Yoav Talmi
Yoav Talmi is the laurate of the 2013 Prime-Minister Prize for composition and the 2018 Avidom Prize for the composition of the year. in 2008, he was awarded the ‘Frank Pelleg’ prize of the Israeli Cultural Ministry, for his high-level artistic achievements through many years of activity
Born in Kibbutz Merhavia, Israel, Yoav Talmi is a graduate of the Rubin Academy of Music in Tel Aviv and the Juilliard School in New York, both as composer and conductor. Known primarily as a conductor, Yoav Talmi has always kept composing. In Israel he studied composition with Theodore Holdheim, Artur Gelbrun and Mordecai Seter. Further composition studies continued under Hal Overton and Vincent Persichetti at the Juilliard School and with Darius Milhaud at the Aspen Summer Music School.
Already at the age of 21, upon graduating from the Rubin Academy of music in Tel Aviv, he was awarded by the America-Israel Cultural Foundation the Boskovich Prize for Composition for his ‘Music for Flute and string orchestra. Talmi is also known in Israel as the composer of the official March of the Israeli Army (Tzahal March), which he wrote when he was 19 years old.
Among Talmi’s works are: De Profundis for choir and orchestra, Animi Motus for orchestra with children’s choir, How she sat alone – symphony for soprano and orchestra, Sinfonia Camerata, Concerto for Cello, Strings and Percussion, Elegy for Strings, Timpani and Accordion (‘Dachau Reflections’), Music for Flute and String Orchestra, Clarinet Quintet, In Times of Torment for string quartet, Divertimento for wind quintet, Music for 13, Moods for piano solo, Suite of Israeli Folk Songs for flute and orchestra (or piano), Three Monologues for flute (or cello, or viola or violin, or bassoon), Dreams (“Halomot”) for choir a cappella, and more.
His works, orchestrations, transcriptions and arrangements are published by the Israel Music Institute in Tel Aviv, Carl Fischer and Kalmus in the USA, Doberman-Yppan in Canada and Broekmans & van Poppel in Amsterdam.
A disc of Talmi’s compositions was issued in 2017 by the Israel Music Institute.