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Name
  
Tzvi Avni

Role
  
Composer

Albums
  
Tzvi Avni


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Awards
  
EMET Prize in Culture and Arts

Similar People
  
Paul Ben‑Haim, Josef Tal, Noam Sheriff, Yehezkel Braun, Ella Milch‑Sheriff

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

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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.

Awards

In 2001, Avni was awarded the Israel Prize, for music. On September 11, 2012, Avni was made honorary citizen of Saarbrücken.

References

Tzvi Avni Wikipedia


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