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Israeli-born soprano Idit Arad began her studies at the Rubin Academy High School in Jerusalem. She became part of a select group of young Israeli musicians chosen by the America-Israel Cultural Foundation to take part in workshops and private coaching sessions with musicians such as Isaac Stern, Leon Fleisher, and Menahem Pressler. At the end of her high school years she pursued her education at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London, followed by operatic training at the Federico Davia Opera Studio, London. Since then she has performed as a soloist in concerts and operatic productions in England, Spain, Israel, Hungary, and France. Arad has always had a deep affinity with Spain, and Spanish classical music, possibly because of her own roots; her family on her mother?s side are Sepharadic Jews, the ancient Jews of Spain. Yuval Zorn is an Israeli conductor who also performs as a solo pianist and accompanist in concerts and recitals in Israel and abroad. ! Flamenco guitarist Luis Miguel Manzano was born in Madrid to a gypsy family steeped in Flamenco history and tradition.