Jorge Mario Liderman (November 16, 1957 – February 3, 2008) was an
Argentine
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-born
American
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composer
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. He was awarded the
Guggenheim Fellowship
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in 2003 to partially fund a new work for Duo46 titled Aires de Sefarad: 46 Spanish Songs for Violin and Guitar. Jorge went on to compose a second set of 46 songs for Duo46 titled Aires de Sefarad II shortly before his untimely death in 2008. He taught composition at the
University of California, Berkeley
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.
Life
Jorge Liderman was born in
Buenos Aires
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,
Argentina
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, in 1957. He studied at the
Rubin School of Music in
Jerusalem
Jerusalem (; he, יְרוּשָׁלַיִם ; ar, القُدس ) (combining the Biblical and common usage Arabic names); grc, Ἱερουσαλήμ/Ἰεροσόλυμα, Hierousalḗm/Hierosóluma; hy, Երուսաղեմ, Erusałēm. i ...
and earned a doctorate in composition from the
University of Chicago
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in 1988. He joined the faculty of the
University of California, Berkeley
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, in 1989.
He died February 3, 2008, in an apparent suicide, struck by an incoming train at the
Bay Area Rapid Transit
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(BART) station in
El Cerrito.
[SFGate.com]
"Composer Liderman dies in apparent suicide"
February 4, 2008.
Selected works
Orchestral
*Shir Eres (1984)
*Song of Songs (2001), cantata for soprano, tenor, female chorus & chamber orchestra
*Open Strings for guitar orchestra & electric bass
Operatic
*
Antigona Furiosa (1991), libretto by the composer after the drama by
Griselda Gambaro
Griselda Gambaro (born 24 July 1928) is an Argentine writer, whose novels, plays, short stories, story tales, essays and novels for teenagers often concern the political violence in her home country that would develop into the Dirty War. One recu ...
, performed at the third
Munich Biennale
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Chamber
*Aires de Sefarad (2004) - 46 Sephardic songs for Duo46, violin and guitar
*Aires de Sefarad II (2007) - 46 Sephardic songs for Duo46, violin and guitar
*Draft (1998) for piano, violin and tuned percussion
*Furthermore. . . (2006) concerto for violin and chamber ensemble
*Piano Quintet (2002)
*Puncti, Belly, Etc., Etc... (1986)
*String Quartet No. 1 (1985)
*String Quartet No. 3 (1994)
*Swirling Streams, for guitar, bass clarinet & string trio
*That is already... for solo piano
*Tropes IV (1994) for solo piano
*Walking Dances for David Tanenbaum, guitar
*Wind Up Toys for two pianos
*Yzkor (1991)
Notes
External links
Jorge Liderman, Official Websiteobit at SF Classical VoiceUCB press releaseChronicle update
1957 births
2008 deaths
20th-century classical composers
21st-century classical composers
American male classical composers
American classical composers
Jewish American classical composers
Jewish Argentine musicians
Argentine emigrants to the United States
Argentine expatriates in Israel
Argentine Jews
People from Buenos Aires
Suicides in California
Suicides by train
Railway accident deaths in the United States
University of California, Berkeley College of Letters and Science faculty
University of Chicago alumni
21st-century American composers
20th-century American composers
20th-century American male musicians
21st-century American male musicians
2008 suicides
20th-century American Jews
21st-century American Jews
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