Avner Dorman

Avner Dorman (Hebrew: אבנר דורמן; born April 14, 1975, in Tel Aviv, Israel) is an Israeli-born composer, educator and conductor. Education Dorman holds a doctorate in music composition from the Juilliard School, where he studied as a C.V. Starr fellow with John Corigliano. He completed his master’s degree at the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music of Tel Aviv University (where he majored in music, musicology, and physics) studying with Josef Bardanashvili. Career At age 25, Dorman became the youngest composer to win Israel’s Prime-Minister’s award. He has since been awarded the ACUM prize for his Ellef Symphony. and the performance of his song cycle “Boaz” received the Israeli Cultural Ministry Prize for best performance of Israeli music the same year. Dorman’s “Variations Without a Theme”, premiered by Zubin Mehta and the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra in November 2003 and won the 2004 Best Composition of the Year award from ACUM. This piece led to a commission from Zubin Mehta, PercaDu, and the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra for “Spices, Perfumes, Toxins!”, a concerto for percussion duo and orchestra. Orchestras that have performed Dorman’s music include the Chicago Symphony Orchestra,