Itamar Doari is an internationally renowned percussion artist, music producer, and composer. For over 20 years, Doari has been collaborating with myriad artists, performing concerts on the world's most prestigious stages, teaching master classes, recording albums, participating in music conferences, and spreading his music and spirit across the globe. Itamar was born and raised in the Galilee surrounded by a wealth of musical traditions and rhythms—Egyptian, Sephardic, Turkish, Persian, and Bedouin, which coexist in and resonate from this same tiny area of the country. Inspired by this artistic environment and infinite musical sources, Doari began studying the ancient art of rhythm and drumming and digging into his cultural roots. This search led to the development of his unique musical identity and technique. Doari's status as one of the world's most innovative and influential percussionists derives from years of musical collaborations and study while traveling and touring, which he combined with his native Middle Eastern influences. He channeled these talents into his musical craft to create compositions for renowned dance companies, such as the Vertigo Dance Company, original music productions such as WadiAtma, film scores and his work as a musical director for festivals such as the Secret Music Festival., He also collaborates with world-renowned musicians such as Avishai Cohen, Avi Avital, Ladino singer Yasmin Levy, Concha Buika, Berry Sakharof, Idan Raichel, Esther Ofarim, Yoni Rechter, Eviatar Banai, Amal Murcus, Ahuva Ozeri, Shye BenTzur, Nitin Sawhney, Omer Faruk Tekbilek, Radiohead guitarist and composer Johnny Greenwood and more. In 2010 Doari was one of the founding members of the band Yemen Blues with singer and composer Ravid Kahalani. The two produced three albums together and explored, through the band music inflected with contemporary funk grooves, Arabic beats, and deeply soulful, ancient chants deriving from cultures spanning Yemen to West Africa.