Biographical information

Studied under the Professor of Composition and Music Theory Leon Schidlowsky (active also in graphic multi-media and the fine arts) at the Rubin Academy of Music in Tel Aviv University

Compositions written by Avrahami have received radio broadcasts in Israel, Holland,Germany Scotland,Turkey and Hong Kong
He has stated that his greatest musical influences are Alban Berg

Alban Berg

Alban Maria Johannes Berg was an Austrian composer. He was a member of the Second Viennese School with Arnold Schoenberg and Anton Webern, and produced compositions that combined Mahlerian Romanticism with a personal adaptation of Schoenberg's twelve-tone technique.-Early life:Berg was born in...

,who studied with Arnold Schoenberg

Arnold Schoenberg

Arnold Schoenberg was an Austrian composer, associated with the expressionist movement in German poetry and art, and leader of the Second Viennese School...

(associated with German Expressionism

German Expressionism

German Expressionism refers to a number of related creative movements beginning in Germany before the First World War that reached a peak in Berlin, during the 1920s...

) for six years, and Olivier Messiaen

Olivier Messiaen

Olivier Messiaen was a French composer, organist and ornithologist, one of the major composers of the 20th century. His music is rhythmically complex ; harmonically and melodically it is based on modes of limited transposition, which he abstracted from his early compositions and improvisations...

 (a person who stated his experiences of synaesthesia influenced his composing activities).
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 the 30th 2005.

See also

Art music

Art music

Art music is an umbrella term used to refer to musical traditions implying advanced structural and theoretical considerations and a written musical tradition...

 

Contemporary Jewish religious music

Contemporary Jewish religious music

For the purposes of this article, “contemporary” refers to the period from 1967 to the present day, “Jewish” refers to the various streams and traits of Judaism practiced. Many Orthodox Jews use the term “religious” to refer to a strict adherence to Jewish law...

Composition (visual arts)

Composition (visual arts)

In the visual arts – in particular painting, graphic design, photography and sculpture – composition is the placement or arrangement of visual elements or ingredients in a work of art or a photograph, as distinct from the subject of a work...

Musical composition

Musical composition

Musical composition can refer to an original piece of music, the structure of a musical piece, or the process of creating a new piece of music. People who practice composition are called composers.- Musical compositions :...

List of Israeli classical composers

External links

• Israel music Centre a list of compositions

• http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=http://www.compositiontoday.com/show_video.asp%3Fvideo_id%3D398027&ei=HgdhTsq3FcKg8QOVppztDw&sa=X&oi=translate&ct=result&resnum=4&sqi=2&ved=0CC8Q7gEwAw&prev=/search%3Fq%3DGad%2BAvrahami%2B//%2BSerenade%26hl%3Den%26biw%3D1075%26bih%3D771%26prmd%3Divnso + + http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SZXP_UgSog are youtube Internet broadcasts