Tzvi Avni

Tzvi Avni and Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer.

Tzvi Avni (first name sometimes spelled Zvi; Hebrew: צבי אבני; born Hermann Jakob Steinke 1927) is an Israeli composer.

Biography

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

In 2001, Avni was awarded the Israel Prize, for music.^[2][3] On September 11, 2012, Avni was made honorary citizen of Saarbrücken.^[4]

Notes

1. Bob Gluck, “Go Find Your Own Tricks!: Interview with Israeli Composer Tzvi Avni.”
2. "Israel Prize Official Site (in Hebrew) – Recipient’s C.V.".
3. "Israel Prize Official Site (in Hebrew) – Judges' Rationale for Grant to Recipient".
4. "Tzvi Avni Saarbrücker Ehrenbürger" (in German). Landeshauptstadt Saarbrücken. Retrieved 2012-09-29.

References

• 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

• Official webpage
• Tzvi Avni biography on The Israel Music Institute (IMI) website

See also

• List of Israel Prize recipients