The Adama Ensemble are: Itamar Erez (guitars, piano), Tony NIckels (reeds), Laurence Mollerup (bass), Stefan Cihelka (tabla) & Nick Apivor (percussion).

Itamar Erez is an Israeli born Canadian composer, pianist and guitarist with a breadth of expression from European classical to jazz, world music and beyond.
Erez's music has been commissioned and performed by various soloists, ensembles and orchestras throughout Europe, the Middle East, United States and Canada including The BBC Singers (UK), The Israeli Chamber Orchestra, The Ra'anana Symphonette Orchestra (Israel), Partita Radicale (Germany) ALEA III (Boston) and the Standing Wave Ensemble (Canada). His works are published in Australia, Israel and Canada, and Erez is an Associate Composer of the Canadian Music Centre.

Itamar Erez also composes music for theatre, modern dance, and film. In 2002-2004 he has collaborated with director Rafi Spivak in the short films “The Man In Pajamas” and “Fragments of Proximity”. The film “The Man in Pajamas” was featured in several film festivals in Canada and Europe.

While in Germany, Itamar has participated as pianist in Steven Berkoff’s film ‘Decadence’, featuring Joan Collins.

At the Chutzpah! Festival 2005 Itamar has collaborated with choreographer and dancer Simone Orlando (of Ballet BC) in the creation of 'Kiseh' for solo piano and a dancer.

On a recent trip to Spain, Itamar has taken workshops with Brazilian composer and multi-instrumentalist Egberto Gismonti and flamenco guitarist Gerardo Nunez.

He is currently working on music soundtrack for a documentary for the 'National Film Board of Canada'.

Aside from his classical pursuits Erez has been active in both the jazz and World Music idioms. At 22 he made his debut performance at the Red Sea International Jazz Festival with his Itamar Erez Trio performing his original compositions.

In 2003, Erez formed ADAMA World Ensemble to explore the commonality of Middle Eastern, World Music, Classical Music and Jazz.