Tal Yahalom ‘Mirror Image’
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~ Currently booking spring 2026 - spring 2027 ~
“Exhibiting a mastery of both nylon string and electric guitars, Tal Yahalom delivers an imaginative and wide-ranging set of original compositions. He has a pristine, soulful touch, immaculate technique, and great arranging skills. One of the most engaging guitar albums I’ve heard lately”
“… it’s the shape and the trajectory of the guitarist’s work that always impresses… music that has emerged out of a highly personal vision and it’s all the stronger for its avoidance of easy critical categorization.” ”
Featuring a unique instrumentation of guitar, violin, cello, woodwinds and percussion set, ‘Mirror Image’ plays as both a tightly knit chamber ensemble and an explorative, versatile jazz band.
With members equally versed in performance, composition and improvisation, the quintet shape-shifts through a wide palette of timbres, roles and orchestrations, creating a sound completely its own.
The band presents a wide repertoire of original compositions inspired by contemporary jazz, romantic classical music, and various groove-based traditions from around the world.
Aiming to create meditative and reflective spaces for both performers and audience members, the music moves between through-composed sections and rich arrangements to diverse creative zones of improvisation and interplay.
The band released their self-titled debut album on Adhyâropa Records on March 21st, 2025, and performs at notable venues east coast venues such as The Jazz Gallery, Firehouse 12, Close-Up, LunAtico, SEEDS, and more.
“… immersive pieces that reflect Yahalom’s admiration of Maurice Ravel, pieces that invite listeners to pause and ponder”
“Mirror Image is a refreshing, expansive and gorgeous record. I was hooked from the first minute on Prelude, and was struck by the depth and scope of the compositions coupled with Tal’s mastery of the guitar. Check out his shimmering, clean, virtuosic playing mirrored with lush string writing and intense band interplay. So many surprising moments. A record I will keep returning to!” ”
“Yahalom’s writing makes complex harmonic and rhythmic ideas feel natural, even inevitable. And there’s enough room in the arrangements for genuine astonishment”
Band Members:
Ledah Finck is a violinist, violist, improviser, and composer based in NYC. A passionate performer, creator, and curator of contemporary classical and experimental music, she is a co-founder of the Bergamot Quartet, as well as Tropos (collective of composers and improvisers) and earspace ensemble (contemporary music ensemble based in Raleigh, NC). As a composer, she has been commissioned by Imani Winds, Alarm Will Sound/Now Hear This, Ayane and Paul, the Bridge Ensemble, and The Peabody Community Chorus among others. Her music embodies a desire to create and share a sound-world in which the classical tradition, the folk music with which she grew up in the Blue Ridge Mountains, and an extensive improvisatory sensibility can be in productive dialogue.
In 2019 she was invited to perform as part of the Sitka Summer Music Festival and the Lucerne Festival Alumni tour. With the Bergamot Quartet, she participated in the Ensemble Modern Chamber Music Academy in Innsbruck, the Quatuor Diotima Academy in France, the Next Festival of Emerging Artists, the Banff Centre Evolution of the String Quartet program, and the Young Artist Development Series in El Paso, TX. Ledah has also participated in Ensemble Modern's Klangspuren Academy, the Bang on a Can summer institute at MASS MoCA, Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival, the Aspen Music Festival and School, and the Yellow Barn Young Artists Program. She holds undergraduate and master’s degrees in violin performance and composition from the Peabody Conservatory, where she studied with Herbert Greenberg, Oscar Bettison, and Judah Adashi, and studied at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on a Kenan Scholarship, a full fellowship for musical and academic merit. She plays a 2012 violin by her father, David Finck.
David Leon is a Miami-born saxophonist, woodwinds player, composer, and improviser living in Brooklyn, New York. His work is guided by a persistent search for vitality through autonomy, contradiction, hyperbole, and humor. His work with the saxophone investigates alternate methods for producing a tone, refinement of these techniques, and development of a distinct vocabulary using these sounds; he melds this timbral approach with melodic and rhythmic phrasing from Cuban folkloric traditions, narrative playing, Free Jazz & avant-garde esthetics, and microtonality to reveal a personal conceit.
In 2024, David was named a 2024 Music Composition Fellow by the CINTAS Foundation and was awarded a Roulette 2024 Jerome Commission to support the creation of a hybrid work of chamber music and wordless puppet theatre, A Divine Echo. Most recently, David received a Roulette 2024/2025 Jerome Artist Residency and will present new solo work at Roulette Intermedium in April 2025.
David's current projects include Bird's Eye, a trio with Doyeon Kim and Lesley Mok that released an album on Pyroclastic Records in March 2024, and Locomotive, a double horns-guitars-percussion trio co-led alongside Adam O’Farrill. His debut album, Aire de Agua (released August 2021 on Out of Your Head Records) has been praised as “a splendid debut from a young saxophone player who, starting with the right foot, promises to make a name for himself in the creative jazz scene” (Felipe Freitas, JazzTrail). He has also released two albums in the Current Obsession series that documents improvisations with current collaborators.
An active sideperson, David has collaborated with artists including Tomas Fujiwara, Nick Dunston, Dafnis Prieto, Ingrid Laubrock, Cory Smythe, Weston Olencki, Brian Lynch, Garrett Wingfield, Aaron Quinn, and others.
Canadian cellist and composer Daniel Hass has built an impressive career that encompasses a diverse range of pursuits, genres, and achievements. He has performed as a soloist with orchestras across Canada, the Unites States, and Europe; has been commissioned by the Glenn Gould Foundation, Random Access Music, Tribeca New Music, and the Revolve Dance Program; and has received awards and grants from institutions such as the Stulberg Competition, the Canada Council for the Arts, and the Sylva Gelber Foundation.
Daniel is a founding member of the Renaissance String Quartet, alongside violinists Randall Goosby and Jeremiah Blacklow, and violist Jameel Martin. The quartet had its debut recital in New York in April of 2023, where they premiered Daniel’s first string quartet, “Love and Levity.”
A sought-after chamber musician in New York, Daniel frequently performs as a guest artist with the Jupiter Chamber Players, the Omega Ensemble, and Random Access Music. Uniquely versatile as cellist, Daniel often performs and records with modern jazz ensembles such as Orlando Furioso (winner of the 2023 German Jazz awards) and Phillip Golub’s Abiding Memory Quintet, as well as with pop and folk artists such as May Rio, Lila Dupont, and Sloppy Jane.
Daniel is an alum of the Perlman Music Program. He graduated from Juilliard in 2017 as a recipient of the Kovner Fellowship, and in 2021 with a Master's Degree. He studied with cellists Timothy Eddy and Joel Krosnick, and violinists Areta Zhulla and Itzhak Perlman. He plays the 1730 ‘Newland’ Joannes Franciscus Celoniatus cello from Turin, Italy, on generous loan from the Canada Council for the Arts.
