Yannay Yehuda
Composer
Yehuda Yannay (b. May 26, 1937 in Timișoara, Romania) is a Hungarian-Israeli-American composer and conductor. He immigrated with his parents to Israel in 1951.
Yannay is a prolific and versatile composer and media artist of international reputation whose list of about 130 works include: music for orchestra, electronic, live electronic and synthesizer pieces, environmental compositions, film, music-theater, and a large body of vocal and chamber music pieces.
He studied composition in Israel with A. U. Boscovitch and graduated from the Rubin Academy of Music in Tel-Aviv in the year 1964. Before graduation he received the first Fulbright grant in music from Israel. He chose to attend Brandeis University where he was awarded an MFA (1966). After a fellowship at the famed Tanglewood composition seminar in 1965, he returned to Israel as a part-time dean at the Conservatory of Music in Tel-Aviv. In 1968 he was invited as a doctoral student to the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana where he participated in the lively avant-garde activities in the late sixties and obtained a doctorate in 1974. During his student years he held some of the most prestigious scholarships in Israel and the USA and was guest composer in the new music festivals in Saõ Paulo in 1989 and Stuttgart in 1990, and the International Week of New Music in Bucharest in 1992 and 1993. The International Music Festival in Timisoara, the city of his birth, honored him with a concert of his music. In 1998 he was invited as guest composer and presenter by the Society for Jewish Music of Berlin for the festival celebrating 50th anniversary of the State of Israel.
He received numerous commissions and grants from prominent performing groups, soloists and foundations such as the National Endowment for the Arts, National Endowment for the Humanities, Milwaukee Symphony, The Orchestra of Our Time, Israel Composers Fund, Wisconsin Arts Board, Anna Nassif Dance Co., Festival Musica Nova in Santos, Brazil, and others. Yannay had major premieres with the Cleveland Chamber Symphony. The Innova, Electronic Music Foundation, Vienna Modern Masters and Albany labels issued five CDs with his works. He toured extensively as composer, lecturer and conductor in Western and Eastern Europe, Brazil and Israel.
Yannay is a prolific and versatile composer and media artist of international reputation whose list of about 130 works include: music for orchestra, electronic, live electronic and synthesizer pieces, environmental compositions, film, music-theater, and a large body of vocal and chamber music pieces.
He studied composition in Israel with A. U. Boscovitch and graduated from the Rubin Academy of Music in Tel-Aviv in the year 1964. Before graduation he received the first Fulbright grant in music from Israel. He chose to attend Brandeis University where he was awarded an MFA (1966). After a fellowship at the famed Tanglewood composition seminar in 1965, he returned to Israel as a part-time dean at the Conservatory of Music in Tel-Aviv. In 1968 he was invited as a doctoral student to the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana where he participated in the lively avant-garde activities in the late sixties and obtained a doctorate in 1974. During his student years he held some of the most prestigious scholarships in Israel and the USA and was guest composer in the new music festivals in Saõ Paulo in 1989 and Stuttgart in 1990, and the International Week of New Music in Bucharest in 1992 and 1993. The International Music Festival in Timisoara, the city of his birth, honored him with a concert of his music. In 1998 he was invited as guest composer and presenter by the Society for Jewish Music of Berlin for the festival celebrating 50th anniversary of the State of Israel.
He received numerous commissions and grants from prominent performing groups, soloists and foundations such as the National Endowment for the Arts, National Endowment for the Humanities, Milwaukee Symphony, The Orchestra of Our Time, Israel Composers Fund, Wisconsin Arts Board, Anna Nassif Dance Co., Festival Musica Nova in Santos, Brazil, and others. Yannay had major premieres with the Cleveland Chamber Symphony. The Innova, Electronic Music Foundation, Vienna Modern Masters and Albany labels issued five CDs with his works. He toured extensively as composer, lecturer and conductor in Western and Eastern Europe, Brazil and Israel.
