Yehudi wyner biography definition

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  • The Canadian-born American composer, pianist, conductor, and music educator, Yehudi Wyner (real name, Weiner), was born in Western Canada, but.
  • For nearly a half century Yehudi Wyner has been recognized as one of America's most gifted composers.

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    Tants and Maysele for violin, clarinet, cello and piano (1981)

     

    Tants and Maysele* for violin, cello, clarinet, and piano was written in the early fall of 1981 for the Aeolian Chamber Players. The leader of the Aeolians, violinist Lewis Kaplan, asked me to write a piece with a distinct Jewish profile and I was happy to undertake the assignment. In past years I had written a number of compositions that sought to synthesize contemporary aesthetic and technical thought with musical elements of clearly identifiable Jewish character. Turns of melody, dance rhythms, cadential figures, typical sonorities of an instrumental or ensemble nature, emerging from a body of various musics historically connected with Jewish life, were important elements in those pieces I intended to be characteristically Jewish. That much of the material was close at hand and second nature to me will come as no surprise to those who know that

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    Wyner was born in Western Canada and grew up in New York City in a musical family. His father, Lazar Weiner, was the preeminent composer of Yiddish Art Song as well as a notable creator of liturgical music for the modern synagogue. This early exposure paved the way for a Diploma in piano from The Juilliard School and further musical studies at Yale and Harvard Universities with composers Richard Donovan, Walter Piston, and Paul Hindemith. A Handel course at Harvard brought Wyner to the attention of Randall Thompson, who became a staunch supporter and friend. In 1953, Wyner won the Rome Prize in Composition enabling him to spend the next three years at the American Academy in Rome, composing, performing, and traveling. Since then, he has received many honors including the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in Music for his Piano concerto "Chiavi in mano," two Guggenheim Fellowships, a grant from the American Institute of Arts and Letters, and the Brandeis Creative Arts Award. In 1998,
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    Wyner, Yehudi

    Wyner, Yehudi, Canadian-born American composer, pianist, ledare, and teacher, son of Lazar Weiner; b. Calgary, June 1, 1929. He studied at the Juilliard School of Music in N.Y. (graduated, 1946), with Donovan and Hindemith at Yale Univ. (A.B., 1950; B.Mus., 1951; M.Mus., 1953), and with Piston at Harvard Univ. (M.A., 1952). After working at the American Academy in Rome (1953-56), he was active in N.Y. as a pianist and conductor. He served as music director of the Turnau musikdrama, a repertory company, from 1961 to 1964, and of the New Haven Opera from 1968 to 1977. He joined the faculty of the Yale Univ. School of Music in 1963 and taught there until 1977, and also was chairman of its composition faculty for several years. In 1968 he was appointed keyboard artist for the Bach Aria Group. From 1975 to 1997 he was on the piano and chamber music faculty of the Tanglewood Music Center. He also was prof, of music at the State Univ. of N.Y. at Purchase from 1978 to 1989,