OSNAT NETZER, DMA composer, pianist, educator

12 Alton Place #4 osenetzer@gmail.com

Brookline, MA 02446 857-277-9179

EDUCATION

Universität der Künste - Berlin, Germany 2009-2010

Music theater studies, composition teachers Daniel Ott, Iris ter Schiphorst

New England Conservatory of Music – Boston, MA 2005-2011

D.M.A. music composition, composition teachers Lee Hyla, John Heiss

Mannes College of Music - New York, NY 2003-2005

M.M. music composition and theory, composition teacher Robert Cuckson, theory

teacher Carl Schachter, piano teacher Inessa Zaretski

Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance - Jerusalem, Israel 1999-2003

B.Mus, music composition and piano performance, composition teachers Menachem

Zur, Haim Permont, Zvi Avni; piano teachers Allan Sternfield, Assaf Zohar

Israel Arts and Science Academy - Jerusalem, Israel 1994-1997

High school diploma, music major. Composition teacher Andre Hajdu; piano teacher

Esther Narkis

EMPLOYMENT

Boston Metro Opera present

Pianist and vocal coach

New England Conservatory of Music - Boston, MA 2010-present

Adjunct Professor - ear training, fundamental and advanced theory

New England Conservatory of Music - Boston, MA 2005-2009

Choral Accompanist

The Walden School Young Musician's Program – Dublin, NH 2008-2009, 2011

Faculty (composition, musicianship)

Kesher Community Hebrew School - Cambridge, MA 2007-2008

Choral director

Actor's Studio - New York, NY 2005

Accompanist and vocal coach

Mannes College of Music - New York, NY 2004-2005

Counterpoint and ear-training tutor

Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance - Jerusalem, Israel 2002-2003

Assistant teacher, ear training

MATAN art and culture project for youth - Israel 2002-2005

Music teacher, counselor and coordinator, summer music seminars

Ramat Sharet Community Center - Jerusalem, Israel 2001-2002

Theory and piano teacher

Military Service - Israel Defense Forces 1997-1999

Keyboard player and arranger, Nachal military band

COMPOSITION PREMIERES

In the Research of Time July 2011

Firebird Ensemble, Dublin NH

The Wondrous Woman Opera, scene I June 2011

Club Oberon, Cambridge MA

Weeding the Mountain May 2011

Zenas Kim, Daegu, South Korea

String Quartet #2 Theme and Variations July 2010

The New Fromm Players, Tanglewood Music Festival

Taksim for marimba July 2009

Ivana Bilic, marimba; Appleton, WI

Taksim was on the repertoire of the 2009 Paris International Marimba Competition

Paths of Stone and Water for full chorus March 2009

Musica Sacra, Mary Beekman, conductor; First Church in Cambridge, MA

Common Ground for chamber orchestra 2008

Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Gil Rose, conductor; Jordan Hall, Boston, MA

Light Night Songs for mezzo-soprano and chamber ensemble 2006

Naama Natzrati, mezzo-soprano, Kaprizma Ensemble, Israel Sharon, conductor;

Jerusalem Music Center, Jerusalem, Israel

Music to a Poem by Avraham Halfi for voice and orchestra 2003

Iris Malkin, mezzo-soprano, Jerusalem Academy Orchestra, Ram Reuven, conductor;

