Background
Tzvi Avni was born on September 2, 1927 in Saarbrücken, Germany. In 1935, four months after the Saar was reclaimed by Germany under the Nazis, he immigrated to Mandatory Palestine with his parents.
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Tzvi Avni studied with Abel Ehrlich and Seter at the Tel Aviv Academy of Music (diploma, 1958), and also received private instruction in orchestration from Ben-Haim. He was a student of Copland and Foss at the Berkshire Music Center in Tanglewood (summer, 1963), later pursuing studies in electronic music with Ussachevsky and in music librarianship at Columbia University (1963–1964). He also studied with Schaeffer at the University of Toronto (1964).
Career
Tzvi Avni taught music at various elementary schools and high schools. He eventually became Director of the Lod Municipal Conservatory, and later Director of the Central Music Library in Tel Aviv. For fifteen years he was the editor of Gitit, the journal of the Israeli branch of Jeunesses Musicales, and later became chairman of the Israel Jeunesses Musicales in 1993. From 1971 to 2015 he taught theory and composition at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance. He founded and directed the Academy's electronic music studio. In 1976 he was appointed Professor of Theory and Composition.
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In 1949 he married Pnina Grodnai, a singer and poet.
In 1979 he married Hanna Yaddor, a journalist and translator. The couple had two children, Shiran and Eylon.
Hanna passed away in 2005. In 2017 he married Dvora Finkelstein.
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Nationality
Germany
Education
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1958
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1964
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1963 - 1964
Awards
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Israel PrizeIn 2001, Avni was awarded the Israel Prize, for music. On September 11, 2012, Avni was made honorary citizen of Saarbrücken.
The Israel Prize (Hebrew: פרס ישראל) is an award handed out by the State of Israel and is generally regarded as the state's highest honor.The Israel Prize (Hebrew: פרס ישראל) is an award handed out by the State of Israel and is generally regarded as the state's highest honor.