Pro Clarinet for Every Event

Whether you want your audience to be immersed in the music or for the music to create a pleasant background atmosphere, or even if you want them to dance, it's all possible.
From jazz to pop songs, Klezmer and latin music, it's all about what your event needs!

Itamar Ben Zimra is a composer, arranger and a performing clarinetist in variety of styles.
His background in jazz and improvised music gives a spontaneous and fresh touch to his compositions and makes him a colorful storyteller with music.

As a clarinetist for over 20 years, he has performed with jazz giants such as Phil Woods, Anat Cohen, Damian Draghici, and Tigran Hamasyan, as well as Yoni Rechter, one of Israel's main cultural assets and song writers.
Itamar has toured the United States twice with two emo rock bands, Escape the Fate and Hawthorne Heights, pushing the conventions of the clarinet to new grounds. As an experienced session player, he has recorded clarinet for many film scores like the Hulu series "We Were The Lucky Ones" by Academy award winner composer Rachel Portman and Emmy nominated composer John Ehrlich, as well as works by composers such as Zach Robinson, Aska Matsumiya, Amit Cohen, Etiene Monsaingeon, Haim Mazar. He also worked with pop producer Leroy Clampitt (Justin Bieber, Sabrina Carpenter, Madison Beer) and recorded as a soloist on the album "Rae" by Ashe (known for the song "Moral of the Story" and collaborating with Finneas)

Itamar's passion for storytelling led him to work with Warner Animation as the composer of the score to "Tom & Jerry in New-York". His previous film scores were featured at Oscar qualifying festivals St. Louis, Cinequest, and Hollyshorts Film Festival as well as Burbank Film Festival, PTFF, Beaufort, and more worldwide.

The magic created when a group of musicians are sitting in a room together, sharing ideas and communicating in the most universal language we have, has always been an inspiration and keeps Itamar on the search for more ways of expression, as a performer, recording clarinetist and composer.

Itamar received a full scholarship to Berklee college of music and graduated with a degree in film scoring, after which he relocated to Los Angeles and worked as a composer, clarinetist and music editor.

A guideline that led Itamar’s perception of music is a quote by one of his favorite authors:
“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent” - Victor Hugo.