Avner Dorman

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Description of the "Uriah" ( Memento from August 9, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ concert review by John Heuertz of 30 April 2011 in "The Kansas City Star" ( Memento of 1 March 2014 Internet Archive ) (PDF, 65 kB)
  3. ^ Review by Michael Huebner in The Birmingham News
personal data
SURNAME Dorman, Avner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli composer
DATE OF BIRTH April 14, 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Tel Aviv