Matti Kovler

Matti Kovler is a Russian born Israeli composer whose music has been performed in Israel, Europe and the United States by the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, the Metropole Orchestra (Netherlands), Fox Studio’s Symphony Orchestra, the Ariel String Quartet (Israel), the Dinosaur Annex New Music Ensemble (Boston) and others.

Kovler's oratorio, The Escape of Jonah, for brass orchestra, choir and soloists, with Hebrew text by poet Sivan Beskin and others, premiered at the Jerusalem Music Centre in 2008. Cokboy, Kovler's piece for orchestra and narrator with text from the poem A Jew Among the Indians by Jerome Rothenberg, premiered at Boston’s Jordan Hall in 2009. It tells the story of a displaced Jew — this time in America — in search of his cultural identity. Here Comes Messiah! by Matti Kovler with librettist, poet Janice Silverman Rebibo, for soprano and chamber ensemble, premiered on May 9, 2009. at Zankel Hall, Carnegie Hall, NYC, and was performed at Boston's Jordan Hall in 2010.

A pianist himself and a devotee of chamber music, Matti Kovler has composed a clarinet-piano-cello trio Shoresh Nishmat, which premiered at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall, a Clarinet Quintet for which he received an honorary mention from ASCAP’s Morton Gould Awards and Wergeland’s Flower, a clarinet-piano duet, commissioned by the Brillaner Duo (Germany).

His awards include fellowships at Tanglewood and the Aspen Music Festival , the America Israel Scholarship for study in the US, and the Theodore Presser Award in Composition at the New England Conservatory.

External links

• The New England Conservatory
• Carnegie Hall Commissions
• Feast of Music
• The New York Times
• Grade A Entrepreneurs

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