Birth name Boris Ioffe Website Official website Occupation(s) Composer, writer Name Boris Yoffe | Instruments Violin, alt Role Composer · borisyoffe.de Years active 1991 - present | |
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Born December 21, 1968 (age 55)
Leningrad, USSR (Russia) ( 1968-12-21 ) Education Saint Petersburg Conservatory Albums Lirics from the Book of Quartets, Yoffe: Symphony Genres Symphony, Chamber music, Opera Similar People Rosamunde Quartett, Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Konstantin Lifschitz, Hilliard Ensemble, Wolfgang Rihm | ||
Boris Yoffe | Symphony | “Herbstabend” (Official Audio)
Boris Yoffe (born 21 December 1968 in St. Petersburg) is a Russian-born Israeli composer, resident of Karlsruhe, Germany.
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Biography
Boris Yoffe initially studied violin but turned to composing early, premiering his first works in the St. Petersburg Philharmonic in 1983.
He emigrated to Israel before the break-up of Soviet Union, and completed his composition studies at the Rubin Academy of Music at Tel Aviv University. Later he moved to Karlsruhe, Germany to study with Wolfgang Rihm in 1997. Around that time, the composer began composing a series of short one-page pieces for string quartet. These were given a performance at ZKM in Karlsruhe in May 2003 and recorded on the ECM label by the Rosamunde Quartett with the Hilliard Ensemble.
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