Yehuda Yannay

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Yehuda Yannay

Yehuda Yannay (born May 26, 1937 in Timișoara ) is an Israeli composer.

Yannai came to Israel with his parents in 1951. He studied from 1960 to 1964 at the Tel Aviv Music Academy with Mordecai Seter and Alexander Uriah Boscovich , then until 1966 at Brandeis University in Waltham / Massachusetts with Harold Shapero and Ernst Krenek and between 1968 and 1970 at the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign . Since then he has taught at the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee

In 1971 he founded the Music From Almost Yesterday concert series , in which he performed classical compositions from the 20th century. He composed works for the stage, film and video music and pieces for chamber music.

Works

  • Cheleth for choir and electronic equipment
  • Play for five participants, aluminum sheets and Yannachord
  • Spheres for soprano, flute, clarinet, bass clarinet, harp, prepared piano and percussion instruments * evocations for medium voice and piano
  • Photomontage for tape and electronic music
  • Seven Late Spring Pieces for piano
  • Trio for clarinet, cello and piano
  • Duo for flute and cello
  • Nine Branches of the Olive Tree
  • In Madness There Is Order
  • In Between Us (with Jon Welstead )
  • Five Pieces for Three Players for soprano saxophone, clarinet and marimba
  • The Hidden Melody for horn and cello
  • In the Silver Forest for trombone, glass harmonica and tape
  • At the End of the Parade , six songs for baritone and chamber ensemble based on texts by William Carlos Williams

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personal data
SURNAME Yannay, Yehuda
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli composer
DATE OF BIRTH May 26, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Timișoara