Yehudi Wyner

Yehudi Wyner (born June 1, 1929 in Calgary ) is an American composer, pianist and music teacher.

Life

The son of the Russian-Jewish composer Lazar Weiner grew up in New York and graduated from the Juilliard School of Music in 1946 with a diploma in piano. He then studied at Yale University with Richard Donovan and Paul Hindemith and at Harvard University with Walter Piston . Winning a Rome Prize enabled him to study at the American Academy in Rome from 1953 to 1956 .

After his return to the USA, Wyner worked as a piano soloist, chamber musician and piano accompanist, conducted various chamber and vocal ensembles and was musical director of the Turnau Opera and the New Haven Opera Society . From 1963 to 1977 he taught (including composition) at Yale University , from 1975 to 1997 at the Berkshire Music Center in Tanglewood. In addition, he was professor at the State University of New York from 1978 to 1989 and dean of the music faculty for several years. He taught as a visiting professor at Cornell University from 1986 to 1987 and at Brandeis University from 1987 to 1988 , where he subsequently held the Walter W. Naumburg Professorship for Composition until 1991 and headed the Brandeis Contemporary Chamber Players . As composer-in-residence, he worked at the American Academy in Rome in 1991 and at the Rockefeller Center in Bellagio in 1998. His students included Robert Beaser , Chester Biscardi , Martin Brody , Donald Wheelock , Yu-Hui Chang , Laurie San Martin , Tom Johnson , Lewis Spratlan , Craig Walsh and Michael H. Weinstein .

Wyner composed more than 60 works, including pieces for orchestra, chamber music, songs and works for solo instruments as well as liturgical works. In 1998 he received the Elise Stoeger Award from the Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society for his chamber music work. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 2006 for his piano concerto Chiavi in mano , a work commissioned by the Boston Symphony Orchestra , which premiered in 2005 with Robert D. Levin . He has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1999 . In 2008 he was honored with admission to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . Wyner has been married to the singer Susan Davenny-Wyner since 1967 .

Works

Partita for piano (1952)

Piano Sonata (1954)

Da Camera for piano and orchestra (1967)

Prologue and narrative for cello and orchestra (1994)

Dvariations for wind octet (1953; 1959)

Concerto Duo for violin and piano (1955–1957)

Serenade for flute, horn, trumpet, trombone, viola, cello and piano (1958)

3 Informal Pieces for violin and piano (1961; 1969)

Friday Evening Service for Cantor and Choir (1963)

The Old Glory , incidental music (1964)

Torah Service for Choir and Instruments (1966)

The Mirror , incidental music (1972–1973)

Cadenza for clarinet and harpsichord (1969)

De novo for cello and ensemble (1971)

Memorial Music for soprano and three flutes (1971–1973)

Canto cantabile for soprano and band (1972)

Intermedio , lyric ballet for soprano and strings (1974)

Dances of Atonement for violin and piano (1976)

Intermedio , lyric ballet for soprano and string orchestra (1976)

Fragments from Antiquity for soprano and orchestra (1978–1981)

The Grass is High for voice and piano for (1979)

All the Rage for flute and piano (1980)

Romances for piano quartet (1980)

Tanz and Maissele for clarinet, violin, cello and piano (1981)

On This Most Voluptuous Night for soprano and chamber ensemble (1982)

Passage I for ensemble (1983)

Wind Quintet (1984)

String Quartet (1985)

Composition for viola and piano (1987)

Toward the Center for piano (1988)

Sweet Consort for flute and piano (1988)

To Be a Dragon for female choir (1989)

Trapunto Junction for trumpet, horn, trombone and percussion (1991)

Amadeus' billiard for violin, cello, double bass, bassoon and two horns (after Mozart's Divertimento No. 7, K. 205) (1991)

Prologue and Narrative for Cello and Orchestra (1994)

Lyric Harmony for orchestra (1995)

Epilogue for orchestra (1996)

Praise Ye the Lord , Psalm for soprano and ensemble (1996)

Horn Trio (1997)

Quartet for oboe and string trio (1999)

Madrigal for String Quartet (1999)

The Second Madrigal: Voices of Women (1999)

Tuscan Triptych: Echoes of Hannibal for string orchestra (2002)

Commedia for clarinet and piano (2003)

Chiavi in mano , piano concerto (2005)

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Individual evidence

↑ Academy Members. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed January 23, 2019 .

personal data
SURNAME	Wyner, Yehudi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American composer, pianist and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH	June 1, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH	Calgary

[1] Academy Members. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed January 23, 2019 .