Morse Hall, New Music New Haven, Yale School of Music
April 8, 2021

Ilana Zaks, violin
Florrie Marshall, viola
Simon Karakulidi, piano
Russell Fisher, vibraphone
Ryan Tani, conductor

Broken Consort - For Violin, Viola, Vibraphone and Piano (2021)

Vehigianu (והיגיענו) - For Soprano and Symphony Orchestra (2020/21)

Commissioned by The Adele and John Gray Endowment Fund

The Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra
Steven Sloane, Conductor
Yael Levita, Soprano

Henry Crown Hall, Jerusalem, Israel
October 7th, 2021

Artwork by Asher Katz 
http://www.asherkatz.com/

Vehigianu - for Soprano and Symphony Orchestra (2021)

Udi Perlman - As of Me and of Mine (2021)

Revised version written for the New Music New Haven concert series. The piece was originally written for loadbang (https://www.loadbang.com)

Jared Swope, Baritone
Lloyd Van't Hoff, Bass Clarinet 
Shania Cordoba, Trumpet
Addison Maye-Saxon, Trombone 

Morse Hall, New Music New Haven, Yale School of Music
November 4 , 2021

As Of Me And Mine - for Baritone, Trombone, Trumpet and Bass Clarinet (2021)

Yale Philharmonia
Ryan Tani, conductor

Woolsey Hall, New Music New Haven, Yale School of Music
December  9, 2021

Artwork: Gino Severini, The Accordion Player (1919)

Squeeze Box - for Symphony Orchestra (2021)

Simon Karakulidi, piano

Morse Hall, New Music New Haven, Yale School of Music 
March 10 , 2022

🖼️ Otto Freundlich, Rosette II (La Rosace II), 1941

Minori - for Piano Solo (2022)

Commissioned by the 2021-22 Yale Glee Club Chamber Singers

Yale Glee Club Chamber Singers
Nate Widelitz, Conductor 

Morse Hall, New Music New Haven, Yale School of Music 
April 21, 2022

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Psalm 86 — for SATB Choir (2022)

Kishkush (קשקוש) for Ensemble (2022)

Commissioned by Justus and Elizabeth Schlichting for the 2022 Bang on a Can Summer Festival

LOUD Weekend at MASS MoCA, Hunter Auditorium, July 29th 2022
New Voices: WORLD PREMIERES by Bang on a Can Summer Festival Composers

Todd Reynolds, conductor
Jessica Scott, flute and piccolo
David Munro, oboe
Michelle Hromin, clarinet
Andrew Anderson, piano and bitKlavier
Natasa Hadjiandreou, percussion
Daniel Matei, percussion
Camilla Caldwell, violin
Kennedy Taylor Dixon, viola
Ida Nørby, cello
Brett Armstrong, double bass

KISHKUSH - for 10 players (2022)

Based on a theme from Meditations on a Drama (היהורים על דרמה) for chamber orchestra by Zvi Avni © 1966 Israel Music Institute

Performed as part of the Aspen Music Festival Orchestral Composition Workshop

Gabriela Gómez Estévez, Conductor
The Aspen Conducting Academy Orchestra 

August 12th, 2023
Benedict Music Tent, Aspen, CO

Artwork: Zvi Avni, "Variations" (1951)

Variations on a Theme by Zvi Avni (Orchestra Reading)

Timothy Weiss, Conductor 
Aspen Contemporary Ensemble

Aspen Music Festival and School
Harris Concert Hall, Aspen, CO.
August 10th, 2023

Program Note
When I lived in Jerusalem, there used to be an old street performer who sat at the crossroads of two busy streets at the city center and played instrumental covers of popular Israeli melodies on the electric guitar. He used a drum machine as his backing track that repeated the same chord again and again over an endless um-pa um-pa beat and didn’t seem to mind that the melodies he played were at odds with the static harmonic accompaniment. I was studying composition at the time and was engrossed in the study of harmony, but whenever I heard him play, I would be reminded that, in some cases, harmony is way overrated. My piece Accompaniment, written for the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble, kaleidoscopically explores the um-pa um-pa accompaniment pattern, a ubiquitous presence in the music I absorbed growing up in Israel, and thus, whether I like it or not, part of my musical DNA. Bringing this ready-made musical object from the background to the foreground I attempt to abstract it from its original context and find the hidden beauty that lies within it.

Accompaniment - for Pierrot ensemble

© 2015 by Udi Perlman

"I Forgot My Mantra" was commissioned by 'Meitar Ensemble' as part of the 'Tedarim Project'.

The first performance was given by:
Amit Dolberg – Piano I
Ido Akov – Piano II

At the Center for New Music, Tel Aviv on 11 May 2015


The Tedarim Project is kindly supported by the Adle and John Gray Endowment Fund, Dan Yakir and Project Alex


"I Forgot My Mantra" - For Prepared Piano 4 Hands

Three Songs without Words | for Clarinet and Piano

Winner of the 1st prize at the National Composition Competition at the Israel Conservatory of Music

Preformed by Amit Dolberg (Piano) and Gilad Harel (Clarinet) in Tel-Aviv, Israel, March 2016 


Three Songs Without Words

© 2016 by Udi Perlman
Commissioned by 'Wrocław - European Capital of Culture 2016'
The first performance was given by a specially created orchestra and choir of musicians from the Beethoven Academy orchestra (Poland), the Karol Lipiński University of Music (Poland), the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden (Germany) and The Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance (Israel), conducted by Alan Urbanek
The piece was performed on the bank of the River Oder in the city of Wrocław, Poland as part of the 'FLOW – Wroclaw Cantata' on 11 June 2016.

Concerning Spring - for Chorus and Symphony Orchestra (2016)

Uschik Choi - Cello

5. August 2018
Herrenhaus Edenkoben, Germany

Hermez - for Cello solo (2017), Uschik Choi

Kivun I - 0:00
Kivin II - 4:57

Bernhard Wambach - Piano

5. August 2018
Herrenhaus Edenkoben, Germany

Kivun I & II - for Piano Solo

Yama (ימה) - for seven instruments with prepared digital piano

Instrumentation:
Flute (doubling Alto Flute)
Clarinet in B♭ (doubling Bass Clarinet) 
Horn in F 
Violin 
Viola 
Cello 
Piano (doubling MIDI keyboard)

Commissioned by Gesellschaft für Neue Musik Mannheim
Premiered by the International Ensemble Modern Academy
September 13th 2019
Florian-Waldeck-Saal, REM Museum, Manheim, Germany

I. Andante ma non troppo, con tenerezza
II. Interlude no. 1 - Con moto, tempo giusto
III. Senza misura - intensely focused, resonant
IV. Interlude no. 2 - Con moto, tempo giusto
V. Semplice, molto moderato
VI. Interlude no. 3 - Con moto, tempo giusto
VII. Senza misura

Yama - for seven instruments with prepared digital piano

Udi Perlman: Alila II (premiere recording)

Premiered by the Omer Quartet 

Morse Hall, New Music New Haven, CT
November 6th, 2020

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