KOPELMAN Aviya
Biography
Born in Moscow in 1978, composer and pianist Aviya Kopelman immigrated to Israel in 1987 and began her musical education at the age of 12. She graduated from the Rubin Music Academy in Jerusalem, where she studied composition with Prof. Tzvi Avni and piano with Dr. Assaf Zohar, Ms. Leah Agmon and Ms. Natasha Tadson. In 2000, she was commissioned by composer Michael Wolpe to write a string quartet for the Sounds in the Desert Festival, and since then her works have been performed regularly in Israel and abroad by the Israel Chamber Orchestra, The Israel Camerata, Tel Aviv Chamber Choir, Conjunto Iberico Octet, Ensemble de la Paix, Les Solistes de Waterloo, and Jerusalem Trio, among others. She has worked with and been influenced by composers such as Andre Hajdu, Oded Zehavi and Ronen Shapira. Kopelman teaches composition at the Hed College for Music in Tel Aviv and at the Rimon School of Jazz and Contemporary Music.
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