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Yehudi Wyner, Composer
Yehudi Wyner is one of the leading American composers of our time. Although born in 1929 in Calgary, Alberta (Canada), he grew up in New York City.
He was exposed to music from an early age as his father, Lazar Wyner was a well known composer of Yeddish music art songs. Yehudi Wyner studied at the Juillard School, Yale University and Harvard.
He was a Pullitzer Prize winner in 2006 with his piano concerto “Chiavi in Mano”. Included as part of all of his awards, honors and scholarships are: Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Guggenheim Fellowship. Mational Endowment for the Arts grant, Rome Prize Fellowship, Hertz Fellowship, and the Naumburg Chair in Composition at Brandeis University from1991. He has also taught at Yale for fourteen years, Harvard, SUNY Purchase and Cornell.
He has written for a variety of musical genres, symphony and chember orchestras, chamber ensembles, instrumental and vocal soloists and choruses.
He has also composed music for the theatre as well as music for Jewish Liturgy.
