Doret Florentin

Born in Thessaloniki, Greece, Doret Florentin began her musical journey in childhood with the study of the recorder. Her dedication and passion for the instrument led her to pursue higher education, earning both her bachelor’s and master’s degrees with distinction at Tel Aviv University in Israel and the Royal Conservatory of The Hague in the Netherlands, respectively, supported by a scholarship from the America-Israel Cultural Foundation (AICF).

From her extensive and rich artistic career, numerous collaborations with renowned artists stand out, including Shunske Sato, Doron Sherwin, Kati Debretzeni, Siebe Henstra, Nigel North, Ton Koopman, Fernando Miguel Jalôto, and David Shemer. She has also participated in recordings for labels such as Stradivarius and Pan Records, as well as for national radio stations in Israel and Greece.
Doret has performed at international festivals in the Netherlands, Spain, Belgium, Switzerland, Germany, Greece, England, Poland, France, the United States, and in major concert halls across Israel. She is the founder and artistic director of the ensembles Me La Amargates Tú and Ensemble Mezzo, with which she regularly performs around the world.

Doret is also a dedicated pedagogue. In Israel, she teaches recorder, recorder consort, recorder pedagogy, and Baroque music performance at various institutions, including Bar-Ilan University, Levinsky-Wingate College, and several schools within the State Music Department.

She is currently a doctoral candidate at the University of Aveiro, in the Department of Communication and Art, where her research focuses on Sephardic Ladino songs, with particular emphasis on exploring their historical and contemporary meanings, as well as their transdisciplinary connections with other areas of culture and knowledge.

Doctoral Project

Title
Adio Querida”: The resemantization and ambivalence of the Sephardic repertoire through an interdisciplinary approach

Advidor
Henrique Portovedo, Susana Sardo and Shoshana Weich-Shahak ( Jewis Music Research Centre)

Abstract

Starting from the well-known Sephardic song Adio Querida, chosen as a paradigm of polysemy, this study aims to examine the multiple meanings attributed to this and other similar songs, reconstructing them through an interdisciplinary approach. It also seeks to explore the rich shared histories of songs from both traditions, with the goal of reconstructing them in a unified manner—resulting in a new product that highlights their coexistence and takes shape through artistic re-creation. The adopted methodology includes bibliographic and archival research, interviews, autoethnography, and interdisciplinary, collaborative artistic investigation.

Keywords
Adio Querida; Interdisciplinary collaboration; Sephardic; Hispanic; Ambivalence; Resemantization; Song; Artistic research