Yehudi Wyner

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Yehudi Wyner is an American composer, pianist, conductor, and music educator. Although Wyner was born in Calgary in 1929, he was raised in New York City.

Wyner grew up in a musical family led by his father, Lazar Weiner, the preeminent composer of Yiddish art songs. Wyner himself has written in a variety of genres, including compositions for orchestra, chamber ensembles, solo voice, and solo instruments, as well as theatrical music and settings of the Jewish liturgy for worship. Among his best-known works are the Friday Evening Service (1963) for cantor and chorus, and On This Most Voluptuous Night (1982) for soprano and chamber ensemble.

Wyner taught for fourteen years at Yale University, where he was head of the Composition faculty. He also taught at SUNY Purchase, Cornell University, Brandeis University and Harvard University.

Yehudi Wyner is the 2006 recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Music for his Piano Concerto: 'Chiavi in Mano'. [1] [2]

Contents 1 Selected works 2 Degrees 3 Notable Students 4 References

[edit] Selected works

• Partita - for piano, 1952
• Concert duo for violin and piano (1956)
• Serenade for flute, horn, trumpet, trombone, viola, ’cello, piano (1958)
• The Mirror (1972-3)
• Intermedio - Lyric ballet for soprano and strings - October 1974
• The Grass is High - for voice and piano (1979)
• String quartet (1984-1985)
• Amadeus’ billiard : for violin, viola, bass, bassoon and 2 horns : (cf. Mozart-- Divertimento no. 7, K. 205) (1991)
• Prologue and narrative : for cello and orchestra (1994)
• Horntrio (1997)
• The second madrigal: Voices of women (1999)
• Quartet for oboe and stringtrio (1999) ([3])
• Commedia : for clarinet in B♭ and piano (2003)

[edit] Degrees

• Yale University, M.Mus. (1953)
• Harvard University, M.A. (1952)
• Yale University, B.Mus. (1951)
• Yale University, B.A. (1950)
• Juilliard School, Diploma (1946)

[edit] Notable Students

• Craig Walsh

[edit] References

• Composer's homepage
• Biography from the Milken Archive of American Jewish Music
• Biography from Schirmer Inc. Associated Music Publishers
• Faculty profile from Brandeis University