Sounds in the Desert Music Festival, Negev, Israel

Tribal Count for Pierrot ensemble with percussion 2000

Kaprizma Ensemble; Jerusalem Music Center, broadcasted live on Israeli national

radio

Tofeset Tzvaim String Quartet 1999

Carmel Quartet, Sounds in the Desert Music Festival, Negev, Israel, broadcast on

Israeli national radio

COMPOSITION COMMISSIONS

Dr. Faustus – New York, NY 2011

Song cycle for bass voice and piano

Koleinu Community Chorus – Boston, MA 2011

Choral piece celebrating Koleinu’s 10th anniversary

Firebird Ensemble – Boston, MA 2011

In the Research of Time for viola, vibraphone and bass clarinet

Zenas Kim – Rotterdam, Netherlands 2011

Weeding the Mountain for trombone and three percussion players

Yael Rubinstein – Boston, MA 2010

Olive Cotton for solo cello

Musica Sacra – Cambridge, MA 2008

Paths of Stone and Water for full chorus

Jerusalem Music Center - Jerusalem, Israel 2005

Light Night Songs for mezzo-soprano and chamber ensemble

Be'er Sheva Sinfonietta – Israel

Several arrangements of songs by Alexander Argov 2001-2004

Esprit Trio – Germany, New York 2005

Several arrangements of Israeli songs

SELECTED PIANO PERFORMANCES

Jüdisches Gemeindehaus – Berlin, Germany 2009

Performance of own compositions

Jordan Hall - Boston, MA 2005-2007

Regular performances with the New England Conservatory Chorus and Youth Chorale

Elebash Concert Hall – New York, NY 2004

World premiere, compositions by Noam Sivan and Patrick Muchmore

Hebrew University, Weiss Concert Hall – Jerusalem, Israel 2002

Hindemith The Four Temperaments with the Jerusalem Academy Orchestra, Maestro

Mendi Rodan, conductor

Revivim Concert Hall – Revivim, Israel 2002

World premiere (harpsichord) of newly-discovered work by Paul Ben-Haim, with the

Be’er Sheva Sinfonietta, Maestro Ivgeny Zirlin, conductor

SELECTED AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS

New Music USA MetLife Creative Connections 2012

Grant recipient

Colors Composition Competition Award (Honolulu, Hawaii) 2011

First place

International Music Prize for Excellence in Composition (Greece) 2011

Finalist

The Donald Martino Award for Excellence in Composition 2011

Recipient

Frank Huntington Beebe Fund 2009

Recipient for residency in Berlin

Morton Gould ASCAP Young Composer Award 2009

Honorable Mention

Zeltsman Marimba Festival composition contest 2008

Boston Modern Orchestra Project composition competition 2007

America-Israel Cultural Foundation 2005-2007

Recipient of scholarship for study abroad

Felix Saltzer Techniques of Music Award 2005

Mannes College of Music composition competition 2004

Jerusalem Academy of Music Concerto Competition 2002

Piano performance first prize

FESTIVALS

Tanglewood Music Festival – Lenox, MA 2010

Participant, composition

Walden School Teacher Training Institute – Dublin, NH 2007-2008

Participant, music education

Bowdoin International Music Festival – Brunswick, ME 2007

Participant, composition

Klezkanada Festival of Jewish Culture – Montreal, PQ 2006-2007

Participant, piano improvisation, composition

Ticino Musica – Ascona, Switzerland 1999

Participant, piano performance and chamber music

Early Music Workshop – Jerusalem, Israel 1996-1998

Participant, harpsichord and forte-piano performance

Press

On Common Ground:

"Netzer admirably kept her Mozart-sized ensemble in fluid, kaleidoscopic motion with

adroit orchestration." - Matthew Guerrieri, Boston Globe

"The winner of the BMOP/NEC composition contest was 28-year-old Israeli composer

Osnat Netzer’s brief and ebullient Common Ground, which excels in what Elliott

Carter often marks in his own music as “scorrevole” (scurrying)." - Lloyd Schwartz,

Boston Phoenix

On Paths of Stone and Water:

“Netzer’s unique use of more traditional techniques, mixed with the choir’s excellent

shaping of the melodic lines conjured a pointed sense of deep nostalgia and

yearning.” –Sudeep Aqarwala, The Tech

Publications

C. F. Peters

Publication of Taksim from Improvisations for Marimba

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

American Composers Forum

American Music Center

ACUM - Israel's Music and Literary Arts Society

Other styles and interests

Kleizmer music – interest in both traditional and original compositions and

improvisations. Leader of kleizmer band in New York, 2003-2005 and in Berlin in

2009-2010

Jewish music – organizer of annual holocaust concerts at the New England

Conservatory of Music. Among responsibilities: writing arrangements of Yiddish

songs, giving a workshop on arranging such songs, commissioning new works to

commemorate the holocaust.

Contemporary Song – tours with own songs as singer and pianist in US and

Germany, 2008-currently. Songs combine styles such as concert music, jazz, Jewish

music and contemporary Israeli song. Texts by Israeli poet Leah Goldberg. Samples

available on www.myspace.com/osnatnetzer

more information and sound samples at www.osnatnetzer.com