Yaron Deutsch (; born in 1978) is an Israeli guitarist mainly active in contemporary classical music and artistic director of Ensemble Nikel.About Yaron Deutsch on La Phil
Biography Yaron Deutsch was born in Tel-Aviv (Israel) in 1978 and studied guitar at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance.
Career In 2006, he founded the Tel-Aviv based ensemble for contemporary music Nikel.Ensemble Nikel With this ensemble, he gave premieres of pieces by Michael Beil, Franck Bedrossian, Pierluigi Billone, Raphaël Cendo, Chaya Czernowin, Clemens Gadenstätter, Bernard Gander, Philippe Hurel, Eduardo Moguillansky, Marco Momi, Helmut Oehring, Stefan Prins, and Michael Wertmüller.
In 2007, he founded the international contemporary music festival Tzlil Meudcan which takes places every early July in Tel-Aviv.Tzlil Meudcan festival The festival also proposes summer courses for young composers.
He played with numerous ensembles and orchestras under conductors such as Sylvain Cambreling, Peter Eötvös, Zubin Mehta, Emilio Pomàrico, Peter Rundel, Ilan Volkov & Bas Wiegers.International Musikinstitut Darmstadt
Deutsch was appointed professor of contemporary music at the Hochschule für Musik in Basel in 2021.Yaron Deutsch wird neuer Professor für zeitgenössische Musik
Selected discography
33RPM, music by Steve Reich, Marco Mommi, Tristan Murail and Clemens Gadenstätter (September 2020)33RPM Almost Nowhere, music by Marco Momi (October 2019), KairosMarco Momi on Kairos Augmented, music by Stefan Prins (March 2019), KairosStefan Prins on Kairos Om On, music by Pierluigi Billone with Tom Pauwels (September 2018), KairosPierluigi Billone on Kairos A Decade with Ensemble Nikel, music by Stefan Prins, Michael Wertmüller and others (July 2017)Nikel, A Decade Sgorgo Y . N . oO, music by Pierluigi Billone (October 2016), KairosPierluigi Billone on Kairos Fremdkörper, music by Stefan Prins (August 2012), Sub RosaStefan Prins on Sub Rosa
Videos Yaron Deutsch: Live in New York City (2022), directed by H. Paul Moon, live performance at TIME:SPANS Music Festival Stefan Prins - under_current (2021), with Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Ilan Volkov, live performance at Donaueschinger Musiktage Steve Reich - Electric Counterpoint (2020), live performance at Felicja Blumental Music Center Stefan Prins - Not I (2018), live recording at Studio Entropya/Perugia Andreas Dohmen - a doppio movimento (2017), with SWR Experimentalstudio conducted by Ilan Volkov, live performance at the Donaueschinger Musiktage
References
External links Yaron Deutsch's personal website Ensemble Nikel's website