Yaniv Attar

Name:	Yaniv Attar
Location:	Birmingham United States 35205
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A native of Israel, Yaniv Attar is the 1st prize winner of the Duna Szimfonikus Conducting Competition Budapest, and the recipient of the 2010 Georg Solti Foundation Award in Chicago and the 2009 Bruno Walter Memorial Foundation Award in New York. Attar recently completed his two years residency as the Assistant Conductor of the Alabama Symphony Orchestra. Upcoming season will include work with Israel Chamber Orchestra, Haifa Symphony Orchestra, Duna Szimfonikus Budapest, and Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra.

Drawn to orchestral conducting from early age, Attar has studied with Israel Edelson in Jerusalem, Virginia Allen at the Juilliard School in New York and Neil Thomson at the Royal College of Music in London, where he was also the Associate Conductor of the Tempus Chamber Orchestra. In 2008, Attar earned his Doctor of Music degree from McGill University where he studied under the tutelage of Alexis Hauser. A frequent guest conductor of all performing ensembles at McGill, Attar conducted the McGill Symphony Orchestra, The Contemporary Music Ensemble, University Choir and Opera McGill, with whom he conducted fully staged performances of Puccini's Gianni Schicchi and Ravel's L’enfant et les sortileges. Attar has also worked with the National Symphony Orchestra, Jerusalem Symphony, Milwaukee Symphony, Virginia Symphony, Memphis Symphony, London Soloist Chamber Orchestra, Deutsche Kammeracademie Neuss am Rhein, Bakersfield Symphony, National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, Orchestra I Pomeriggi Musicali Milan, Mihail Jora Philharmonic Romania and Manhattan School of Music Orchestra. An active participant of many conducting workshops, Attar’s teachers have included Kurt Masur, Leonard Slatkin, Janos Fürst and Jorma Panula.

Attar is also an accomplished classical guitarist. He has studied under Irit Even-Tov, Charles Ramirez and Sharon Isbin, for whom he served as teaching assistant at the Aspen Music Festival from 2003 to 2005. Attar was the first guitarist to win the Aviv Competition Prize in Israel and the Concerto Competition at the Juilliard School in 2001. Attar plays a guitar made by Christopher Dean from 2006. His studies have been generously supported by the America and Canada Israel Cultural Foundations, The Williamson Foundation for Music, The Olga Forrai Foundation New York, the Morris and Beverly Baker Foundation, AVI Fellowships Switzerland and the ISEF Foundation.

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