Betty Olivero

Betty Olivero (Hebrew: בטי אוליברו; b. 16 May 1954) is an Israeli music educator and composer.

Biography

Olivero was born in Tel Aviv, Israel to parents Dora Kapon and Eli Olivero. She graduated with a Bachelor in Music from the Rubin Academy of Music at Tel Aviv University in 1978, where she studied with Ilona Vincze-Kraus for piano and Yizhak Sadai and Leon Schidlowsky for composition. She continued her studies at Yale University where she studied under Jacob Druckman, Bernard Rands and Gilbert Amy, and graduated with a Masters in Music in 1981.[1]

She continued her studies in Florence with Luciano Berio from 1983 to 1986 and began her develop career as a composer in Europe. She married Raffaello Majoni and had two children, and returned to Israel in 2002 to take a position as professor of composition at Bar-Ilan University. In 2004 she became composer-in-residence at the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra.[2]

Olivero's music has been performed internationally by orchestras and ensembles including the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Juilliard Ensemble, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, the London Sinfonietta, the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, the Israel Camerata and the Arditti Quartet.[3]

Honors and awards

Works

Olivero composes for orchestra, chamber ensemble, solo instrument and voice. Selected works include:

Instrumental music
Vocal music

Discography

Olivero's works have been recorded and issued on CD, including:

References

  1. Sadie, Julie Anne; Samuel, Rhian (1994). The Norton/Grove dictionary of women composers (Digitized online by GoogleBooks). Retrieved 3 December 2010.
  2. Fleisher, Robert Jay (1997). Twenty Israeli composers: voices of a culture. Retrieved 11 November 2010.
  3. 1 2 3 "Betty Olivero". Retrieved 20 October 2010.
  4. "Betty Olivero". Retrieved 2010. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
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