Ами Мааяни

Architect and composer both, Ami Maayani studied violin, viola and conducting at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and composition with Paul Ben-Haim and conducting with Eitan Lustig, took his architectural training at the Technion in Haifa, and continued in the United States, where electronic music entered his hearing. His works include Qumran, a guitar concerto and a substantial body of harp music. He founded and conducted youth orchestras in Tel Aviv and Haifa, taught theory and composition, and chaired the Israel Composers' League more than once. He was born in Ramat Gan in 1936 and died in 2019. His electroacoustic studies were made with Vladimir Ussachevsky at Columbia University, and the Technion Symphony Orchestra was among the ensembles he built. As professor of composition and conducting at the music academy of Tel Aviv University he directed the institution from 1993 to 1998 and again from 2000 to 2004.