Yotam Haber
Artistic Director

Yotam Haber, 33, born in Holland and grew up in Israel, Nigeria, and Milwaukee. He has been a Fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center, the Aspen Music Festival and been in residence at the Aaron Copland House, the Atlantic Center for the Arts, Bellagio Rockefeller Foundation, Bogliasco, Yaddo and MacDowell Colonies. His music has been performed in prestigious halls throughout Germany, Italy, Ireland, Holland, and across the U.S. Haber resides in New York City and is a 2005 Guggenheim Fellow. Most recent performances include the Flux Quartet performing Torus in New York City’s Bargemusic, and the Knights Ensemble premiering A Wine-Dark Sea at the Brooklyn Lyceum, commissioned the MATA Festival, and hailed by the New Yorker magazine critic, Alex Ross as “deeply haunting.” He was a 2007-2008 Rome Prize Fellow in Music at the American Academy in Rome where he researched the music of the Jewish community of Rome as well as collaborating in Berlin with Bulgarian-American artist Daniel Bozhkov on the 30th anniversary of the first German in space; in Holland with Dutch artist Maria Barnas on a Stendhal Syndrome project; and in Switzerland with Pritzker Prize-winning architect Peter Zumthor on two chamber music works. Haber consequently received a 2009 Meet the Composer commission for a large-scale work for the NYC-based Knights Ensemble, to be premiered at the Baryshnikov Arts Center, NY on January 10th+11th. Haber will be a composer-in-residence at UCLA in May 2011.

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