masters degree in Afro-Latin Music from California State University Los Angeles and has recorded and performed with some of the most significant figures in their musical genres, including Poncho Sanchez, Ernie Watts, Taj Mahal, Cybil Shepherd, Freddie Hubbard, Billie Higgins, Frank Morgan and Ron Affif. He has performed in over twenty-five countries around the world, in various festivals and concert tours. He has 6 CDs under his own name, including Get Up Close, which was number 20 on the US Jazz radio charts for 4 straight weeks. His latest CD, Songs for the Queen Of Bohemia features Tabac String Quartet from Banatul Philharmonic Orchestra of Timisoara and Israeli drummer Yoni Halevy. This project crosses jazz and Middle Eastern music with chamber music and has developed into a symphonic jazz project that made its debut on the stage of the Philharmonic in Timisoara on January 31, 2009.

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