Efrat Alony is Best Foreign Artist
Efrat Alony was awarded Best Foreign Artist at the Artemis Women in Action Film Festival 2019 in Los Angeles for her song "Hear Me" from the album "Dismantling Dreams". Alony is a lecturer at the Bern University of the Arts.
Alony was born in Haifa as the daughter of Iraqi immigrants and grew up in Israel. There she began her studies in composition and singing, which she later continued in the USA at the Berklee College of Music in Boston and completed in Berlin at the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music.
As a feature vocalist and composer, Efrat Alony has performed with the Sunday Night Orchestra, the Ed Partyka Jazz Orchestra, the Jazz Orchestra Concertgebouw, Amsterdam and the Bigband of the Hessischer Rundfunk. Efrat Alony teaches singing and ensembles at the HKB.
The Artemis Women in Action Film Festival celebrates "women who create cultural change and inspire others".