| Title | Type | Year |
|---|---|---|
| "Traum ist von Tat nicht so verschieden..." / "Dream and action are not so apart..." | Live and tape music | 1998 |
| A Noiseless Patient Spider | Female choir | 1975 |
| A Wheel of Lights | Solo voice(s) a cappella | 2014 |
| A.U. Boskovich: Psalm | Chamber Music | 2006 |
| All Our Women | Opera | 1981 |
| American Sonorama | Ballet / Choreographic work | 1976 |
| Aprés Rameau: Les Poulets de Mequon / After Rameau: The Chickens of Mequon | Chamber Music | 2013 |
| At the End of the Parade | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1974 |
| Attic Songs and Betweens | Electroacoustic music | 1975 |
| Augentanz & Galgenlied | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1986 |
| Autopiano or Piano minus Pianist | Stage work | 1969 |
| Bayanette for Two | Chamber Music | 2009 |
| Bayannayab (Choral) | Chamber Music | 2006 |
| Berlin Music | Chamber Music | 2018 |
| Between the Raindrops | Instrumental solo | 1984 |
| Beware of Poison Mushrooms! | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 2013 |
| Bits into Pieces | Electroacoustic music | 2014 |
| Brazilian Birdwhistle Event | Other | 1980 |
| Bug Piece | Other | 1972 |
| Charcoal and Pastel Music 1 to 52 | Other | 1979 |
| Coheleth / Ecclesiastes | Electroacoustic music | 1970 |
| Coloring Book for the Harpist | Instrumental solo | 1969 |
| Concertino for Violin and Chamber Orchestra | Concerto | 1980 |
| Concerto for Audience and Orchestra | Other | 1971 |
| Continuum, Op. 15 | Instrumental solo | 1966 |
| Das Verdächtige Saxophon / The Suspicious Saxophone | Instrumental solo | 2019 |
| Dawn | Mixed choir | 1970 |
| Delirium Dance Trip | Instrumental solo | 2015 |
| Departure | Choir and solo instrument(s) | 1972 |
| Double Transplant | Instrumental solo | 2004 |
| Duo | Chamber Music | 1991 |
| Electronic Music | Electroacoustic music | 1965 |
| Eros Reminisced | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1981 |
| Exit Music At Century’s End | Chamber orchestra | 1995 |
| Fantasietta | Instrumental solo | 2020 |
| Five Pieces for Three Players | Chamber Music | 1994 |
| Five Songs for Tenor and Orchestra | Solo voice(s) with orchestra | 1977 |
| Foregroundmusic | Solo voice(s) with ensemble | 1965 |
| Genesis | Ballet / Choreographic work | 1979 |
| Go Fearing | Multimedia | 1996 |
| Hornology | Instrumental solo | 2004 |
| Houdini’s Ninth | Stage work | 1969 |
| Im Silberwald | Live and tape music | 1983 |
| In Between Us | Electroacoustic music | 1989 |
| In Conclusion | Chamber Music | 2018 |
| In Madness There Is Order | Vocal music | 1988 |
| Incantations | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1964 |
| Incipit Vita Nova | Instrumental solo | 2013 |
| Insomnia in Havana | Stage work | 2005 |
| Interconnections | Ensemble | 1965 |
| Janus | Chamber orchestra | 2020 |
| Jidyll | Film music | 1984 |
| Kaddish for Yossi | Chamber Music | 2020 |
| Le Campane di Leopardi / The Bells of Leopardi | Choir and solo instrument(s) | 1979 |
| Loose Connections | Chamber Music | 1996 |
| M. My Dear | Chamber Music | 1985 |
| Marrakesh Bop | Chamber Music | 1999 |
| Mayeem (Water) | Choir and solo instrument(s) | 2016 |
| Midwest Mythologist | Stage work | 2012 |
| Milwaukee Brew Project | Tape music | 1979 |
| Mirkamim | Symphony orchestra | 1967 |
| Mishnayot | Choir with solo voice(s) | 1961 |
| Music for Piano | Instrumental solo | 1962 |
