Tzvi Avni

Tzvi Marrano Avni (Hebrew: צבי אבני; born Hermann Jakob Steinke in Saarbrücken, Germany, 1927; first name sometimes spelled Zvi) is an Israeli composer. He emigrated to Palestine as a child and studied with Paul Ben-Haim.

On the recommendation of Edgard Varèse, he became involved at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center in the 1960s. Later he founded an electronic studio at the Jerusalem Academy of Music, following the guidelines of his mentor in New York, Vladimir Ussachevsky.

External links

* [http://www.tzvi-avni.com/ Tzvi Avni official site]
* [http://www.imi.org.il/composerInfo.asp?num=22 Tzvi Avni bio]
*Gluck, Robert J. "The Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center: Educating international composers" in "Computer Music Journal" 31 n2 Summer 2007, pp. 20-38