Bavat Marom is a dramatic mezzo-soprano/contralto, a voice teacher, a composer, and a
multidisciplinary artist. Her artistic career commenced in her native Israel, where she initially
pursued painting, dance, and composition studies, the latter under the tutelage of Prof. Abel Ehrlich,
Prof. Chaya Czernowin, and Prof. Ruben Seroussi.
Her formal vocal studies began at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria, with Professor Rudolf
Knoll. After three years at the Mozarteum, she was offered the only available place that year at the
Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, where she subsequently obtained a Bachelor of Music
degree in Voice and a Master of Music degree in Opera. During her time at Curtis, Ms. Marom
performed a multitude of roles with companies such as the Opera Company of Philadelphia and
Opera North. She also participated in masterclasses with a number of distinguished artists,
including Luciano Pavarotti, Anna Moffo, Regina Resnick, Galina Vishnevskaya, Betty Allan, Todd
Duncan, and others. She pursued further studies at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und
Darstellende Kunst Stuttgart, where she specialized in the interpretation of Wagnerian roles. During
her student years, she also worked in her spare time as a High-Holidays cantor and as a fashion
model.
Upon graduation, she won the America-Berlin Opera Foundation competition out of 4,000 singers,
and was invited to join the roster of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, where she met her mentor and
teacher, Kammersängerin Kaja Borris. At the Deutsche Oper Berlin, she performed a range of lyric
and dramatic mezzo-soprano roles, as well as contralto roles in operas by Wagner (Der Ring des
Nibelungen), Verdi, Bizet, and Humperdinck, among others. After leaving Berlin, she became a
freelance singer in the United States and Europe, where she performed various roles in operas,
recitals, chamber music and oratorios and specialized in singing contemporary music.
In addition to operatic roles, Ms. Marom performed in symphonic concerts, chamber music, and
recitals, singing works by Mahler, Mozart, De Falla, Piazzolla, and others. She also participated in
the premieres of compositions by contemporary composers, many of which were written especially
for her, in venues such as Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center in New York, the Deutsche Oper
Berlin, Schloss Elmau, and The Israel Festival.
Her career in teaching college-level students commenced in 2004 at the Beit-Zvi School of
Performing Arts. Thereafter, she spent eight years teaching at New York's The New School for Jazz
and Contemporary Music's Tel Aviv campus, commencing in 2010. She also taught at The
Performing Arts Studio in 2011, and at the Levinsky-Wingate Academic College from 2021 to
2023. Currently, she serves as the primary vocal teacher at Israel's premier music conservatory, the
Israel Conservatory of Music Tel Aviv, where she commenced her tenure in 2012, and at the
Nechama Talpaz Music Studio in Herzliya. Additionally, every summer since 2014 she returns to
teach at the International Masterclasses, currently named The International Masterclasses History,
Music and Memory, where students from across the world come to study with her.
Her teaching method is a direct continuation of the European lineage of vocal training. Her lessons
focus on building a solid vocal technique based on anatomical knowledge, with conceptual roots in
the historical teachings of masters such as Giovanni Battista Lamperti and Manuel Garcia II. She
was personally trained by David Jones in New York to be a teacher of the Swedish-Italian School of
Mezzo-Soprano/Contralto & Voice Teacher
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Singing, and by Pietro Naviglio in Italy to be a teacher of the Italian method of Arturo Melocchi
(teacher of Mario Del Monaco). In her lessons, she frequently integrates her knowledge and
experience of Iyengar Yoga, Feldenkrais Method, Alexander Technique, and Thomas Hanna's
Somatics into her teaching.
Over the years, she has led several annual workshops that culminated in professional productions.
In these productions, she has been responsible for casting, vocal coaching, repertoire selection,
staging, administration, and logistics. Some of these productions have been adopted as main stage
repertoire by professional theaters.
Currently, Bavat combines her extensive singing and teaching activities with her renewed interest in
composing, enjoying performances of her music by artists around the world, including herself. In
her spare time, she is studying classical homeopathy, another one of her areas of interest.
