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Yuval Avital (Jerusalem, 1977) is a musician, composer, multimedia artist and guitarist.

Biography
Born in Jerusalem 1977, living in Milan, Yuval Avital is an eclectic and multidisciplinary artist known for its ability to involve traditional musicians in contemporary operas. His works spread from huge sonic events for numerous performers to demanding orchestral and chamber compositions, from icon-sonic operas which include classical performers, multimedia tools together with traditional carriers of ancient cultures, to highly technological projects, involving scientists, artificial intelligence and live sonic elaborations. Avital worked with the composer of Palestinian Oud Wisam Gibran, former assistant to Daniel Barenboim; among his inspirations there are Pink Floyd and Ligeti. As guitarist he performed at Toronto Performing Art Center, at Royal Palace in Copenaghen, at National Conservatory of China Auditorium and at Miami Art Basel. He is the creator and founder of Trialogo Festival and of Magà Global Arts Around the World. Avital concerts led him to perform at Centre Pompidou (Paris), Palazzo Reale and Teatro Nuovo in Milan, Quinta da Regaleria Palace a Sintra (Portugal) and to create musical projects in Kazakistan, Philippines and Romania. In 2011 SKY classical produced and broadcast a documentary about his second opera Samaritani.

Icon Sonic Operas

 * KOLOT: icon/sonic opera N.1, for 12 traditional singers, soloists ensemble, video & electronics. Premiere: Opening event of REC festival, Cavalerizza reale, Reggio Emilia, Italy; Teatro dal Verme, Milan, Italy; opening event of the XXVI edition of the European Theatre Festival, Teatro Due, Parma, Spazio Grande Teatro 2 Parma, Italy 2008. Conductors: Yuval Avital, Nori Jacoby.
 * SAMARITANS: icon/sonic opera N.2, for a soloists ensemble, Samaritans choir, video & electronics. Conductor: Massimo Mazza. Premiere: MiTo SettembreMusica Festival, Teatro Nuovo, Milan, Italy, September 2010.
 * LEILIT: nocturno icon/sonic opera N.3 for a recorders consort: contrabass in F, bass in C, bass in F, tenor, soprano & 2 sopranino;  accordion consort (7 elements); piano; bowed piano; guitar soloist; 2 Keis cantors & Video (2011).


 * Noise for Syd: icon/sonic opera N.4 for 7 musicians,light designer, visual artist, 2 dancers, video & electronics. Premiere: Festival Aperto, Cavalerizza reale, Reggio Emilia, Italy, 2013.


 * ALMA MATER - in dialogue with “Il Terzo Paradiso” by Michelangelo Pistoletto: icon-sonic installation for a forest of 140 loudspeakers, legendary étoile of Teatro alla Scala and lacemakers . First edition under the patronage of EXPO 2015 and the city of Milan, July 8 - August 29, La Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan, Italy.

Premiere: Teatro Comunale “L. Pavarotti” Modena, Italy 12 March 2016.
 * Fuga Perpetua: icon-sonic Opera for an ensemble, visuals, mobile sound theater and a vocal crowd. Performing: Meitar Ensemble, with the sponsorship of UNHCR and of the International Theatre Institute, UNESCO.

Compositions for indigenous ensemble
Works for indigenous ensembles involve contemporary music and ancient traditions, they are a big part of Avital’s creations and researches. These projects seek dialogue between cultures which seem distant in the common imaginary and the enhancement of unknown traditions. They enrich the contemporary musical language by presenting exiting sonorities, diverse esthetics, new instruments and vocal styles. Hence, contemporary works with ancient traditions or indigenous ensembles bring with them a meaningful value from a social, ethical, cultural and musical point of view.
 * Slow Horizons: music for 12 Kazakh indigenous players, storyteller, 2 dancers, Almaty, Kazakhstan, "Nauryz 21" Central Asia 21 century music in May 2006.


 * After the darkness: closing event for the 2nd International Rondalla Festival, Bogio, Philippines, February 2007.Yuval Avital - composition, direction, Yizhar Karshon - harpsichord; male choir, indigenous gongs & bamboo ensemble from the town of Bogio.


