Yehudi Wyner

Yehudi Wyner studied at Harvard University and Yale University. Training under Paul Hindemith is recorded. The recorded working language is English. Employment is recorded with Harvard University, Brandeis University and Yale University. Distinctions recorded are Rome Prize, Pulitzer Prize for Music, Stoeger Prize and Arts and Letters Award in Music.

• Name — Yehudi Wyner • Born — 1 June 1929 • Birthplace — Calgary, Alberta, Canada • Education — * Juilliard School • Yale University • Harvard University • Spouse — Susan Davenny-Wyner • Relatives — Lazar Weiner (father) • Awards — Pulitzer Prize for Music (2006)

Wyner, who grew up in New York City, was raised in a musical family. His father, Lazar Weiner, was an eminent composer of Yiddish art songs. Wyner attended Juilliard, Yale, and Harvard, and was a student of Paul Hindemith and Walter Piston. He has written music in a variety of genres, including compositions for orchestra, chamber ensembles, solo voice, and solo instruments, as well as theatrical music and settings of the Jewish liturgy. Among his best-known works are Friday Evening Service (1963), "Torah Service with Instruments" (1966) for cantor and chorus, and On This Most Voluptuous Night (1982) for soprano and chamber ensemble. Wyner taught for 14 years at Yale, where he was the head of the composition faculty. He also taught at SUNY Purchase, Cornell, Brandeis, and Harvard. In 2006, Wyner won the Pulitzer Prize for Music for his piano concerto Chiavi in Mano.

From 1951 to 1966 Wyner was married to Nancy Braverman (Wyner), with whom he had three children. He married soprano Susan Davenny-Wyner in 1967. He graduated from Yale University and Harvard University.

• Partita for piano (1952) • Concert duo for violin and piano (1956) • Serenade for flute, horn, trumpet, trombone, viola, cello, piano (1958) • Torah Service with Instruments (1966) • The Mirror (1972–73) • Intermedio, lyric ballet for soprano and strings (1974) • The Grass is High for voice and piano (1979) • String Quartet (1984–85) • Composition for viola and piano (1987) • Trapunto Junction for trumpet, French horn, trombone, and percussion • Amadeus' billiard: for violin, viola, bass, bassoon, and two horns (cf. Mozart—Divertimento no. 7, K. 205) (1991) • Prologue and narrative for cello and orchestra (1994) • Horntrio (1997) • The second madrigal for women's voices (1999) • Quartet for oboe and string trio (1999) • Commedia: for clarinet in B-flat and piano (2003) • Chiavi in Mano for piano and orchestra (2004) • Give Thanks for All Things for orchestra and chorus (2010) • TRIO 2009 for clarinet, cello and piano (2010) • Fantasy on B.A.C.H. for piano (2010) • Fragments from Antiquity for soprano and orchestra (revised 2011) • The Lord is close to the Heartbroken for chorus, harp, and percussion (2012) • Concordance for violin, viola, cello, and piano (2012) • Save me O God; Psalm 49 for chorus a cappella (2012) • Refrain for solo piano (2012) • Into the evening air for wind quintet (2013) • West of the Moon for guitar, mandolin, flute, oboe, violin, and cello (2013) • Sonnet: In the arms of Sleep for soprano, two mezzo sopranos, flute, clarinet, violin, viola, cello, and harp (2015) • Duologue for two pianos (2016) • Hobson Preludes for piano (2016) • Concertino for piano, flute, clarinet, violin, and cello (2017) • Maze 2 for orchestra and young string soloists (2018) • 4x20 for Christoph Wolff for piano (2020) • O Lord do not forsake me, motet for a cappella voices (2020) • Concord 7 for flute, oboe, clarinet, violin, viola, cello, and piano (2020, revised 2021) • Richard Pittman...Come Back! for orchestra (2022) • Sequel for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, marimba, and piano (2022) • Draw Onward for piano (2022) • Cool Runnin for piano (2023) • Duo Concertino for viola, piano, and string orchestra (2024)

• Yale University, M.Mus. (1953) • Harvard University, M.A. (1952) • Yale University, B.Mus. (1951) • Yale University, B.A. (1950) • Juilliard School, Diploma (1946)

Yehudi Wyner is recorded as having received Rome Prize, Pulitzer Prize for Music and Stoeger Prize. Recognition and collections. Wyner received Rome Prize, Pulitzer Prize for Music, Stoeger Prize, Arts and Letters Award in Music and Guggenheim Fellowship.