Luna Alcalay

Luna Alcalay (21 October 1928 – 9 October 2012) was a Croatian-born Austrian pianist, music educator and composer.

Biography
Alcalay was born in Zagreb, Croatia to a Jewish family. She studied piano under Bruno Seidlhofer and composition under Alfred Uhl at the Vienna Academy of Music and received a scholarship in 1958 to continue her studies in Rome. She attended the Darmstadt Summer Course. After completing her studies, she returned to Vienna, where she became a professor of piano at the Academy of Music and Performing Arts.

Composition prizes

 * Darmstadt 1963 and 1964
 * Gaudeamus Competition 1967
 * Berlin 1972
 * International ISCM competition Italy 1973
 * ORF Steiermark 1973
 * "Preis der Stadt Wien" 1992

Works
Selected works include:


 * Apostroph (violin solo)
 * Apostrophen (violoncello solo)
 * Gyroskop for viola solo (1998)
 * un sogno à tre for flute, viola and harp (1990)
 * relatif à la sonorité (string trio)
 * Touches (two pianos)
 * conversations à trois (woodwind trio)
 * L'intérieur des pensées (string quartet)
 * Applications (for sixteen strings)
 * Pas de deux (two clarinets)
 * Trio (alto saxophone, drums, double bass)
 * Syntax (percussion)
 * En circuit · Der alte Friedhof in Prag (mezzo-soprano and ensemble)
 * Bagatellen (piano solo)
 * Transparenzen(piano trio)
 * Sentenzen (violin concerto)
 * Quasi una Fantasia (violin and piano)
 * Touches (piano concerto)
 * Der übergangene Mensch (Music drama)
 * A Game for Two (percussion (2 players))
 * Due sentenze (mezzo-soprano, oboe d'amore, piano)
 * 3 poems (marimba)
 * En passant (flute solo)
 * Ich bin in sehnsucht eingehüllt ("I'm wrapped in longing"), Scenic reflections on love poems by Selma Meerbaum (1984), written for Gunda König and Dieter Kaufmann's K&K Experimental Studio for their series of performances called "Music and Eroticism – Amor, Terror, Psyche"

Alcalay's work has been recorded and issued on CD, including:
 * Der Tod des Trompeters/Heiligenlegende (Audio CD, December 1, 1995)
 * Vienna Modern Masters VMM3020