Title: Tzafuf Bazug
Commission: 2007
Completed: 2009
Instrumentation: soprano, percussion, and string quartet
Premiere Location: August 18, 2009 at the Salt Bay Chamber Music Festival
Premiere Ensemble: Lucy Shelton (soprano), Jennifer Koh (violin), Hsin Yun Huang (viola), Wilhelmina Smith (cello), and Benjamin Hochman (piano)
Notes: Text by David Grossman; dedicated to David Grossman.

Tamar Muskal studied composition and viola at the Jerusalem Academy for Dance and Music (Israel), Yale University and CUNY. Recent and future commissions include a double concerto for saxophone and viola for the Williamsport Symphony, a work for percussionist Steve Schick and a digital/interactive sculpture by Daniel Rozin, music for a 50-minute film for the historic, silent, black and white film about the Mexican revolution, a song cycle commissioned by ASCAP and music for a documentary film about finding a cure for blindness (narrated by Robert Redford).

Tamar received grants and awards from institution such as ASCAP, Meet-the-Composer, the Jerome Foundation, American Music Center and the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival. She received an award from the Academy of Arts and Letters (2004), a grant from Meet The Composer (2006), the Theodore Front Prize from IAWM for The Yellow Wind (2007), a grant from the American Composers Forum/Jerome Foundation (2007), a grant from the Fromm Music Foundation at Harvard University (2007) two grants from the American Music Center (2008, 2009), a fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation (2009), a grant from Meet The Composer (2010) and a first place winning prize from the Third Millennium Ensemble (2013). The Yellow Wind was nominated for a Pulitzer prize. While at Yale, she received four awards for her compositions and achievements.