Yuval Shay-El (b. 1963), is a multidisciplinary creator, composer, pianist, trumpet player and physicist, who lives in Israel. He owns a master’s degree in music composition from Boston University where he studied composition with Lucas Foss and Charles Fussell and a PhD in geophysics from Tel-Aviv University. As a jazz musician, he has performed for over 20 years with several bands on both trumpet and piano. His modern-classical compositions were performed in Boston and in Israel by prestigi...
Yuval Shay-El (b. 1963), is a multidisciplinary creator, composer, pianist, trumpet player and physicist, who lives in Israel. He owns a master’s degree in music composition from Boston University where he studied composition with Lucas Foss and Charles Fussell and a PhD in geophysics from Tel-Aviv University. As a jazz musician, he has performed for over 20 years with several bands on both trumpet and piano. His modern-classical compositions were performed in Boston and in Israel by prestigious ensembles, including Musica-Nova Consort and the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra Chamber Series, and were broadcast on leading Israeli radio stations. His recent composition is Symphony No. 1 for symphonic orchestra in four movements (duration ca. 48 minutes). At the same time he pursued an active career as a scientist with publications in some of the major scientific journals. Among his recorded CDs, recommended are “Summer ’97” (1998), a nocturnal jazz piano-guitar duet, “One Song One Dance” (2002), with the Atmos Trio, and “Yuval Shay-El” (2006, available on cd-baby site), which includes original compositions for various chamber ensembles, thus revealing a completely different facet of the music of Yuval Shay-El.
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