Yotam Haber

Portrait of Yotam Haber

Yotam Haber is a composer based in New Orleans. He is a 2005 Guggenheim fellow[1][2] and a 2007 Rome Prize winner in Music Composition.[3]

Biography

Yotam Haber was born October 27, 1976 in the Netherlands and grew up in Israel, Nigeria, and Milwaukee. He studied music composition at Indiana University with Eugene O'Brien and Claude Baker and then earned his doctorate at Cornell with Steven Stucky and Roberto Sierra.[4][5][6][7] In 2013 Haber married visual artist Anna Schuleit.[8]

Haber has written music for leading new music ensembles and performers including Alarm Will Sound,[9] Gabriel Kahane,[10] Flux Quartet,[11] and The Knights (orchestra).[12] He has been a fellow at the Aspen Music Festival and Tanglewood Music Festival, and artist colonies including MacDowell Colony,[13] Yaddo,[14] Aaron Copland House,[15] and Bogliasco Center.[16]

Recent major projects include a commission for a concert length work, A More Convenient Season, for the Alabama Symphony Orchestra with chorus and soloists commemorating the 50th anniversary of an explosion that killed four in a Baptist church in Birmingham on September 15, 1963.[17]

Haber served as the Artistic Director of the MATA Festival from 2010 to 2014.[6][18] His work at the MATA festival was lauded by the New York Times as "a testament to MATA’s enduring mission and to the high standards maintained by its current directors, David T. Little and Yotam Haber."[19] During his final festival The New York Times further remarked "If there is one thing that sets the MATA Festival apart from many of the other contemporary-classical bounties New York regularly produces, it might be a robust international representation, which seems to have grown sharply since Yotam Haber — a Dutch-born global citizen and the festival’s artistic director from 2009 until this year — has been at the helm."[20]

Haber's music has been well received, called "haunting" by New Yorker critic Alex Ross[21] and the New York Times.[22] The New York Times called Haber's From the Book of Maintenance and Sustenance "Alluring" and "Engaging" adding that "Mr. Haber used the soulful lower register of the viola to expressive effect, and its higher register to create intriguing timbres. Fluttering trills unfolded over lone piano notes; bell-like descending piano chords were echoed by gently ascending viola motifs. The piece faded to an enigmatic whisper at the end."[23]

Selected Works

Awards

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 http://www.newmusicbox.org/articles/2005-Guggenheim-Fellowships-Announced/
  2. ↑ http://www.gf.org/fellows
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 http://www.newmusicbox.org/articles/New-Music-News-Wire-2007-4-27/
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 http://www.yotamhaber.com
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 http://noextranotes.wordpress.com/2009/10/19/yotam-haber/
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 http://www.wqxr.org/#!/people/yotam-haber/
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 http://www.thedaysofyore.com/yotam_haber/
  8. ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/12/fashion/weddings/anna-schuleit-and-yotam-haber-vows.html?_r=0
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 http://www.thesheldon.org/showdetail.asp?showID=536
  10. ↑ http://matafestival.org/2010/gabriel-kahane/
  11. ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/29/arts/music/29barg.html?pagewanted=print
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/14/arts/music/14round.html
  13. ↑ http://www.macdowellcolony.org/PR-ASCAP.pdf
  14. ↑ http://yaddo.org/yaddo/artistlinks.asp?hiddenaction=display&discipline=Composer&pagehead=Composers
  15. ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/11/nyregion/copland-slept-here.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm
  16. ↑ http://www.bfny.org/english/fellows.cfm
  17. ↑ http://www.al.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2012/04/composer_prepares_work_for_50t.html
  18. ↑ http://matafestival.org/about-mata/staff-board/yotam-haber/
  19. ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/23/arts/music/mata-festival-at-roulette-in-brooklyn.html
  20. ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/18/arts/music/mata-festival-returns-with-spotlight-on-helsinki.html
  21. ↑ http://www.newyorker.com/online/2007/04/16/070416on_ross#ixzz260JP3awp
  22. ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/16/arts/music/in-five-borough-songbook-20-composers-show-ny-review.html
  23. ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/30/arts/music/at-the-stone-the-flux-quartet-flexes-its-muscles.html
  24. ↑ http://www.contemporaneous.org/About/Repertoire
  25. ↑ http://chambermusiciantoday.com/blog/posts/SONiC-Festival–Extended-Play-Marathon-at-Miller-Theatre/
  26. ↑ http://newyorklawschool.typepad.com/leonardlink/2012/01/the-five-borough-songbook-the-show-and-the-recording.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LeonardLink+(Leonard+Link)
  27. ↑ 27.0 27.1 http://www.newmusicbox.org/articles/Yotam-Haber-Wins-5000-ASCAP-CBDNA-Frederick-Fennell-Prize/

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