- Atarah Ben-Tovim
Atarah Ben-Tovim is a British flautist and children's concert presenter.
Born of
Israel i parents, at the age of fourteen, Ben-Tovim played her first television concerto live at theRoyal Albert Hall .She has guested on several UK television and radio shows, including "Lunchtime Pebble Mill" on
BBC TV and the "John Dunn Show", "Start the Week ", "Kaleidoscope" and many other highly rated programmes.In the late 1980s, BBC Radio Three networked "Atarah's Music Box", all about children and music and "Omnibus" devoted a whole programme to her work, as did "
Blue Peter " and "Magpie". Her own television series, aimed at primary school children, aired in 1982 [http://tv.cream.org/a-z/a/a2.htm TV Cream] .Her musical stories for little children in "
Rub-a-Dub-Tub " on Sunday mornings ran for over two years. AndBRMB (Birmingham),Radio City (Liverpool),Radio Merseyside (Liverpool), Radio Piccadilly (Manchester), Red Rose Radio (Preston, Lancashire) and many other stations carried her radio series over the years.She currently resides in
France , where she teaches and holds workshops for budding flautists and clarinettists. [ [http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-70692249.html Culture: Reaching children with music for the soul; Atarah ] ]Personal life
She is married to Douglas Boyd, the author.
References
External links
* http://www.atarah.tv/
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