Jorge Liderman Professor

Composition, theory, analysis, twentieth-century music.

Born in Buenos Aires, Jorge Liderman began his musical studies at the Rubin Academy of Music in Jerusalem, under Mark Kopitman. In 1988 he received his doctorate in composition from the University of Chicago where he worked with Ralph Shapey and Shulamit Ran. A year later, Liderman joined the composition faculty at the University of California, Berkeley.

His works have been commissioned and performed by the London Sinfonietta, the American Composers Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Tanglewood Orchestra, Radio France, the Netherlands Wind Ensemble, the Nieuw Ensemble, the Arditti String Quartet, Cuarteto Latinoamericano, Boston Musica Viva, Milan Divertimento Ensemble, Chicago Pro Musica, and the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, as well as by individual artists like Oliver Knussen, Diego Masson, David Tanenbaum and Esa Pekka Salonen. His opera "Antigona Furiosa"(1991), commissioned by Hans Werner Henze, won the 1992 Munich Biennale International Prize in Composition.

He has also received awards from the Guggenheim, Harper, Gaudeamus and Fromm Foundations, as well as from ISCM, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the University of California President's Fellowship program. Liderman's music has been featured at Darmstadt, Nuova Consonanza, Stuttgart's Neue Musik, Semaines Musicales Internationales d'Orleans, Mexico's International Foro, London's Viva, Osaka's Expo 90, The International Rostrum of Composers, Paris, and Holland's Proms among others.

Liderman's music can be found on CRI , Bridge, Albany Records and CADENZA.

For more information see: www.jorgeliderman.com