Yair Klartag
Finalist Composition Prize 2017
Biography
Yair Klartag was born in 1985 in Israel. He studied composition with Ruben Seroussi at the University Buchmann-Mehta in Tel-Aviv, with Georg Friedrich Haas at the Basel Musikhochschule and at Columbia University in New York, where he is currently a doctoral student. He has also taken masterclasses with George Lewis, Chaya Czernowin, Brian Ferneyhough and Rebecca Saunders.
His music has been performed by ensembles such as the Munich Chamber Orchestra, the Tokyo Sinfonietta, the Wrocław Philharmonic Orchestra, the Ensemble Recherche, the Meitar Ensemble, the JACK Quartet and the MIVOS Quartet and in festivals such as La Biennale di Venezia, Schwetzinger SWR Festspielen, Bludenzer Tage zeitgemäßer Musik and Tage für Neue Musik Zürich.
Yair Klartag is recipient of a number of scholarships (STV-KHS Studientpreis, Schweizer Bundesstipendium, "Klon" scholarship from Israel Composers' League) and has won composition prizes such as the Stuttgart Composition Prize, 31st Irino Prize (Japan), 1st Prize at the Ireneu Segarra Competition, 2nd Prize at the Concours Dutilleux (France), Audience Prize at the Isang Yun Competition (Korea), 2nd Prize at the SCCM Competition (China) and 3rd Prize at the Arioso Musica Domani Competition (USA).
Events
Jaehyuck Choi (22 y.o., Korea)
Nocturne III for clarinet et orchestra1
Yair Klartag (31 y.o., Israel)
Bocca Chiusa for clarinet et orchestra2
Hankyeol Yoon (23 y.o., Korea)
Prank for clarinet et orchestra3
SOLOISTS :
Jérôme Comte, clarinet1
Fabio Di Càsola, clarinet, 1st Prize 19902
Ernesto Molinari, clarinet3
L’Orchestre de Chambre de Genève
Orchestre de la HEM-Genève
Pierre Bleuse, conducting
Direct broadcast on Espace 2 - Live video streaming on our website, Facebook & YouTube
With the support of Fondation Reine Marie José
NOTE ON THE PROGRAMME:
By placing contemporary creation at the heart of its artistic projects, the Geneva Competition wants to act as both a pioneer and a militant. In the same way as we try to refresh musical interpretation by promoting young talent from all over the world, it is vital that the music itself regenerates and stays up-to-date by giving creativity a deserving place. Since 2013, our Composition Prize has shown that it is possible to consider composition as a discipline in its own right, and to view its winners as virtuosos and its finals as events for the general public. We continue to believe that this is worthwhile and are now broadening the competition to include a work for solo clarinet and orchestra.