Dror Feiler
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Dror Feiler (b. 1950) is a musician and artist. Though born in Tel Aviv, Israel, he has been living in Stockholm, Sweden since 1973. He is married to the artist Gunilla Sköld-Feiler.
Feiler studied new music and its interpretation at the Fylkingen Institut for New Music 1975-1977, musicology at the University of Stockholm 1977-1978 and composition at the Music Academy of Stockholm with G. Buckt, S.D. Sandström and B. Ferneyhough 1978-1983.
Feiler's father worked on a kibbutz and met a group of Palestinians in Bucharest in 1986 while it was still illegal and he was also sentenced to prison for it. His 80-year-old mother works with mobile health centrals in Palestinian villages in the West Bank that have no other access to health-care and other services.
Feiler served as a paratrooper in the Israeli army, but defected in 1973 as one of the first "refuseniks". He is currently the president of both Jews for Israeli-Palestinian Peace and European Jews for a Just Peace.
Feiler also plays saxophone in the jazz band Lokomotiv Konkret, and founded The Too Much Too Soon Orchestra. In January 2004 he made international news with his artwork Snow White and The Madness of Truth, which was vandalized by Zvi Mazel, who was at that time the Israeli ambassador to Sweden.
Feiler is now the Chairman of a Federation called EJJP (European Jews for a Just Peace) which works for as the name states a just peace in the missle east.
He is active as a composer of modern music , which includes composition music for symphonic orchestras, opera, chamber music and electro-acoustic music.
