Dr. Talia Amar

Dr. Talia Amar is the recipient of many international awards including the Prime Minister
prestigious award 2018, The Acum prize for “best piece of the year” 2022, The Acum
award 2019, the Rosenblum Prize for Promising Young Artist 2016 by the Tel Aviv
Municipality, the Klon Award for young composers granted by the Israeli Composers
League.
Recently she was the winner of The Next Voice – a call for scores from Israeli
composers. Her piece, For Orchestra I was unanimously selected from an incredible 152
submissions and will be performed by the Israel Philharmonic under the baton of Lahav
Shani in March 2026 in Tel Aviv, Haifa, and Jerusalem.
She was selected by the famous violinist Renaud Capucon to participate in the Festival
New Horizons d’Aix en Provence 2022 where her piece, commissioned especially for the
festival, will be performed. In 2022 her piece “Labyrinth” was commissioned and
performed at Festival Présences by Radio France in Paris. Her string quartet “Obsession”
was featured in Castleton Festival USA after being hand selected by Maestro Lorin
Maazel. She was selected to be the Composer Fellow of Collage New Music for 2015-
2016 in Boston. She has participated in the IRCAM ManiFeste workshop and the
Royaumont composition course in France.
She was selected to represent Israel in different festivals such as ISCM World New Music
in Vancouver, ECCO Festival in Brussels, Asian Composers League Festival in Taiwan,
ICMC in Seoul, and SMC in Austria.
Her compositions have been performed in France, Canada, Belgium, Norway, Australia,
Philippines, Taiwan, Germany, USA, England, Greece, Italy and Israel.
She earned her PhD at Brandeis University, where she was awarded the Sandy Fisher
Prize for Exceptional Achievement in the Creative Arts at Brandeis University.
Since 2017, Talia joined the composition faculty at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and
Dance in Israel where she is also the Head of Technology and Innovation. She is also a
council member of the Israeli Composers League and the performer of electronics music
of Meitar Ensemble.