ANNOUNCING THE U.S. PREMIERE OF
AVNER DORMAN’S
PICCOLO CONCERTO
PERFORMED BY LIOR EITAN AND THE SAN DIEGO CHAMBER ORCHESTRA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 13th AT THE NATIONAL FLUTE ASSOCIATION CONVENTION
July 25, 2005 (Press Release) --
Avner Dorman, a laureate of Israel’s prestigious Prime Minister’s Award and the youngest composer on the G. Schirmer roster, will premiere his award-winning Piccolo Concerto at the Gala Concert of the National Flute Association convention to be held at 8:00 p.m. on Saturday, August 13, 2005 at the Town and Country Resort and Convention Center, in San Diego, California. Piccolo Concerto will be performed by Lior Eitan (piccolo player of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra), and the San Diego Chamber Orchestra, led by conductor Timothy Hankewich.
Israeli-American composer Avner Dorman has quickly risen to become one of Israel's most successful and renowned composers. At the age of 25, he became the youngest composer to win Israel's prestigious Prime Minister's Award. In 2001, Dorman received the ACUM prize from the Israeli performing rights society for his Ellef Symphony. Ma'ariv, the second largest newspaper in Israel, named Dorman "Composer of the Year" for 2002, and the performance of his song cycle Boaz received the Israeli Cultural Ministry Prize for best performance of Israeli music the same year. Dorman's Variations Without a Theme, premiered by Zubin Mehta and the Israel Philharmonic in November 2003, won the 2004 – “Best Composition of the Year” award from ACUM. In April 2006, Mehta will lead the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and the percussion duo Percadu in the premiere of Dorman’s new percussion concerto, Spices, Perfumes, Toxins!
Born in 1975, Dorman completed his Master's degree as a full scholarship student in the Adi Lautman Interdisciplinary Program for Fostering Excellence at Tel Aviv University. He majored in music, musicology, and physics and studied with former Soviet composer Josef Bardanashvili. Currently, he is a C.V. Starr fellow in the Doctoral program of the Juilliard School of Music, where he studies with acclaimed composer John Corigliano. Since his arrival in the United States, Dorman was thrice awarded the ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer's Award and he has been a composition fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center. Dorman's music has been praised as "outstanding for its freshness and spontaneity" (Jerusalem Post), with "craftsmanship [and] musical power" (Berliner Zeitung).
Recent works include: String Quartet No. 2 - Mirage, performed by the Jerusalem Quartet (who will present the New York premiere at the 92nd St. Y on April 29, 2006), and Dance Suite, a solo piano work commissioned by 21st Century Classical Corporation and premiered by Soheil Nasseri on March 19, 2005 at Alice Tully Hall.
Performances of Dorman's work in the 2003-2004 season included his first violin sonata at Weill Recital Hall; Udacrep Akubrad performed by the percussion duo Percadu at Festival Miami 2003 and, later on in the season, with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra; Concerto Grosso performed by the Ashdod Chamber Orchestra; Psalm 67 commissioned and performed by the Seraphim Singers in Boston; and a ballet based on his String Quartet No. 1 performed by the Florence Dance Company at the Teatro Goldoni, Florence.
Israeli-American composer Avner Dorman has quickly risen to become one of Israel's most successful and renowned composers. At the age of 25, he became the youngest composer to win Israel's prestigious Prime Minister's Award. In 2001, Dorman received the ACUM prize from the Israeli performing rights society for his Ellef Symphony. Ma'ariv, the second largest newspaper in Israel, named Dorman "Composer of the Year" for 2002, and the performance of his song cycle Boaz received the Israeli Cultural Ministry Prize for best performance of Israeli music the same year. Dorman's Variations Without a Theme, premiered by Zubin Mehta and the Israel Philharmonic in November 2003, won the 2004 – “Best Composition of the Year” award from ACUM. In April 2006, Mehta will lead the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and the percussion duo Percadu in the premiere of Dorman’s new percussion concerto, Spices, Perfumes, Toxins!
Born in 1975, Dorman completed his Master's degree as a full scholarship student in the Adi Lautman Interdisciplinary Program for Fostering Excellence at Tel Aviv University. He majored in music, musicology, and physics and studied with former Soviet composer Josef Bardanashvili. Currently, he is a C.V. Starr fellow in the Doctoral program of the Juilliard School of Music, where he studies with acclaimed composer John Corigliano. Since his arrival in the United States, Dorman was thrice awarded the ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer's Award and he has been a composition fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center. Dorman's music has been praised as "outstanding for its freshness and spontaneity" (Jerusalem Post), with "craftsmanship [and] musical power" (Berliner Zeitung).
Recent works include: String Quartet No. 2 - Mirage, performed by the Jerusalem Quartet (who will present the New York premiere at the 92nd St. Y on April 29, 2006), and Dance Suite, a solo piano work commissioned by 21st Century Classical Corporation and premiered by Soheil Nasseri on March 19, 2005 at Alice Tully Hall.
Performances of Dorman's work in the 2003-2004 season included his first violin sonata at Weill Recital Hall; Udacrep Akubrad performed by the percussion duo Percadu at Festival Miami 2003 and, later on in the season, with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra; Concerto Grosso performed by the Ashdod Chamber Orchestra; Psalm 67 commissioned and performed by the Seraphim Singers in Boston; and a ballet based on his String Quartet No. 1 performed by the Florence Dance Company at the Teatro Goldoni, Florence.
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