Yotam Haber
Yotam Haber is a composer based in New Orleans. He is a 2005 Guggenheim fellow[1][2] and a 2007 Rome Prize winner in Music Composition.[3]
Biography
Yotam Haber was born October 27, 1976 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] In 2013 Haber married visual artist Anna Schuleit.[8]
Haber has written music for leading new music ensembles and performers including Alarm Will Sound,[9] Gabriel Kahane,[10] Flux Quartet,[11] and The Knights (orchestra).[12] He has been a fellow at the Aspen Music Festival and Tanglewood Music Festival, and artist colonies including MacDowell Colony,[13] Yaddo,[14] Aaron Copland House,[15] and Bogliasco Center.[16]
Recent 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.[17]
Haber served as the Artistic Director of the MATA Festival from 2010 to 2014.[6][18] 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."[19] During his final festival The New York Times further remarked "If there is one thing that sets the MATA Festival apart from many of the other contemporary-classical bounties New York regularly produces, it might be a robust international representation, which seems to have grown sharply since Yotam Haber — a Dutch-born global citizen and the festival’s artistic director from 2009 until this year — has been at the helm."[20]
Haber's music has been well received, called "haunting" by New Yorker critic Alex Ross[21] and the New York Times.[22] The New York Times called Haber's From the Book of Maintenance and Sustenance "Alluring" and "Engaging" adding that "Mr. Haber used the soulful lower register of the viola to expressive effect, and its higher register to create intriguing timbres. Fluttering trills unfolded over lone piano notes; bell-like descending piano chords were echoed by gently ascending viola motifs. The piece faded to an enigmatic whisper at the end."[23]
Selected Works
- LAST SKIN for 8 retuned violins[24]
- We Were All for Sinfonietta[9]
- I AM for Chorus and String Quartet[25]
- On Leaving Brooklyn for Chorus, solo voices, and Violin[26]
- New Ghetto Music for full orchestra, voice, and field recordings of Roman cantors from 1950-60[12]
- 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)[12]
- 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[27]
- Purity Guaranteed for violin and flute
- Death in Venice for solo trumpet
Awards
- 2007 Rome Prize [3]
- 2005 Guggenheim Fellowship [1]
- 2004 ASCAP/CBDNA Frederick Fennell Competition[27]
- 2002, 2004 ASCAP Morton Gould Award[4][5][6][7]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 http://www.newmusicbox.org/articles/2005-Guggenheim-Fellowships-Announced/
- ↑ http://www.gf.org/fellows
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 http://www.newmusicbox.org/articles/New-Music-News-Wire-2007-4-27/
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 http://www.yotamhaber.com
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 http://noextranotes.wordpress.com/2009/10/19/yotam-haber/
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 http://www.wqxr.org/#!/people/yotam-haber/
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 http://www.thedaysofyore.com/yotam_haber/
- ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/12/fashion/weddings/anna-schuleit-and-yotam-haber-vows.html?_r=0
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 http://www.thesheldon.org/showdetail.asp?showID=536
- ↑ http://matafestival.org/2010/gabriel-kahane/
- ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/29/arts/music/29barg.html?pagewanted=print
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/14/arts/music/14round.html
- ↑ http://www.macdowellcolony.org/PR-ASCAP.pdf
- ↑ http://yaddo.org/yaddo/artistlinks.asp?hiddenaction=display&discipline=Composer&pagehead=Composers
- ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/11/nyregion/copland-slept-here.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm
- ↑ http://www.bfny.org/english/fellows.cfm
- ↑ http://www.al.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2012/04/composer_prepares_work_for_50t.html
- ↑ http://matafestival.org/about-mata/staff-board/yotam-haber/
- ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/23/arts/music/mata-festival-at-roulette-in-brooklyn.html
- ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/18/arts/music/mata-festival-returns-with-spotlight-on-helsinki.html
- ↑ http://www.newyorker.com/online/2007/04/16/070416on_ross#ixzz260JP3awp
- ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/16/arts/music/in-five-borough-songbook-20-composers-show-ny-review.html
- ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/30/arts/music/at-the-stone-the-flux-quartet-flexes-its-muscles.html
- ↑ http://www.contemporaneous.org/About/Repertoire
- ↑ http://chambermusiciantoday.com/blog/posts/SONiC-Festival–Extended-Play-Marathon-at-Miller-Theatre/
- ↑ 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)
- ↑ 27.0 27.1 http://www.newmusicbox.org/articles/Yotam-Haber-Wins-5000-ASCAP-CBDNA-Frederick-Fennell-Prize/
External links
- http://www.YotamHaber.com
- http://www.thedaysofyore.com/yotam_haber/
- http://www.wqxr.org/#!/people/yotam-haber/
- http://seriousmusicmedia.com/?page_id=1831