Avner Strauss (Hebrew: אבנר שטראוס) (born 1954 in Jerusalem, Israel) is an Israeli music producer, musician, guitarist singer/songwriter and poet.Drawn to jazz guitar, Avner went to Boston in 1975 to study at the Berklee College of Music (Composition, graduated in 1978).Although he started out as an Avant Garde guitarist in Jerusalem in the late 1960s, today Strauss plays jazz, flamenco, classical, folk, bluegrass and blues guitar.Avner also produced an instrumental guitar album ("Courtyard", MCI records 1990) that highlights his many different musical facets and playing styles.Avner Strauss poems have been published in various magazines among these are; Mantis 1976, April 2010, February 2011 issues of Moznaim and in the Jewish poetry anthology "Voices Within the Ark"[4] along with poems by his grandfather de:Ludwig Strauss and great grandfather Martin Buber.
Avner Strauss on L.P. cover of
On a Slow Flame
In Jerusalem Heavens are Nearer
CD cover
Album Cover Equator Avner Strauss
Blues Ha'or Haganuz /Avner Strauss (2014)The double album front cover
