Tzvi Avni
Tzvi Jacob Avni (first name sometimes spelled Zvi; Hebrew: צבי אבני; born Hermann Jakob Steinke, September 2, 1927; Saarbrücken) is an Israeli composer.
Biography[edit]
Tzvi Avni was born in Saarbrücken, Germany, and emigrated to Mandate Palestine as a child. He studied with Paul Ben-Haim.
On the recommendation of Edgard Varèse, he became involved with the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center in the 1960s. Later he founded an electronic studio at the Jerusalem Academy of Music, following the guidelines of his mentor in New York, Vladimir Ussachevsky.[1]
Awards[edit]
In 2001, Avni was awarded the Israel Prize, for music.[2][3] On September 11, 2012, Avni was made an honorary citizen of Saarbrücken.[4]
Notes[edit]
- ^ Bob Gluck, “Go Find Your Own Tricks!: Interview with Israeli Composer Tzvi Avni.”
- ^ "Israel Prize Official Site (in Hebrew) – Recipient's C.V."
- ^ "Israel Prize Official Site (in Hebrew) – Judges' Rationale for Grant to Recipient".
- ^ "Tzvi Avni Saarbrücker Ehrenbürger" (in German). Landeshauptstadt Saarbrücken. Archived from the original on 2014-04-12. Retrieved 2012-09-29.
References[edit]
- Gluck, Bob. “Go Find Your Own Tricks!: Interview with Israeli Composer Tzvi Avni.” eContact! 14.4 — TES 2011: Toronto Electroacoustic Symposium / Symposium électroacoustique de Toronto (March 2013). Montréal: CEC.
- Gluck, Robert J. “The Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center: Educating international composers.” Computer Music Journal 31/2 (Summer 2007), pp. 20–38.
External links[edit]
- Official webpage
- Tzvi Avni biography on The Israel Music Institute (IMI) website
- "Tzvi Avni" in Ronit Seter, "Israeli Art Music", on Oxford Bibliographies (accessed 2 April, 2024)
- Tzvi Avni and Friedrich Spangemacher in a Zoom Interview with Ronit Seter
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