Dan Yuhas: Coloured Lines (Chamber & Ensemble Works)

Featuring

Noam Buchman
Nitai Zori
Hillel Zori
Marcus Weiss
Amit Dolberg
Oron Schwartz

Zsolt Nagy
Noa Frenkel
Benny Sluchin
Irit Assayas
Ed Spanjaard
Gershon Dembinsky
Nicholas Carthy
Yuval Zorn
Arditti Quartet
Israel Contemporary Players
Ensemble UnitedBerlin
Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart
Dan Yuhas

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Compositional Technique

In his piece 'Concertato', Dan Yuhas draws most of his musical material from Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 1.

Composer Biography

Dan Yuhas, the composer, studied piano and composition at the Rubin Academy in Tel Aviv, and later at the Guildhall School of Music in London and in Paris.

Composer Biography

Dan Yuhas has received numerous awards, including the Acum Prize (1987), the Prime Minister's Prize for Composers (1988), and the Koussevitzky Award (2008).

Recording & Production

This album features recordings made in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv (Israel) and Stuttgart and Schloss Elmau (Germany) between 1998 and 2014.

Composer Biography

Dan Yuhas is the founder and director of the Israel Contemporary Players, an ensemble featured on this album, and Hateiva – The Center for Electronic Music in Tel Aviv.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Dan Yuhas considers the string quartet to be the most intimate and distilled expression of a composer, making its composition a very special meaning for him.

Compositional Technique

In 'Spell', Dan Yuhas uses a phonetic text without semantic meaning, integrating voices into the instrumental texture and creating a magical-ritual atmosphere with allusions to popular music.