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BIOGRAPHY

 

Active in the sphere of experimental contemporary music, the native born Israeli composer Ori Talmon won scholarships and awards, among which, the international composition competition "Klang21" (Salzburg, 2009), the Libersohn composition competition (finalist, Israel 2010), the American-Israeli Cultural Foundation Scholarship for Composers (2005-2006), successive scholarships from the Society of Friends of the University of Music Stuttgart, successive scholarships for excellence from the Faculty of Arts at the Tel-Aviv University, the Ben Bassat Excellence Award (2006), the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music's composition competition (Israel 2006) and more.

His works were performed in France, Austria, Israel, Germany and Switzerland in festivals such as "Der Sommer in Stuttgart" (Stuttgart, 2009), "Next Generation 3.0" (Karlsruhe, 2009), "Tzlil Meudcan" (Tel-Aviv 2010), Impuls Festival (Graz 2011) and the off-program of the "Donaueschinger Musiktage" (Germany 2010). He collaborated with performers such as clarinetists Petra Stump and Heinz-Peter Linshalm (Duo Stump-Linshalm), the soprano Sarah Maria Sun (Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart), the soprano Angelika Luz, cellist François Deppe and flutist Michael Schmid (Ictus Ensemble) and more.

Ori Talmon began his composition studies at the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music at the Tel-Aviv University in 2002 working with composers Ruben Seroussi, Yizhak Sadai, Oded Zehavi and Josef Bardanashvili and continued them between 2008 and 2011 in Germany at the University of Arts in Berlin and the State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart with composers Marco Stroppa and Oliver Schneller. He is currently working towards his Ph.D. in Composition at the University of California San Diego (UCSD), working with Roger Reynolds and Philippe Manoury. He attended master classes by composers such as Beat Furrer, Chaya Czernowin, Steven Kazuo Takasugi, Brian Ferneyhough and Helmut Lachenmann and courses such as the European-American Musical Alliance international summer program for composers at "L'Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris" (France 2006), the first international composers' course "Tzlil Meudcan" (Israel 2010), the IRCAM advanced sessions at festival Acanthes (France 2010) and the Impuls Academy (Graz 2011).

A few of his works are published in Israel by the Israeli Music Institute (IMI) and the Israel Music Center (IMC) and a first commercial CD with his work "Noch eine Runde" for two bass-clarinets was released in autumn 2010 under the label "einklang records" (Vienna, Austria).

Apart from his composition studies, Ori Talmon has studied Organ under the guidance of Mr. Alexander Gorin (Tel-Aviv University) and hold a B.Sc diploma in Computer Sciences.

 


© Ori Talmon 2011