Born in Buenos Aires, Jorge Liderman began his musical studies at the Rubin Academy of Music in Jerusalem, under Mark Kopitman. In 1988 he received his doctorate in composition from the University of Chicago where he worked with Ralph Shapey and Shulamit Ran. A year later, Liderman joined the composition faculty at the University of California, Berkeley.
His works have been commissioned and performed by the London Sinfonietta, the American Composers Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Tanglewood Orchestra, Radio France, the Netherlands Wind Ensemble, the Nieuw Ensemble, the Arditti String Quartet, Cuarteto Latinoamericano, Boston Musica Viva, Milan Divertimento Ensemble, Chicago Pro Musica, Camerata de las Americas, Duo 46, Musica Nova, Earplay and the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, as well as by individual artists like Oliver Knussen, Diego Masson, Esa Pekka Salonen, David Tanenbaum, and Gloria Cheng. Liderman's music has been featured at Darmstadt, Nuova Consonanza, Stuttgart's Neue Musik, Semaines Musicales Internationales d'Orleans, Mexico's Foro Internacional, London's Viva, Osaka's Expo 90, The International Rostrum of Composers, Paris, and Holland's Proms among others. Liderman's music has also been recorded by CRI, Cadenza, Albany and Bridge Records.
Liderman's opera Antigona Furiosa has been the subject of a television documentary produced by German television in 1992. His compositions have also been recorded and broadcast by the RAI, Radio France, the Bavarian Radio, Radio Frankfurt, the BBC, Kol Israel, National Public Radio, Dutch Radio, Mexican Television, and several Argentine radio stations.
Liderman's 2004 album “Trompetas the Plata” was described by the critics as “ebullient and irresistible.” His hour-long cantata Song of Songs (2001) was hailed by critics as “marvelous, energetic, gorgeous, and exuberant.” Liderman's opera Antigona Furiosa, written at the request of Hans Werner Henze, received the 1992 BMW International Music Theater Prize in conjunction with the 3rd Munich Biennale. That same year Liderman was awarded the Argentine Tribune of Composers' Prize for his chamber work Yzkor which represented his country at the 1992 International Rostrum of Composers in Paris.
Liderman has been the recipient of several awards and commissions from institutions and programs such as the Guggenheim Foundation, 2003, The American Academy of Arts and Letters, 2004, The From Foundation, 2000, and the University of California President's Fellowship, 2003. In 1988 he was invited to take part in the Gaudeamus International Composer's Conference, Amsterdam. In 1987 Liderman was the recipient of a Fellowship at the Tanglewood Music Center which was subsequently followed by the second Paul Jacobs' commission for an orchestral work. In 1986 his String Quartet #1 received a Radio France award. The same year he was awarded the Argentine Tribune of Composers Prize for his work Puncti, Belly, Etc., Etc... which represented his country at the International Rostrum of Composers in Paris. In 1986 he also received a fellowship from the Darmstadt Internationales Musikinstitut. In 1985 his work Shir Eres was granted the Argentine Tribune of Composers Prize, and in 1984 he received the ASCAP Raymond Hubell Music Award.
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