One of Israel’s most versatile and world renown musicians.

He studied composition and conducting in Tel-Aviv (Paul Ben-Chaim), Berlin (Boris Blacher) and Salzburg (Igor Markevitch) and philosophy at the Jerusalem University.

Since the premiere of his work , Festival Prelude, by the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra under Leonard Bernstein at the opening of the Mann Auditorium in Tel-Aviv in 1957, his works are regularly performed in Israel and all over the world.

In his music one finds an original solution to the fusion between East and West, between the musical elements of the ancient Mediterranean countries and the musical culture of the West.

Among his most significant works are the three vocal big scale works which form a trilogy.

Mechaye Hamethim (Revival of the Dead) which was premiered in 1987 in Amsterdam by the IPO and is based on the Jewish East-European traditional music as well as the ancient Jewish oriental themes of the Samaritans. Sephardic Passion which was premiered in 1992 in Toledo, Spain, by the IPO, Zubin Mehta and Placido Domingo is based on the Music of the Sephardic Jewry and Psalms of Jerusalem which was premiered in 1995 in Jerusalem to open the 3000 years celebrations to the City with its four choirs around the hall singing in Hebrew and Latin.

His newest vocal work, “Genesis”, was commissioned and premiered by the Israel Philharmonic and Maestro Zubin Mehta at the festive concerts of Israel’s 50th Independence day.

His "Mechaye Hamethim" was performed by the IPO under Mehta in a unique concert for Israel's 50th anniversary at “Yad Vashem" Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem.

Noam Sheriff conducts regularly his works and other works of the orchestral repertory all over the world. Between 1989-1995 he was the music director of the Israel Symphony Orchestra Rishon Le-Zion which had, under his leadership, a success unprecedented in Israeli musical history.

Since 1963 Noam Sheriff has been teaching composition and conducting. He taught in institutes as the Jerusalem and Tel Aviv Universities as well as the Musikhochschule in Cologne and the Mozarteum in Salzburg. During those years he was directing many music festivals in Israel as well as various television and radio programs.

Since 1990 Noam Sheriff is Professor for composition and conducting at the Tel-Aviv University's Rubin Academy of Music and between 1998-2000 its director.

Since January 2002 he is the music director of the Israel Chamber Orchestra. The orchestra, under his leadership has won the praise of the critics and audiences in the season 2002-3, his first season as its music director.

Since April 2004 he has been nominated as Music Director of the New Haifa Symphony Orchestra.

Noam Sheriff is the winner of the prestigious EMET PRIZE for the year 2003, the highest prize given in Israel for excellence in Sciences and culture.

Noam Sheriff's works are published by IMI and by C.F. Peters Edition, Frankfurt.