Yochai Barak

Yochai Barak is a musician, teacher, producer, and musical director. He has been playing and teaching for over twenty years. He has taught more than 3000 students, both children and adults, in private and group Saz lessons. ‏Yochai has been a teacher for many years in all the major oriental music schools in the country. Every year he creates new workshops, together with masters from Turkey and other international musicians and he is the creator and producer of the famous Saz festival Yochai studied in Turkey for many years, with Master Mehmet Ernler, and Ross Daly. He has performed with noted musicians such as Okan Murat Ozturk, Ross Daly, Mark Eliyahu, Kelly Thoma , Kutla Khan and more... He is the founder of the international band Diwan Saz and has performed at the biggest music festivals in the world, SXSW, Gibraltar, etc.