Yehudi Wyner
Composer
1929 –
Who is Yehudi Wyner?
Yehudi Wyner is an American composer, pianist, conductor and music educator.
Wyner, who grew up in New York City, was raised in a musical family. His father, Lazar Weiner, was an eminent composer of Yiddish art songs. Wyner attended Juilliard, Yale and Harvard. He has written music in a variety of genres, including compositions for orchestra, chamber ensembles, solo voice and solo instruments, as well as theatrical music and settings of the Jewish liturgy. Among his best-known works are the Friday Evening Service for cantor and chorus, and On This Most Voluptuous Night for soprano and chamber ensemble.
Wyner taught for 14 years at Yale, where he was the head of the composition faculty. He also taught at SUNY Purchase, Cornell, Brandeis and Harvard.
In 2006, Wyner won the Pulitzer Prize for Music for his piano concerto Chiavi in Mano.
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- Born
- Jun 1, 1929
Calgary - Parents
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Canada
- Profession
- Education
- Yale University
- Harvard University
- Juilliard School
- Employment
- Brandeis University
- Yale University
- Harvard University
- Lived in
- New York City
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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