Avner Dorman
Avner Dorman (born April 14, 1975 in Tel Aviv ) is an Israeli composer .
Career
Dorman studied composition in Tel Aviv, among others with Josef Bardanashvili . After publishing several musical works, Dorman received the Israeli Prime Minister's Award for composition at the age of 25 . In 2003 Dorman continued his studies at the Juilliard School of Music in New York with John Corigliano and graduated with a doctorate.
Dorman has already presented numerous compositions in various genres, such as orchestral works, concerts and chamber music, but also film music and a concerto for violin and rock band. His best-known work to date is the Concerto for Percussion and Orchestra Frozen in Time , which has been replayed several times since its premiere in December 2007. The symphonic poem Uriah : The Man the King Wanted Dead , commissioned by the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra , premiered in 2011.
Dorman's compositions are mostly tonal, with the use of exotic instruments and tone scales. Dorman has received several music awards.
Awards
- 2000 Israeli Prime Minister's Award
- 2000 Israeli ACUM Prize for the Ellef Symphony.
- 2002 Prize of the Israeli Ministry of Culture for the song cycle Boaz
- in the USA he was awarded the ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer's Award three times
Works
Operas
- Wahnfried (composed in 2016 on behalf of the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe , text: Lutz Hübner , Sarah Nemitz ; premiere January 28, 2017)
Concerts and symphonic works
- Concerto in A (1995)
- Concerto for violin and rock band (1998)
- Ellef Symphony (2000)
- Piccolo Concerto (2001)
- Saxophone concert (2003)
- Variations Without a Theme (WP 2003 with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra under Zubin Mehta )
- Concerto Grosso (2003)
- Mandolin Concert (2006)
- Spices, Perfumes, Toxins! for two percussionists and large orchestra (WP 2006 under Zubin Mehta)
- Frozen in Time , concerto for percussion and orchestra (2006/07, premier on December 2nd and 3rd, 2007) with the Hamburg Philharmonic under Simone Young and Martin Grubinger as soloist. Further performances with the soloist Grubinger took place on 24/26. January 2008 under Juraj Valcuha with the Munich Philharmonic. The US premiere of the work with the Kansas City Symphony Orchestra , again with Grubinger as the soloist, took place at the end of April 2011.
- Lost Souls , Concerto for Piano and Orchestra (2009)
- Astrolatry (2010)
- Uriah: The Man the King Wanted Dead (2009, WP 2011)
- Cello Concerto (2012)
- Uzu and Muzu from Kakaruzu (2012)
- Dialogues of Love (2014)
- After Brahms (2015)
- Siclon (2015)
Film and ballet music
- Ben (1997)
- Accord / Discord (1999)
- "Falafel" (2001)
- Impact (2006)
- Wonderland (2013)
- Past Life (2016) - "The Concert"
Chamber music
- Tree-yO! (1996)
- Trio (2001)
- String Quartet No. 1 (2003)
- String Quartet No. 2 (2004)
- Sonata No. 1 for violin and piano (2004)
- Jerusalem Mix for oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn and piano (2007)
- Sonata No. 2 for violin and piano (2008)
- Prayer for the Innocents for two string quartets (2009)
- Nigunim, Sonata No. 3 for violin and piano (2011)
- Memory Games, for violin and piano (2012)
- Mantra (2013)
- Consumed for percussion quartet (2014)
- Sonata No. 4 for violin and piano (2014)
- How to Love for guitar and string quartet
- Variations on a Simple Theme for flute, viola and harp (2016)
- Four Marimbas for percussion quartet (2017)
Piano music
- Prelude No. 1 (1992)
- Piano Sonata No. 1 (1999)
- Piano Sonata No. 2 (2000)
- Moments Musicaux (2003)
- Azerbaijani Dance (2005)
- Piano Sonata No. 3 - Dance Suite (2005)
- Dance Suite (2005)
- Nocturne Insomniaque (2007)
- Piano Sonata No. 4 - Libi Bamizrach (2011)
- Three Etudes (2012)
- Karsilama for two pianos (2012)
- After Brahms (2014)
- Piano Sonata No. 5 (2017)
- For a Friend I Never Knew (2017)
Vocal music
- Boaz, song cycle (2002)
- Psalm 67 (2004)
- The fear of men (2006), based on two poems by Ronen Altman Kaydar
- Letters from Gettysburg (2012), choral work
Others
- Uzu and Muzu from Kakaruzu (2011), a rhythmic fairy tale from Israel for a narrator, two percussionists and an orchestra
literature
Kerstin Schüssler-Bach, in: Program of the Philharmoniker Hamburg from 2/3. December 2007
Web links
- Dorman's Homepage ( Memento from November 16, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- Biography and list of works
- Avner Dorman, biography ( memento from February 20, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF file; 47 kB)
- Complete list of works
Individual evidence
- ↑ Description of the "Uriah" ( Memento from August 9, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ concert review by John Heuertz of 30 April 2011 in "The Kansas City Star" ( Memento of 1 March 2014 Internet Archive ) (PDF, 65 kB)
- ^ Review by Michael Huebner in The Birmingham News
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Dorman, Avner |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Israeli composer |
DATE OF BIRTH | April 14, 1975 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Tel Aviv |