Jorge Liderman
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Jorge Mario Liderman was an American
United States
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 composer
Composer
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. He was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship
Guggenheim Fellowship
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 in 2003 and taught composition at the University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley
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.

Life

Jorge Liderman was born in Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires
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, Argentina
Argentina
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 in 1957. He studied at the Rubin School of Music in Jerusalem and earned a doctorate in composition from the University of Chicago
University of Chicago
The University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller and incorporated in 1890...

 in 1988. He joined the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley
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 in 1989.

He died February 3, 2008 in an apparent suicide, struck by an incoming Richmond-bound train at the El Cerrito Plaza
El Cerrito Plaza (BART station)
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 Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART)
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 station in El Cerrito
El Cerrito, Contra Costa County, California
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.

Orchestral

  • Shir Eres (1984)
  • Song of Songs (2001), cantata for soprano, tenor, female chorus & chamber orchestra
  • Open Strings for guitar orchestra & electric bass

Operatic

  • Antigona Furiosa (1991), libretto by the composer after the drama by Griselda Gambaro
    Griselda Gambaro
    Griselda Gambaro is an Argentine writer, whose novels, plays, short stories, story tales, essays and novels for teenagers often concern the political violence in her home country that would develop into the Dirty War. One recurring theme is the desaparecidos and the attempts to recover their...

    , performed at the third Munich Biennale
    Munich Biennale
    The Munich Biennale is an opera festival in the city of Munich. The full German name is Internationales Festival für neues Musiktheater, literally: International Festival for New Music Theater. The biennial festival was created in 1988 by Hans Werner Henze and is held in even-numbered years over...


Chamber

  • Aires de Sefarad (2004) - 46 Sephardic songs for Duo46, violin and guitar
  • Aires de Sefarad II (2007) - 46 Sephardic songs for Duo46, violin and guitar
  • Draft (1998) for piano, violin and tuned percussion
  • Furthermore. . . (2006) concerto for violin and chamber ensemble
  • Piano Quintet (2002)
  • Puncti, Belly, Etc., Etc... (1986)
  • String Quartet No. 1 (1985)
  • String Quartet No. 3 (1994)
  • Swirling Streams, for guitar, bass clarinet & string trio
  • That is already... for solo piano
  • Tropes IV (1994) for solo piano
  • Walking Dances for David Tanenbaum, guitar
  • Wind Up Toys for two pianos
  • Yzkor (1991)

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