Yotam Haber

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Portrait of Yotam Haber

Yotam Haber is a composer based in New York City. He is a 2005 Guggenheim fellow[1][2] and a 2007 Rome Prize winner in Music Composition.[3]

Biography

Yotam Haber was born in the Netherlands and grew up in Israel, Nigeria, and Milwaukee. He studied music composition at Indiana University with Eugene O'Brien and Claude Baker and then earned his doctorate at Cornell with Steven Stucky and Roberto Sierra.[4][5][6][7]

Haber has written music for leading new music ensembles and performers including Alarm Will Sound,[8] Gabriel Kahane,[9] Flux Quartet,[10] and The Knights (orchestra).[11] He has been a fellow at the Aspen Music Festival and Tanglewood Music Festival, and artist colonies including MacDowell Colony,[12] Yaddo,[13] Aaron Copland House,[14] and Bogliasco Center.[15]

Upcoming major projects include a commission for a concert length work, A More Convenient Season, for the Alabama Symphony Orchestra with chorus and soloists commemorating the 50th anniversary of an explosion that killed four in a Baptist church in Birmingham on September 15, 1963.[16]

In 2010 Haber was appointed the Artistic Director of the MATA Festival.[17][6] His work at the MATA festival was lauded by the New York Times as "a testament to MATA’s enduring mission and to the high standards maintained by its current directors, David T. Little and Yotam Haber."[18]

Haber's music has been well received, called "haunting" by New Yorker critic Alex Ross[19] and the New York Times[20]

Selected Works

  • LAST SKIN for 8 retuned violins[21]
  • We Were All for Sinfonietta[8]
  • I AM for Chorus and String Quartet[22]
  • On Leaving Brooklyn for Chorus, solo voices, and Violin[23]
  • New Ghetto Music for full orchestra, voice, and field recordings of Roman cantors from 1950-60[11]
  • between composure and seduction for baroque violin, double bass, percussion
  • Hvem er Det (who is it) for two sopranos and mezzo-soprano
  • A Wine Dark Sea for string orchestra (commissioned by The Knights Ensemble)[11]
  • death will come and she shall have your eyes for string orchestra, voice, field recordings of Roman cantors from 1940-1960
  • Espresso for Wind Ensemble[24]
  • Purity Guaranteed for violin and flute
  • Death in Venice for solo trumpet

Awards

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 http://www.newmusicbox.org/articles/2005-Guggenheim-Fellowships-Announced/
  2. ↑ http://www.gf.org/fellows
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 http://www.newmusicbox.org/articles/New-Music-News-Wire-2007-4-27/
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 http://www.yotamhaber.com
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 http://noextranotes.wordpress.com/2009/10/19/yotam-haber/
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 http://www.wqxr.org/#!/people/yotam-haber/
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 http://www.thedaysofyore.com/yotam_haber/
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 http://www.thesheldon.org/showdetail.asp?showID=536
  9. ↑ http://matafestival.org/2010/gabriel-kahane/
  10. ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/29/arts/music/29barg.html?pagewanted=print
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/14/arts/music/14round.html
  12. ↑ http://www.macdowellcolony.org/PR-ASCAP.pdf
  13. ↑ http://yaddo.org/yaddo/artistlinks.asp?hiddenaction=display&discipline=Composer&pagehead=Composers
  14. ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/11/nyregion/copland-slept-here.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm
  15. ↑ http://www.bfny.org/english/fellows.cfm
  16. ↑ http://www.al.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2012/04/composer_prepares_work_for_50t.html
  17. ↑ http://matafestival.org/about-mata/staff-board/yotam-haber/
  18. ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/23/arts/music/mata-festival-at-roulette-in-brooklyn.html
  19. ↑ http://www.newyorker.com/online/2007/04/16/070416on_ross#ixzz260JP3awp
  20. ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/16/arts/music/in-five-borough-songbook-20-composers-show-ny-review.html
  21. ↑ http://www.contemporaneous.org/About/Repertoire
  22. ↑ http://chambermusiciantoday.com/blog/posts/SONiC-Festival–Extended-Play-Marathon-at-Miller-Theatre/
  23. ↑ http://newyorklawschool.typepad.com/leonardlink/2012/01/the-five-borough-songbook-the-show-and-the-recording.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LeonardLink+(Leonard+Link)
  24. ↑ 24.0 24.1 http://www.newmusicbox.org/articles/Yotam-Haber-Wins-5000-ASCAP-CBDNA-Frederick-Fennell-Prize/

External links

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike; additional terms may apply for the media files.