This resulted in his Gypsy Cantata on poems of Miklos Randoti, which won first prize at the Warsaw International Youth Festival (1955).įollowing the failure of the Hungarian uprising, Hajdu escaped to France, where he studied with Milhaud and Messiaen at the Paris Conservatoire. As a Kodály disciple, he spent two years among the Hungarian gypsies, collecting songs and stories. In 1949 he entered the composition department of the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, where he studied the piano with György Kósa and Erno Szégedi, composition with Endre Szervánszky and Ferenc Szabó, and ethnomusicology with Zoltán Kodály. As a young boy, he survived the Nazi invasion and miraculously escaped deportation. Israeli composer, pianist and ethnomusicologist. In addition to playing and recording the mainstream viola repertory, such as the Bach suites, Bloch's Suite hébraïque, Joachim's Variations, the viola concertos of Martinů, Serly, Bartók, Bax and Rubbra, Benjamin's Fantasy and the Tertis version of the Elgar Cello Concerto, she has given the premières of more than 200 works, including 33 concertos. Golani has a charismatic stage presence and the ability to hold an audience's attention even with the most complex new music. In 1974 she moved to Toronto, becoming a major force in Canadian contemporary music and from the 1990s she has been based alternately in Toronto and London. Having switched to the viola, she played in the Tel-Aviv Chamber Orchestra in 1968 and in the Israel PO from 1969 to 1974, gradually building up a solo career as a 20th-century specialist. She learnt the violin with her mother, then at the Israel Academy of Music and finally with Oedoen Partos at Tel-Aviv University, also studying art and mathematics. She has toured widely, and is admired for intelligent and perceptive musicianship as well as spirited brilliance of technique.ī Tel-Aviv, March 22, 1946). In 1986 she joined the faculty of Indiana University, where she gave the first performance of Donald Erb's Together Forever: Three Poems (1988) and recorded his violin concerto. Her New York recital début was in 1969, and her British début was at Windsor Castle in 1971. Her prizewinning performance of the Sibelius concerto on the latter occasion was subsequently issued as a recording, and was praised for a maturity of approach and vibrant expression reminiscent of Ginette Neveu. She won the 1968 Paganini International Competition at Genoa, and the 1971 Queen Elisabeth of Belgium Competition at Brussels. She also worked with Josef Gingold at Indiana University (1966–7), and with Ivan Galamian at the Juilliard School (1967–9). She studied at the Rabin Academy in Tel-Aviv, and then in the USA as a protégée of Isaac Stern. Membranophones (Stretched Membrane Percussion) Music Business, Institutions and Organizations
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