 Yotam Haber, 33, was born in Holland and is a citizen of Israel and the United States. He grew up in Milwaukee, and attended Indiana University, studying with Eugene O’Brien and Claude Baker. He completed a doctorate in composition at Cornell University in 2004, studying with Roberto Sierra and Steven Stucky. He spent 2000 in Bologna, Italy, as part of the Course on Use of Live Electronics, taught by Alvise Vidolin (Luigi Nono’s sound engineer) and the composer Adriano Guarnieri. He received a 2002 ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Award for his chamber orchestra work, In Sleep a King, and one in 2004 for his double clarinet quintet, Blur. In 2004, he also won the second bi-annual ASCAP/CBDNA Frederick Fennell Prize for the wind ensemble work, Espresso, which was performed at Carnegie Hall by Rutgers Wind Ensemble, directed by William Berz, and consequently recorded for release in the fall of 2006. He has been a Fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center (studying with George Benjamin and Osvaldo Golijov), the Aspen Music Festival (studies with Chris Rouse and Nicholas Maw), and been in residence at the Aaron Copland House, and the Atlantic Center for the Arts. His music has been performed in Germany, Italy, Holland, and across the U.S. Haber currently resides in New York City and Rome and is a 2005 Guggenheim Fellow. Haber received the 2007-2008 Frederic A. Juilliard/ Walter Damrosch Rome Prize and resided at the American Academy in Rome for a year beginning in September 2007. He has recently been commissioned by architect Peter Zumthor and his wife Annalisa to compose two works for premiere in Vals, Switzerland, 2009. From the American Composers Forum and the Jerome Composers Commissioning Program, he received a commission to write for MAYA. In March-May 2009, he was in residence at the MacDowell Colony. He has received a commission from Meet the Composer to write a new chamber orchestra piece for the NYC-based Knights Ensemble. Received a fellowship from the Rockefeller Foundation for a residency at the Bellagio Center, spring 2010.
RECENT PERFORMANCES July 17-18 Colorado Symphony Orchestra/ACO reading session of forward ornament June 20, 2009 premiere of Between Composure and Seduction (baroque violin, double bass, percussion) by Maya Homburger, Barry Guy, and Peter Conradin Zumthor; and a new work for 3 female voices in Vals, Switzerland. October 16, 2008 performance of for harvey and paul (flute and guitar duo) at the Villa Aurelia, American Academy in Rome August 4, 2008 performance of Torus in Sardegna, Chiostro di S. Francesco di Alghero June 27, 2008 Italian premiere of Torus by the Paul Klee Quartet, Venice, Palazzo Albrizzi May 31, 2008 World premiere of death will come and she shall have your eyes at the Villa Aurelia, American Academy in Rome May 27, 29, 30, 2007 World premiere of Torus performed by the Flux Quartet at Bargemusic. May 17th and 18th, 2007 A Wine-Dark Sea performed by The Knights at Bargemusic February 6, 2007 Purity Guaranteed performed by members of BMOP (Boston Modern Orchestra Project), Sarah Brady and Charles Dimmick. March 18, 2007 Three Piano Etudes premiered by Augustus Arnone at Merkin Hall in NYC. March 23, 2007 Premiere of A Wine-Dark Sea commissioned by Music At The Anthology (MATA) performed by The Knights, in New York City, Brooklyn Lyceum. |