CMS invited lecture series #50 mit Talia Amar | Koordination Andreas Weixler

Programm
The relationship between music and technology.
In this lecture we will examine how to adapt technological tools for music creation, and what are the types of relationships between composer/performer/machine.
Examples will be explored through Talia Amar's compositions.

Talia Amar, faculty at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance in Israel, Head of Technology and Innovation and council member of the Israeli Composers League and the performer of electronics music of Meitar Ensemble.

Dr. Talia Amar
is the recipient of many international awards including the Prime Minister prestigious award 2018, The Acum prize for “best piece of the year” 2022,
The Acum award 2019, the Rosenblum Prize for Promising Young Artist 2016 by the Tel Aviv Municipality, the Klon Award for young composers granted by the Israeli Composers League.

Recently, she was selected by the famous violinist Renaud Capucon to participate in the Festival New Horizons d’Aix en Provence 2022 where her piece,
commissioned especially for the festival, will be performed. In 2022 her piece “Labyrinth” was commissioned and performed at Festival Présences by Radio France in Paris.
Her stringquartet “Obsession” was featured in Castleton Festival USA after being hand selected by Maestro Lorin Maazel.
She was selected to be the Composer Fellow of Collage New Music for 2015-2016 in Boston.
She has participated in the IRCAM ManiFeste workshop and the Royaumont composition course in France.

She was selected to represent Israel in different festivals such as ISCM World New Music in Vancouver, ECCO Festival in Brussels, and Asian Composers League Festival in Taiwan.

Her compositions have been performed in France, Canada, Belgium, Norway, Australia, Philippines, Taiwan, Germany, USA, England, Greece, Italy and Israel.

She earned her PhD at Brandeis University, where she was awarded the Sandy Fisher Prize for Exceptional Achievement in the Creative Arts at Brandeis University.

Since 2017, Talia joined the composition faculty at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance in Israel where she is also the Head of Technology and Innovation.
She is also a council member of the Israeli Composers League and the performer of electronics music of Meitar Ensemble.

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Themen: Computermusik, Vortrag, Workshop