Welcome to the 2007 Jewish Music Festival
Jorge Liderman
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Jorge Liderman received his doctorate in composition from the University of Chicago and in 1989, he joined the composition faculty at UC Berkeley. Liderman’s works have been commissioned and performed by the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Tanglewood Orchestra, the New Century Chamber Orchestra, and the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, among others, as well as by artists such as Oliver Knussen, Esa Pekka Salonen, David Tanenbaum, Carla Kihlstedt, and Gloria Cheng. His opera Antigona Furiosa was filmed by German TV in 1992 and received the BMW International Music Theater Prize for that year in conjunction with the 3rd Munich Biennale. That same year Liderman was awarded the Argentine Tribune of Composers’ Prize for his chamber work Yzkor. His music has been recorded by CRI, Cadenza, ERM, Albany and Bridge Records.
- Aires de Sefarad
- Avi Avital
- Community Music Day
- Diaspora Blues
- Ensemble Lucidarium
- Klezmer Buenos Aires - Lerner Moguilevsky Duo
- Noa
- Opening Night: Musical Fortunes
- Pharaoh’s Daughter
- Poetry Slam on the theme of Diaspora
- Major Sponsors
- Alliance for California Traditional Arts
- Anisman/Sherman Family and Julie Sherman
- Bernard Osher Jewish Philanthropies Foundation of the Jewish Community Endowment Fund
- Creative Work Fund
- East Bay Community Foundation-Fund for Artists
- Gaia Fund
- Richard and Rhoda Goldman Fund
- Gottesman-Biddle Family Philanthropic Fund (JCEF)
- Guzik Foundation
- Walter and Elise Haas Fund
- The Jewish Community Foundation and the Jewish Community Federation of the Greater East Bay
- Taube Foundation for Jewish Life and Culture (JCEF)
- Lufthansa German Airlines (Official Airline Sponsor)
- Koret Foundation
- Kurz Family Foundation
- San Francisco Foundation
- The Milton and Sophie Meyer Fund