Composers
From the sephardic music roots has grown a large corpus of original new classical music. Notable among modern composers are:
- Yitzhak Yedid, who has composed mostly for chamber groups, strives to combine classical genres with improvisation of Sephardic roots and Arabic music. Yedid's composition 'Oud Bass Piano Trio' is a good example of this.
- Betty Olivero, who has taken traditional Jewish melodies – both Ashkenazic (pertaining to Ashkenazic music) and Sephardic – and sets them in complex, profoundly dissonant contexts. Her work Serafim for soprano, clarinet, violin, cello and piano is a good example of this.
- Tsippi Fleischer, who has composed vocal works that merge contemporary Western compositional techniques with the modal, quartertone scales of Arabic music.
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“More significant than the fact that poets write abstrusely, painters paint abstractly, and composers compose unintelligible music is that people should admire what they cannot understand; indeed, admire that which has no meaning or principle.”
—Eric Hoffer (1902–1983)