Gad Avrahami

Gad Avrahami is a composer active in Israel and elsewhere.

Biographical information

Studied under the Professor of Composition and Music Theory Leon Schidlowsky at the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music in Tel Aviv University.
Compositions written by Avrahami have received radio broadcasts in Israel, the Netherlands, Germany, Scotland, Turkey and Hong Kong.
He has stated that his greatest musical influences are Alban Berg, who studied with Arnold Schoenberg for six years, and Olivier Messiaen.
In 1997 and also 2005 he received the Israeli Prime Minister award. The award ceremony took place at the Israel Music Conservatory, Tel Aviv, on June 30, 2005.