#  Yotam Haber 

 

 



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 Title: *Estro Poetico-armonico II*  
Commission: 2012  
Completed: 2014  
Instrumentation: alto flute, bass clarinet, viola, cello, and piano  
Premiere Location: Symphony Space, NYC  
Premiere Ensemble: Collide-O-Scope Music  
Notes:

   
His music hailed by *New Yorker* critic Alex Ross as “deeply haunting,” by the *Los Angeles Times* as one of five classical musicians “2014 Faces To Watch,” and chosen as one of the “30 composers under 40” by Orpheus Chamber Orchestra’s Project 440, Yotam Haber was born in Holland and grew up in Israel, Nigeria, and Milwaukee. He is the recipient of the 2021 Benjamin Danks Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters (the highest prize awarded that year), a 2017 Koussevitzky Commission, a 2013 Fromm Music Foundation commission, a 2013 NYFA award, the 2007 Rome Prize and a 2005 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship. He has received grants and fellowships from the MAP Fund (2016), New Music USA (2011, the New York Foundation for the Arts (2013), the Jerome Foundation (2008, the Bellagio Rockefeller Foundation (2011), Yaddo, Bogliasco, MacDowell Colony, the Hermitage, ASCAP, and the Copland House.

 In 2015, Haber’s first monographic album of chamber music, *Torus*, was hailed by New York’s WQXR as “a snapshot of a soul in flux—moving from life to the afterlife, from Israel to New Orleans—a composer looking for a sound and finding something powerful along the way.”



 

 

 





 

 

- ## Commission Date
    
     [2012](/commissiondate/2012)
- ## Completion Date
    
     [2014](/completiondate/2014)
- ## Composer
    
     [Haber, Yotam](/composer/haber-yotam)
- ## Commissions
    
     [Past Commissions](/pastcommisions)