Betty Olivero

Betty Olivero’s compositions have been performed by leading orchestras and chamber groups such as the Chicago Symphony, the New York Philharmonic, the Israel Philharmonic, the BBC Symphony, the London Sonfonietta, the Amsterdam Sinfonietta, the Juilliard Ensemble and the Arditti Quartet, and at many major European, North American and Asian festivals.

Born in Israel in 1954, Olivero studied with Itzhak Sadai and Leon Shidlowsky in Israel, with Jacob Druckman and Bernard Rands at Yale University and worked with Luciano Berio in Italy.

For her achievements, Olivero was awarded a Leonard Bernstein Scholarship (USA 1982), the Fromm Award (USA, 1986), the Prime Minister’s Prize (Israel, 2001 and 2009), the Koussevitzky Award (USA 2000), the Rosenblum Award (Israel, 2003), the Landau Award for performing arts (Israel, 2004), the ACUM prize  for life achievement (Israel, 2004 ) the ACUM prize for  the Best Classical Concert  Piece of the year, (Israel   2010) the Israel Minister of Culture’s Prize (2014) and the E.M.E.T prize (2015).

Olivero is a full professor of composition at Bar-Ilan University. She regularly lectures and gives master classes in prestigious and major universities and schools in the USA such as Yale, Harvard, UCLA, Boston, Euston, Bard College, Juiliard, Mannes and others, and in Europe.

Olivero’s works are published by Ricordi Music in Milano, and IMI in Israel. Her works were recorded by ECM, Angel, Koch International, Ricordi, Pläne, IMI, Beit Hatefutsoth, and Folkways records companies.

Olivero was composer-in-residence for the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra and has been on committees for the ministry of education.

Olivero is one of the founding members of the “Research Study Center- Luciano Berio” in Florence, Italy, along with Pierre Boulez, Maurizio Pollini and others.