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== External links ==
== External links ==
* [http://www.jorgelidermanmusic.com// Jorge Liderman, Official Website]
* [http://www.jorgelidermanmusic.com// Jorge Liderman, Official Website]
* [http://www.sfcv.org/2008/02/05/in-memoriam-jorge-liderman/ obit at SF Classical Voice]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20080210154720/http://www.sfcv.org/2008/02/05/in-memoriam-jorge-liderman/ obit at SF Classical Voice]
* [http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2008/02/06_liderman.shtml UCB press release]
* [http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2008/02/06_liderman.shtml UCB press release]
* [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/02/05/BA7DUS2BC.DTL Chronicle update]
* [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/02/05/BA7DUS2BC.DTL Chronicle update]

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Jorge Mario Liderman (November 16, 1957 – February 3, 2008) was an Argentine-born American composer. He was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship in 2003 and taught composition at the University of California, Berkeley.

Life

Jorge Liderman was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1957. He studied at the Rubin School of Music in Jerusalem and earned a doctorate in composition from the University of Chicago in 1988. He joined the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley in 1989.

He died February 3, 2008 in an apparent suicide, struck by an incoming Richmond-bound train at the El Cerrito Plaza Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) station in El Cerrito.[1]

Selected works

Orchestral

  • Shir Eres (1984)
  • Song of Songs (2001), cantata for soprano, tenor, female chorus & chamber orchestra
  • Open Strings for guitar orchestra & electric bass

Operatic

Chamber

  • Aires de Sefarad (2004) - 46 Sephardic songs for Duo46, violin and guitar
  • Aires de Sefarad II (2007) - 46 Sephardic songs for Duo46, violin and guitar
  • Draft (1998) for piano, violin and tuned percussion
  • Furthermore. . . (2006) concerto for violin and chamber ensemble
  • Piano Quintet (2002)
  • Puncti, Belly, Etc., Etc... (1986)
  • String Quartet No. 1 (1985)
  • String Quartet No. 3 (1994)
  • Swirling Streams, for guitar, bass clarinet & string trio
  • That is already... for solo piano
  • Tropes IV (1994) for solo piano
  • Walking Dances for David Tanenbaum, guitar
  • Wind Up Toys for two pianos
  • Yzkor (1991)

Notes

  1. ^ SFGate.com. "Composer Liderman dies in apparent suicide" February 4, 2008.