 Yotam Haber, 30, was born in Holland and is a citizen of Israel and the United States. He grew up in Milwaukee, and attended Indiana University, studying with Eugene O’Brien and Claude Baker. He completed a doctorate in composition at Cornell University in 2004, studying with Roberto Sierra and Steven Stucky. He spent 2000 in Bologna, Italy, as part of the Course on Use of Live Electronics, taught by Alvise Vidolin (Luigi Nono’s sound engineer) and the composer Adriano Guarnieri. He received a 2002 ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Award for his chamber orchestra work, In Sleep a King, and one in 2004 for his double clarinet quintet, Blur. In 2004, he also won the second bi-annual ASCAP/CBDNA Frederick Fennell Prize for the wind ensemble work, Espresso, which was performed at Carnegie Hall by Rutgers Wind Ensemble, directed by William Berz, and consequently recorded for release in the fall of 2006. He has been a Fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center (studying with George Benjamin and Osvaldo Golijov), the Aspen Music Festival (studies with Chris Rouse and Nicholas Maw), and been in residence at the Aaron Copland House, and the Atlantic Center for the Arts. His music has been performed in Germany, Italy, Holland, and across the U.S. Haber currently resides in New York City and is a 2005 Guggenheim Fellow. Haber received the 2007-2008 Frederic A. Juilliard/ Walter Damrosch Rome Prize and will reside in the American Academy in Rome for a year beginning in September 2007.
UPCOMING PERFORMANCES May 27, 29, 30, 2007 World premiere of Torus to be performed by the Flux Quartet at Bargemusic. May 17th and 18th, 2007 A Wine-Dark Sea to be performed by The Knights at Bargemusic February 6, 2007 Purity Guaranteed will be performed by members of BMOP (Boston Modern Orchestra Project), Sarah Brady and Charles Dimmick. March 18, 2007 Three Piano Etudes will be premiered by Augustus Arnone at Merkin Hall in NYC. March 23, 2007 Premiere of A Wine-Dark Sea commissioned by Music At The Anthology (MATA) to be performed by The Knights in March 2007 in New York City, Brooklyn Lyceum. |