Albert Beger,Was born in Turkey in 1959. Immigrated to Israel at the age of 3. Since a young age, Albert was exposed to music and at the beginning of the 70’s he took on the guitar and became involved with different Rock ensembles.

During those years he was influenced by Alternative music and aspired to create his music along those lines. Soon after, Albert discovered the range and shades of notes that a flute can produce especially after he listen to Ian Anderson’s music.

He started learning classical music with Uri Taplitz, who was the first flute player with the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra. At the same time, along side his classical flute studies, Albert started showing an interest in Jazz music and playing it.
All along with endless curiosity exploring the improvisation music that fascinated him.

In 1985 Albert join the first year of the contemporary music school “Rimon” and at the same time started playing the tenor saxophone which became his main instrument.
In a later stage he added the soprano saxophone as well. Shortly after he became involved with the Jazz scene in Tel Aviv of those years, following John Coltrain, Sony Rollins, Ornet Colman, Eric Dolphy and moving on to the free style Jazz.

In 1988 Albert received a full tuition grant from Berkley College in Boston, and went there with his wife Anat.
In Berkley Albert specialised in performing, took some advanced courses in composition, and studied saxophone with the legendary teacher Joe Viola, who greatly influenced Albert’s music on the soprano sax. He also took some lessons with George Garzon.


During his stay in the US, Albert learned improvisation with Charlie Banacos and was involved in many projects on both parts: composing and performing with the best musicians of that time.
While living in Boston, Albert travelled a lot to New York and was greatly influenced by the new trends in music that took place at that time. All this time in America Albert felt the need to go back home to Israel and fulfill himself in his homeland and so in 1991 Albert finally returned to Israel with his wife and first son.

Since then, Albert is residing in Moshav Dor on the Mediterranean costal line, a father to three offsprings, creating and performing around the world in festivals and special projects.


Since his first album in 1995, he recorded six more albums while cooperating with the best musicians in Israel and the rest of the world. Musicians such as, Harold Robin, Asaf Sirkis, Gabriel Meyer, John Bostock, Hagi Fershtman, Roman Kontzman, Hammid Drake, William Parker, the composer Eric Shapira and the list goes on.
Today, Albert is continuously creating and updating and constantly busy with new projects.
In addition, since 2003 he teaches modules in Jazz music courses in the University of Haifa, guiding improvisation workshops for teenagers, and teaches sax and flute.



Albert’s music is influenced from the world and environment around him, while the Jazz music is the basis to all this. Furthermore, he combines and is influenced from Classical and Ethnic music, and tunes which come from Nature and the Soul.

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