Jorge Liderman

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Name Jorge Liderman		Role Composer
Died February 3, 2008, El Cerrito, California, United States Education University of Chicago (1988) Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada Similar People David Tanenbaum, Mario Davidovsky, Osvaldo Golijov

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Jorge Mario Liderman (November 16, 1957 – February 3, 2008) was an Argentine-born American composer. He was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship in 2003 and taught composition at the University of California, Berkeley.

Jorge Liderman- Aires de Sefarad #7

Life

Jorge Liderman was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1957. He studied at the Rubin School of Music in Jerusalem and earned a doctorate in composition from the University of Chicago in 1988. He joined the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley in 1989.

He died February 3, 2008 in an apparent suicide, struck by an incoming Richmond-bound train at the El Cerrito Plaza Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) station in El Cerrito.

Orchestral

Shir Eres (1984)

Song of Songs (2001), cantata for soprano, tenor, female chorus & chamber orchestra

Open Strings for guitar orchestra & electric bass

Operatic

Antigona Furiosa (1991), libretto by the composer after the drama by Griselda Gambaro, performed at the third Munich Biennale

Chamber

Aires de Sefarad (2004) - 46 Sephardic songs for Duo46, violin and guitar

Aires de Sefarad II (2007) - 46 Sephardic songs for Duo46, violin and guitar

Draft (1998) for piano, violin and tuned percussion

Furthermore. . . (2006) concerto for violin and chamber ensemble

Piano Quintet (2002)

Puncti, Belly, Etc., Etc... (1986)

String Quartet No. 1 (1985)

String Quartet No. 3 (1994)

Swirling Streams, for guitar, bass clarinet & string trio

That is already... for solo piano

Tropes IV (1994) for solo piano

Walking Dances for David Tanenbaum, guitar

Wind Up Toys for two pianos

Yzkor (1991)

References

Jorge Liderman Wikipedia

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