He was a tenor saxophone musician who was born in Israel. He attended the Thelma Yellin high school and the Rimon School of Jazz and Contemporary Music, both in Tel Aviv. He was awarded a full scholarship in 2011 to the Berklee College of Music and a bachelor’s in jazz performance in 2013. Bill Pierce, Hal Crook and George Garzone were his Boston teachers. After graduating from Berklee College Rotem was one of seven musicians chosen by Herbie Hancock and Jimmy Heath to be part of the two-year Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Performance Masters’ Program Class 2016. This program is offered at UCLA’s Herb Alpert school of Music. Rotem was a student at Berklee College and performed at the White House, Washington DC, Kennedy Center, and at the Hollywood Bowl Playboy Jazz Festival, along with Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, and Wayne Shorter. Be Nice was his debut album. Serenading the Future, a 2CD box, followed one year later. Rotem has performed with musicians such as Dee Dee Bridgewater and Dave Liebman, Stevie Wonders, Stevie Wonders, Stevie Wonders, Stevie Wonders, Usher, India Arie and Miguel Atwood–Ferguson on four continents. He is a Gottsu mouthpieces artist and was a America-Israel Cultural Foundation scholarship recipient (in 2010-2012 and 2014-2016). He teaches at the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts. From www.anaklasis.pl