 * Lefkara Moirai: for traditionals ensemble, 2 singers, guitar, 12 craftsmen, video, narrator, and live electronics. Premiere: Lefkara Festival, Lefkara, Cyprus 2009.

Orchestra

 * OTOT: icon-sonic symphony for extended chamber orchestra, 5 percussions, 3 accordions, visuals & live electronics. World premiere: opening of the symphonic season of Teatro Sociale di Como, Italy, January 2013.

Soloist with orchestra

 * Hope studies
 * Concert for viola & orchestra (2010-2012)

Chamber music

 * Music for 7 N.1 - "Cycles" for seven tenor recorders ensemble. In memory of Jose Monserrat Maceda. Premiere: RomaEuropa Festival, Teatro Palladium, Rome, Italy, October 2011. Performing: The Running Seven Recorders Ensemble.


 * Music for 7 N.2 - "Modus benedictus" for seven cellos. In memory of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, 2009.


 * Music for 7 N.3 - "Un porto griggio" for seven contrabass tuba. Dedicated to Bjork (2009/2014). Conductor: Antonio Macciomei. Premiere: 4° Italian Low Brass Festival, Auditorium G.Verdi, Segrate, Italy, April 2014.


 * Music for 7 N.4 - "Al mishkavi" for 7 copper plates and seven voices. Dedicated to Shlomo Avital (2008 - 2009).


 * Music for 7 N.5 - "Sunset" for 7 violins. In memory of Abel Ehrlich (2010).


 * Music for 7 N.6 - "Horror vacui" for seven accoridons. Dedicated to Pauline Oliveros (2011). Premiere: RomaEuropa Festival, Teatro Palladium, Roma, Italy, October 2011. Performing: Sergio Scappini, Michele Bracciali, Nadio Marenco, Giancarlo Calabria, Augusto Comminesi, Paolo Vignani.


 * Seven demons of drought for piano and percussions, 2010.

Solo works

 * DIMDUM for bass flute (2010). Premiere: Frazione Saliana, Pianello del Lario, Como, 2011. Soloist: Gianluigi Nuccini.
 * "Dream, shadows and passages", piano sonata (2010-2011). Premiere: RomaEuropa Festival, Teatro Palladium, Roma, Ottobre 2011. Performing: Maria Grazia Bellocchio.
 * Utopie N.1 for percussions, video & Tape. Premiere: Conservatorio G. Verdi, Milan, Italy. 04/09/2013. Performing: Lorenzo Colombo.
 * KANAF for Bass clarinet, tape & live electronics (2011-13). Premiere: Spain 2015. Performing: Paolo de Gaspari

Installations & live performance

 * “Background” for ensemble and tape, Biella, 2006.


 * Cariatidi Sonore Premiere : special production for the Notte Bianca festival, Stazione Ostiense, Roma, Italy, 2007.


 * Masà for Tape, live electronics, guitar, and various electro-acoustic instruments. Premiere: Sala Puccini, Milan 2008, in collaboration with Riccardo Sinigaglia.


 * Kanaf for elaborated bass clarinet & taper. Clarinet: Paolo de Gasperi (2011).


 * Alpha - Uniform infinite sonic tree for 8 speakers and artificial intelligence system in collaboration with Giovanni Cospito, 2012.


 * Spaces, unfolded for infinite sonic tree for 8 speakers (in collaboration with Giovanni Cospito). Premiere: Bergamo science festival, December 2012.


 * Utopie N.1 for percussions, video & Tape. Soloist: Lorenzo Colombo. Premiere: Conservatorio G. Verdi, Milan, Italy, September 2013.


 * Silent Quartet - Icon/sonic chamber work for string quartet, video, tape & live electronics. Performers: Xenia Ensemble. Premiere: Est-Ovest Festival (commission), Turin & Genoa, Italy, October 2014.

