Yehudi Wyner

Born: 1 June 1929, Calgary (Canada)
Died:

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Wyner news

• Wyner's piano concerto won Pulitzer Prize
  (27 April 2006)
  

  Yehudi Wyner's Piano Concerto: "Chiavi in Mano" won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in Music on 17 April 2006. Commissioned by the Boston Symphony for soloist Robert Levin, the one-movement work premiered on 17 February 2005, led by Robert Spano.

Music

• Intermedio, a ballet (1976)
• Fragments from Antiquity, for soprano and orchestra (1978–81)
• On This Most Voluptuous Night, for soprano and chamber ensemble (1982)

Some recent orchestral works include:

• Prologue and Narrative, for Cello and Orchestra
• Lyric Harmony, for orchestra (1995)
• Epilogue, for orchestra (1996)
• String Quartet (1985)
• Toward the Center, for piano (1988)
• Sweet Consort, for flute and piano (1988)
• Friday Evening Serivice, for Cantor and Chorus
• 0 To Be a Dragon choruses, for women’s voices (1989)
• Trapunto Junction, for 3 brass and percussion (1991)
• Praise Ye the Lord, Psalm, for soprano and ensemble (1996)
• Horntrio (1997)
• Madrigal, for String Quartet (1999)
• The Second Madrigal: Voices of Women (1999)
• Tuscan Triptych: Echoes of Hannibal, for string orchestra (2002)
• Commedia, for clarinet and piano (2002)
• Chiavi in Mano, Piano Concerto (premiered in 2005)

He has written many other works besides these.

Biography

Yehudi Wyner taught at Yale, Brandeis, Harvard and many other schools of music. He is married to Susan Davenny Wyner, marvelous mezzo soprano and conductor.

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