Moshe Zorman

Moshe Zorman was born in 1952 in Holon

Moshe Zorman was born on 15 May 1952 in Holon. His parents were survivors of the Warsaw Ghetto. He attended Kugel High School.

He studied piano and composition at the Rubin Academy of Music in Tel Aviv, with teachers including Leon Schidlowsky, and also studied with Tzvi Avni. He then earned a doctorate at the City University of New York, studying with George Perle. He also worked with John Cage in Banff, Canada, and with Mario Davidovsky in Vermont.

In his army service he arranged music for military ensembles. He worked with Rafi Ben Moshe, Moshe Wilensky and Gil Aldema.

He returned to Israel in 1985 and taught at Tel Aviv University. From 1990 to 1996 he headed the music school at the Levinsky College of Education, where he later became a professor and led a master's track in music therapy. Since 2022 he has been a professor of orchestration at Tel Aviv University.

His works include 14 operas, among them "The Inn of Spirits" after Natan Alterman's play, plus symphonies, concertos and choral music. In 2007 he released a disc with Anne Sofie von Otter on Deutsche Grammophon of his arrangements of songs by Theresienstadt Ghetto composers.