Yaron Deutsch plays "A blur of fur & bone" composed by Clara Iannotta
Live performance captured at the Sonic Space Basel - electronic studios. Session date: June 2nd, 2024.
Yaron Deutsch was born in Tel-Aviv (Israel) in 1978 and studied guitar at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance.
Career
In 2006, he founded the Tel-Aviv based ensemble for contemporary music Nikel. With this ensemble, he gave premieres of pieces by Michael Beil, Franck Bedrossian, Pierluigi Billone, Raphaël Cendo, Chaya Czernowin, Clemens Gadenstätter, Bernard Gander, Philippe Hurel, Eduardo Moguillansky, Marco Momi, Helmut Oehring, Stefan Prins, and Michael Wertmüller. In 2007, he founded the international contemporary music festival Tzlil Meudcan which takes places every early July in Tel-Aviv. The festival also proposes summer courses for young composers. He played with numerous ensembles and orchestras under conductors such as Sylvain Cambreling, Peter Eötvös, Zubin Mehta, Emilio Pomàrico, Peter Rundel, Ilan Volkov & Bas Wiegers. Deutsch was appointed professor of contemporary music at the Hochschule für Musik in Basel in 2021.
Selected discography
33RPM, music by Steve Reich, Marco Mommi, Tristan Murail and Clemens Gadenstätter (September 2020)
Almost Nowhere, music by Marco Momi (October 2019), Kairos
Augmented, music by Stefan Prins (March 2019), Kairos
Om On, music by Pierluigi Billone with Tom Pauwels (September 2018), Kairos
A Decade with Ensemble Nikel, music by Stefan Prins, Michael Wertmüller and others (July 2017)
Sgorgo Y . N . oO, music by Pierluigi Billone (October 2016), Kairos
Fremdkörper, music by Stefan Prins (August 2012), Sub Rosa