Ravid Goldschmidt | id

Brought up on a kibbutz, Ravid first heard the Hang at a festival in Israel and was immediately inspired to play it. He bought his first drum and went to live in the Negev desert, where the stillness and silence provided the perfect environment to master the instrument. Later he travelled to Switzerland where he stayed with the inventors of Hang and evolved his technique and unique way of playing. Whilst playing on a frozen river in Quebec he started to play with gloves and discovered this gave a whole new level of sound quality to his performance. Ravid currently...

Berthold Goldschmidt (b. Hamburg, 18 January 1903; d. London, 17 October 1996) was a German Jewish composer who spent most of his life in England. The suppression of his work by Nazi Germany, as well as the disdain with which many Modernist critics elsewhere dismissed his "anachronistic" lyricism, stranded the composer in the wilderness for many years before he was given a revival in his final decade. Goldschmidt's musical career began in earnest during the heyday of the Weimar Republic in Germany. While studying philosophy at the University of Hamburg, he was encouraged by the Italian composer Ferruccio Busoni to...