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COMPOSERS
Arnt H. Aanesen
Juan M. Abras
Firudin Allahverdi
Aaron Alon
Samuel Andreyev
Yvette Audain
Svitlana Azarova
David Balasanyan
Stephen M. Barchan
Tiziano Bedetti
Sebastien Beranger
Christophe Bertrand
Linda Buckley
Oscar Carmona
Aaron Cassidy
Luiz E. Casteloes
Paul Clift
Silvia Colasanti
Quinn Collins
Claire Cowan
Jonathan Crehan
Brian Current
Adrian Democ
Ivan Elezovic
Miguel Farias
Stephen Feigenbaum
Aaron Gervais
Alicia Grant
Raffaele Grimaldi
Gilad Hochman
Sungji Hong
Daria Jablonska
Markku Klami
Jana Kmitova
Elia Koussa
Ulrich Kreppein
Ulo Krigul
Felipe Lara
Mart-Matis Lill
Rodrigo Lima
Goncalo Lourenco
Robinson McClellan
Ilona Mesko
Kate Moore
Russell Nadel
Sarah Nemtsov
Alek Nowak
Yoshiaki Onishi
Christian Onyeji
Tomasz J. Opalka
Tomas Palka
Klaudia Pasternak
Stefan Prins
Benjamin Sabey
Jeremy Sagala
Daniel Salecich
M. Salkind-Pearl
Evis Sammoutis
Jakh. Shukurov
James Sproul
Andrew Staniland
Luke Styles
Mirjam Tally
Roberto Toscano
Christ. Trapani
Jeff Trevino
M. Twaalfhoven
Nicholas Vines
James Wade
Peter Zombola
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GILAD HOCHMAN (IL)
Winner of the Israeli Prime Minister Award for Composers (2007), Gilad
Hochman is considered to be one of the most prominent composers in Israel
today. At the age of 22, Gilad was appointed composer in residence by the
Symphonette Ra'anana Orchestra, becoming the youngest composer to win this
title by a professional orchestra as well as the Israeli Prime Minister
Award at 24. Hochman's pieces are frequently performed on concert stages
in Israel by leading soloists, ensembles and orchestras, and his artistic
work is gaining both colleagues' and the audience's acclaim. One of
Israel's dominant newspapers describes him: 'Hochman writes with the hand
of an artist, along with talent and musical taste, his piece spurred much
enthusiasm and curiosity to listen to more and more from his music' (Ora
Binur, Ma'ariv). In addition, his artistic work is gaining broad interest
and recommendations from all dominant newspaper critics in Israel-
Ha'arets, Yedi'ot Aharonot and Globs. For his artistic work Gilad has also
won a merit certificate from his home town, Ra'anana.
Gilad Hochman was born in Israel in 1982 to an Odessa born father and a
Paris born mother. He studied piano since the age of 6 and at 18 graduated
with honors from the Herzeli'ya Conservatory, under the guidance of
composer Dr. Ilya Heifetz and pianist Dr. Mark Shaviner. In 2007 Gilad
Hochman graduated with honors from the Buchman-Mehta School of Music, Tel
Aviv University, guided by composer Gil Shohat. While a student, Mr.
Hochman was also active in many different fields: he was a member of the
Israeli National Music Committee; the artistic manager of the "New Sounds"
concert series of the Israeli Composers League; the executive producer of
the Musica Nova Ensemble, and Co-founder of the Buchman-Mehta School of
Music's concert series.
In his music, Hochman puts a great emphasis on subjects relating to the
Jewish tradition and his Israeli origin on one hand, while merging a
contemporary musical language on the other. These themes are mainly
portrayed through traditional harmonic and melodic elements, whilst
introducing a new vision, making his music accessible to a wide range of
audiences. An article on Hochman's piece, "Slightly Disturbed", for
clarinet, violin and cello, suggested that: 'the non-musical context of
the piece sheds a new light over traditional usage of musical elements…
yet at the same time, remains very subtle' (Noam Ben-ze'ev, Ha'aretz).
Similarly, his pieces; "A voice in the Wilderness", for orchestra
(commissioned by the Tel Aviv Soloist ensemble), "Akeda", for solo viola
(commissioned by the Aviv Contests '07), and, "On the Verge of an Abyss",
for choir a-cappella (commissioned by the Naked Voices ensemble), all
express various concepts in contemporary music which correspond with the
composer's Jewish-Israeli origins.
Nowadays, Gilad Hochman divides his time between Israel and Berlin,
Germany, where he dedicates most of his time to writing pieces
commissioned by artists and music institutes in Europe, Israel and the
USA.
Principal Commissioned Works
Resonance for solo horn. Commissioned by Sa'ar Berger for Ensemble
Modern-Frankfurt CD launching (2008)
On the Verge of an Abyss for mixed choir a-cappella. Commissioned
by Naked Voices a-cappella ensemble (2008)
Concert Piece for saxophone and piano. Commissioned by Prof. Gersh
Geler, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem (2008)
East for solo violin and piano. Commissioned by violinist Hubert
Pralitz, Los Angeles, USA (2008)
Nedudim for solo contrabass. Commissioned by contrabassist Ron
Merhavi for a CD launching (2008)
Sonata for solo piano. Commissioned by pianist Yael Manor (2008)
A Voice in the Wilderness for orchestra. Commissioned by the Tel
Aviv Soloists Ensemble for the season opening concert (2006)
Akeda for solo viola. Commissioned by the Adele and John Gray
Endowment fund of the America-Israel Cultural Foundation as an obligatory
piece for The Aviv Competitions (2006)
Slightly Disturbed – monodrama for violin, clarinet and cello.
Commissioned by Meitar Ensemble for the Israel Music Institute (IMI)
season opening concert (2006)
Lior for soprano, violin, cello, clarinet, bassoon and piano.
Commissioned by Meitar Ensemble for a tribute concert in honor of composer
Yehezkel Braun (2006)
Scenes from Midst of Sea for solo double bass, wind ensemble, piano
and percussion. Commissioned by The Campus Orchestra (2005)
Brief Memories for string trio. Commissioned by composer Michael
Wolpe for “Sounds in the Desert” music festival (2004)
Publishers
Israel Music Institute (IMI)
Self Publishing (GHE)
Mailto:
hoch.gman(at)gmail.com
www.myspace.com/giladhochman
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