Electronic works

 * Yom (2007)
 * Ensof (2007)
 * Caves of Winds (2008)
 * Voices never-ending (2008)
 * Shir leShlomo (2014)

Music for Dance/Theater

 * Bdidut: with choreographer & Dancer Chiara Rosenthal, Insoliti International Festival and the XXVII International Review of Integrated Arts and Dance “Il gesto e l'anima”, Teatro nuovo, Turin, Italy 2004.
 * Hamesh: for two actors, guitar, percussions, winds and electronic music (composed by Y.A, texts curated by A. Mazzolotti), World Premiere: 4 September 2005, Vercelli, Italy.
 * Music for choreography of Cave Canem by Avi kaisere and Sergio Antonino, for guitar, electronics and dancer choir. Germany, 2007.
 * Music for the theater show "L’ultimo viaggio di Sinbad" by Erri De Luca, Italy, 2009. Live electronics. Director: Marcello Zagaria. Premiere “Festa del teatro 2009” - IV edition, Spazio MIL, Milan, Italy.
 * Corpo: installation for two dancers, video & live electronics, Fondazione A. Pomodoro, Milan, Italy, 2010.
 * Music for the theater show "Una notte in Tunisia" by Vitaliano Trevisan. Director: Andrée Ruth Shammah. Italy, 2011.

Massive sonic work
Premiere : 26/01/2012 | Closing concert Dirty corner by Anish Kapoor | La Fabbrica del Vapore | Milan, Italy. Conductors : Sandro Gorli, Dario Garegnani, Elena Casella.
 * Mise en abîme - massive sonic work n.1. For a crowd of 100 people, 34 accordions, 2 bass tuba, bass clarinet, soprano, percussions, didgeridoo & four conductors (2011). Premiere: March 2011 | Recording in RAI (Italian National Broadcast Network) studios | Milan, Italy. Conductors : Sandro Gorli, Pilar Bravo, Nicola Scaldaferri, Dario Garegnani.
 * GARON - massive sonic work n.2. For 40 tubas, 5 contrabass tuba soloists, 6 percussions, choir, extended vocal technique soloists & live electronics. (2012), a dialogue between instruments that amplify spectator's experience, dedicated to Anish Kapoor.
 * KARAGATAN - massive sonic work n.3. For 100 traditional gong & bamboo performers. Premiere : 21/01/2013 | Closing concert of Tunog Tugan Festival| Dipolog City| Mindanao, Philippines. Conductor : Chino Toledo.
 * REKA - massive sonic work n.4. For six traditional singers, two percussions and a crowd of hundreds of people . Commissioned by Warsaw Autumn Festival. Premiere: September 2014 | MITO SettembreMusica & Warsaw Autumn Festivals | Milan, Italy & Warsaw, Poland.

Guitar
Graduated in the Jerusalem music Academy and later being a part of Angelo Gilardino soloists class, under the tutorship of M° Angelo Gilardino & M° Luigi Biscaldi, Avital performed around the world for several years. Afther that he has focused on creating his own original composition and on collaboration with masters and soloist of both creative and traditional music. Avital uses elements from the tradition of stringed instruments in the Middle East, Central Asia and Far East, combined with extended techniques for classical guitar.

Noha Guitar
Avital began his collaboration with Noah Guitars in 2012. Noah is an experimental luthier laboratory based in Milan, with the aim to create a new and innovative electric guitars. Following Avital's instructions, Noha created a guitar whose first experimental model was delivered to Avital in July 2012 and used during the summer tour of the duo Yuval Avital & Wisam Gibran. The final model has been put in production in late 2013.

Collaborations
Yuval Avital’s work is focused on the research of intercultural relations, based on dialogue as a way to show hidden symmetries and complementarity inherent in the culture. Avital’s operas try to unite, through an ideal “bridge”, non-western musical cultures, traditional artists and custodians of ancient cultures around the world. His research of new forms of musical expressions through dialogue gave birth, in 2006, to Trialogo Festival, where masters of ancient traditions, dance, jazz, classical and electric music and many other discipline meet to create a new opera or a common project.