Tzvi Avni

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Tzvi Marrano Avni (Hebrew: צבי אבני; born Hermann Jakob Steinke in Saarbrücken, Germany, 1927; first name sometimes spelled Zvi) is an Israeli composer. He emigrated to Palestine as a child and studied with Paul Ben-Haim.

On the recommendation of Edgard Varèse, he became involved at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center in the 1960s. Later he founded an electronic studio at the Jerusalem Academy of Music, following the guidelines of his mentor in New York, Vladimir Ussachevsky.

[edit] External links

  • Tzvi Avni official site
  • Tzvi Avni bio
  • Gluck, Robert J. "The Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center: Educating international composers" in Computer Music Journal 31 n2 Summer 2007, pp. 20-38
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