| Mutatis Mutandis | 1968 | |
| My Main Squeeze | Chamber Music | 2000 |
| Nine Branches of the Olive Tree | Chamber Music | 1984 |
| Note Traffic | Chamber Music | 2008 |
| Nuances Argentées / Shades of Silver | Live and tape music | 2006 |
| Nächtliche Stunde / Hour of the Night | Vocal music | 2005 |
| Only Gestures | Electroacoustic music | 2006 |
| Per Se | Concerto | 1969 |
| Percussion Fountain | Other | 1998 |
| Permutations | Instrumental solo | 1964 |
| Piano Concerto | Concerto | 2003 |
| Piano Portfolio I | Instrumental solo | 2000 |
| Piano Transplant | Instrumental solo | 2004 |
| Piano Trio | Chamber Music | 2000 |
| Piece for Pianist Pondering Pandemics | Instrumental solo | 2020 |
| Playing for Peace | Ensemble | 1994 |
| Plus Avec Moins(PAM)-More From Less(MFL) | Chamber orchestra | 2012 |
| Psukey Dezimra | Choir with solo voice(s) | 1961 |
| Radiant, Inner Light | Other | 2000 |
| Random Rotated | Chamber Music | 1965 |
| Rhapsody | Concerto | 2005 |
| Rubayat | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1958 |
| Seven Late Spring Pieces | Instrumental solo | 1973 |
| Seven Late Spring Pieces | Symphony orchestra | 1979 |
| Sixty Seconds Before Diving | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 2020 |
| Spheres | Solo voice(s) with ensemble | 1963 |
| Spiegeltanz / Mirrordance | Solo voice(s) with solo instrument(s) | 1989 |
| Squares & Symbols, Exits and Traps | Chamber Music | 1971 |
| Statement | Instrumental solo | 1964 |
| Suite for Mandolin and Accordion | Chamber Music | 2011 |
| Summer Ostinato | Chamber Music | 2015 |
| TRIO | Chamber Music | 1982 |
| Tandem Pieces | Chamber Music | 2015 |
| Tangoul Mortii / Tango of Death | Instrumental solo | 1996 |
| Tangoul Mortii / Tango of Death | Instrumental solo | 2001 |
| Textures | Symphony orchestra | 1968 |
| The Bogen Songs | Solo voice(s) with ensemble | 2010 |
| The Center Does Not Hold | Chamber Music | 2016 |
| The Chain of Proverbs | Choir and solo instrument(s) | 1962 |
| The Decline and Fall of the Sonata in B-flat | Stage work | 1976 |
| The Exquisite Bassoon | Instrumental solo | 2017 |
| The Exquisite Viola | Instrumental solo | 2013 |
| The Hidden Melody | Chamber Music | 1977 |
| The One-Legged Dancer | Instrumental solo | 2001 |
| The Oranur Experiment | Multimedia | 1991 |
| The Urbana (IL) Christal Lake Park Gathering | Chamber Music | 1968 |
| The Vestibule Peep-In-Pipe-Out | Other | 1970 |
| Three Hebrew Aphorisms | Mixed choir | 2007 |
| Three Jazz Moods | Concerto | 1982 |
| Three Michael and Nancy Pieces | Ballet / Choreographic work | 1978 |
| Three Organic Pieces | Instrumental solo | 2004 |
| Three Pieces for Saxophone and Harp | Chamber Music | 2022 |
| Three Postcards from Paris | Instrumental solo | 2012 |
| Three Visions of Age | Electroacoustic music | 1985 |
| Twelve Monophonic Dances | Instrumental solo | 1958 |
| Tombeau de Satie | Choral music | 1979 |
| Two Alleys in Old Tel-Aviv | Chamber Music | 2013 |
| Two Fragments | Chamber Music | 1966 |
| Variations for 2 Flutes | Chamber Music | 1960 |
| Violoncello Solo for "I can’t fathom it" | Incidental music | 1993 |
| Visions of Y | Chamber Music | 2002 |
| Wilhelm Reich: Journey to Orgonon | Other | 1997 |
| Windsuck | Other | 1985 |
| Wraphap | Stage work | 1969 |
| Yigdal | Solo voice(s), choir & solo instrument(s) | 1985 |
| preFIX-FIX-SufFIX | Chamber Music | 1971 |