Yaron Deutsch


Yaron Deutsch is an Israeli guitarist mainly active in contemporary classical music and artistic director of Ensemble Nikel.

Biography

Yaron Deutsch was born in Tel-Aviv in 1978 and studied guitar at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance.

Career

In 2006, he founded the Tel-Aviv based ensemble for contemporary music Nikel. With this ensemble, he gave premieres of pieces by Michael Beil, Franck Bedrossian, Pierluigi Billone, Raphaël Cendo, Chaya Czernowin, Clemens Gadenstätter, Bernard Gander, Philippe Hurel, Eduardo Moguillansky, Marco Momi, Helmut Oehring, Stefan Prins, and Michael Wertmüller.
In 2007, he founded the international contemporary music festival Tzlil Meudcan which takes places every early July in Tel-Aviv. The festival also proposes summer courses for young composers.
He played with numerous ensembles and orchestras under conductors such as Sylvain Cambreling, Peter Eötvös, Zubin Mehta, Emilio Pomàrico, Peter Rundel, Ilan Volkov & Bas Wiegers.
Deutsch was appointed professor of contemporary music at the Hochschule für Musik in Basel in 2021.

Selected discography

33RPM, music by Steve Reich, Marco Mommi, Tristan Murail and Clemens Gadenstätter Almost Nowhere, music by Marco Momi, KairosAugmented, music by Stefan Prins, KairosOm On, music by Pierluigi Billone with Tom Pauwels, KairosA Decade with Ensemble Nikel, music by Stefan Prins, Michael Wertmüller and others Sgorgo Y. N. oO, music by Pierluigi Billone, KairosFremdkörper, music by Stefan Prins, Sub Rosa

Videos

Yaron Deutsch: Live in New York City, directed by H. Paul Moon, live performance at TIME:SPANS Music FestivalStefan Prins - under_current, with Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Ilan Volkov, live performance at Donaueschinger MusiktageSteve Reich - Electric Counterpoint, live performance at Felicja Blumental Music CenterStefan Prins - Not I, live recording at Studio Entropya/PerugiaAndreas Dohmen - a doppio movimento, with SWR Experimentalstudio conducted by Ilan Volkov, live performance at the Donaueschinger Musiktage