​OFRA YITZHAKI
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“Yitzhaki's command of the impossible modernistic scores is spectacular."   Ha'aretz Daily News, Israel

MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY MUSIC

OFRA YITZHAKI PERFORMED THE WORLD PREMIERES OF CONTEMPORARY WORKS BY
Milton Babbitt (Carnegie Hall, New York)
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich (Carnegie Hall, New York)
Samuel Adler (WQXR Radio, New York)
Nurit Jugend (Pacific Art Gallery, Palo Alto)
Menachem Zur (Columbia University, New York)
Lior Navok (The Jerusalem Theater)
Nizan Leibovich (Tel Aviv Music Academy)
Ben Zion Orgad (New York Public Library)
and others.

HER REPERTOIRE ALSO INCLUDES MODERN CLASSICS, WITH WORKS SUCH AS 
Alban Berg: Piano Sonata Op.1 (1908)
Charles Ives: First Piano Sonata (1909-1922)
Claude Debussy: Études, complete Book II (1915)
Arnold Schoenberg: Piano Suite Op. 25 (1923)
Béla Bartók: Piano Sonata (1926)
Ernst Bloch: Piano Sonata (1935)
Viktor Ullmann: Piano Sonata No. 7 (1944)
Paul Ben-Haim: Sonatina (1945); Piano Music 1967
Luigi Nono:'…Sofferte Onde Serene…'for Piano and Magnetic Tape (1976)

With composer Milton Babbitt, after performing the world premiere of his piano work 'The Old Order Changeth' at the Carnegie Recital Hall. Photography: Steve Sherman

YITZHAKI HAS PERFORMED AS A SOLOIST IN MODERN AND CONTEMPORAY CONCERTOS, SUCH AS
Paul Hindemith: Kammermusik No.2 for Piano and Ensemble (1924)
George Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue (1924)
George Antheil: 'Jazz Symphony' (1925)
Olivier Messiaen: 'Oiseaux Exotiques' (1956)
György Ligeti: Piano Concerto (1988)
Andre Hajdu: Piano Concerto No. 2 (1990)
Ayal Adler: 'Dialogues' (1998)

IN THE FIELD OF CONTMPORARY MUSIC, SHE COLLABORATED WITH ENSEMBLES, INCLUDING
Israel Contemporary Players
Ensemble Intercontemporain
United Berlin Ensemble
Neue Vokalsolisten Stuttgart
New York Virtuoso Singers
New Juilliard Ensemble

SHE WAS A GUEST IN VARIOUS FESTIVALS OF NEW MUSIC, SUCH AS 
'Summergarden' at the New York Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
'Cutting Edge' (New York)
New York’s New Music Collective
Focus! (Lincoln Center, New York)
New York Super Piano Bowl
American Composer Alliance Festival
Die Reihe (Stuttgart, Germany)
Bucharest International Festival for Contemporary Music, Romania
Asian Composer League Music Festival, Israel
Israeli Music Days (Tel Aviv Museum, Israel)
Tectonics Festival for Contemporary Music (Tel Aviv)

OLIVIER MESSIAEN:
'OISEAUX EXOTIQUES' ('EXOTIC BIRDS') FOR PIANO AND ENSEMBLE,
WITH THE ISRAEL CONTEMPORARY PLAYERS, CONDUCTED BY ZSOLT NAGY
LIVE RECORDING FROM THE JERUSALEM MUSIC CENTER

LUIGI NONO:
FIRST PART FROM '...SOFFERTE ONDE SERENE...' ('SERENE WAVES ENDURING')
FOR PIANO AND MAGNETIC TAPE (1976)
LIVE RECORDING FROM THE TEL AVIV ACADEMY OF MUSIC