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.