Tal Gur is an Israeli composer, saxophonist, vocalist, and multidisciplinary artist whose work bridges original music, poetry, improvisation, movement, and visual media. His musical identity emerged while watching aircraft take off and land at the air force base where he grew up in the pastoral Jezreel Valley. Like many reed players, he began with the recorder before discovering the saxophone, gradually teaching himself piano, guitar, bass, and drums. Drawn to improvisation, free expression, and poetry, he studied sound engineering in Tel Aviv before moving to Jerusalem to study at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance.

As a performer, Gur has developed a versatile voice spanning jazz, folk, rock, and Balkan music. He has appeared on stages throughout Israel, Europe, and the United States with ensembles including MarshDondurma, the Judy Lewis Quartet, and What Cheer? Brigade, and has collaborated with leading Israeli artists including Shlomo Gronich, Shlomo Yidov, Alon Oleartchik, Dan Toren, Shaanan Streett, and Efrat Gosh.

In 2007, Gur released his debut album, Air Portrait, an instrumental exploration of memory, imagination, and inner landscapes. In 2010 he relocated to New York, where he completed postgraduate training in music therapy at NYU while continuing to perform and compose. During this period he released Basar Ve’Dam (Flesh & Blood) (2011), Under Contractions (2014), and created Mind Crossing, a multidisciplinary work combining music, video, text, and dance, inspired by letters his grandfather wrote after the Holocaust and reflecting on memory, loss, and the reconstruction of life.

After returning to Jerusalem in 2020, Gur released Adam Adama (Man of the Earth) (2020) and Al Tira (Do Not Fear) (2025). His artistic practice has increasingly focused on interdisciplinary performances rooted in Hebrew poetry and Jewish cultural memory. His work Brothers, created with choreographer Alma Karvat-Shamesh and based on a poem by Dan Pagis, premiered at the Between Heaven and Earth Festival (2025) and was later presented at the Jerusalem Arts Festival. In the same year, he premiered Inside Skull Night, a multidisciplinary performance inspired by Pagis’s poem Brain, at the Transmit Festival at the Steinhardt Museum of Natural History, Tel Aviv University.

Gur is an alumnus of LABA New York, the Jewish laboratory for culture at the 14th Street Y, completed the Between the Lines writing workshop at Beit Avi Chai (2026), and is a member of the Asylum Arts network. He is also a member of the ensemble Las Piratas Piratas.

His current artistic research explores new musical approaches to Hebrew poetry, with a particular focus on the work of Dan Pagis and the dialogue between medieval Hebrew poetry, contemporary composition, and site-specific performance.