Amnon Wolman

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Amnon Wolman ( Hebrew אמנון וולמן; * April 20, 1955 in Jerusalem ) is an Israeli composer.

Amnon Wolman is a son of the medical doctor Moshe Wolman (1914–2009). The film director Dan Wolman (* 1941) is his brother. After military service 1973-1976 Wolman worked in television and then began studying music at Tel Aviv University . In 1982 he continued his education at the Institute for Sonology of the Royal Conservatory of The Hague , 1983-84 he studied composition and computer music at Stanford University with John Chowning and Leland Smith .

From 1989 Wolman taught at Northwestern University in Chicago, where he directed the studio for computer music . In 1990 he took part in the New Music America event in Montreal with his first electro-acoustic composition Man-Bridge . In 1993 Don Giovanni Revisited premiered in Chicago. The production toured the US and was also performed in Israel. In 1994 the eleven-hour work Andy Warhol's Diaries was created , which was performed using input from the Internet.

Wolman had lectureships as a professor of composition a. a. at the Center for Computer Music of Brooklyn College , the Graduate Center of the City University of New York , at the Stanford University , at the University of California, Berkeley , and the University of Tel Aviv . Since 2006 he has been living in Israel again, where he directs the Musica Nova ensemble in Tel Aviv. In 2007 he became director of the School of Music Education at Levinsky College . In 2012 he was visiting professor at Harvard University and currently teaches as a professor at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance . In addition to electroacoustic works, Wolman also composed film and ballet music and created sound installations.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Akademie Schloss Solitude - Amnon Wolman
  2. ^ Allmusic - Amnon Wolman
  3. ^ CV at the Israel Music Institute
  4. ↑ Biography in the Israel Music Center
  5. ↑ Amnon Wolman at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance


personal data
SURNAME Wolman, Amnon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli composer
DATE OF BIRTH April 20, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Jerusalem