graduated from the Jerusalem Rubin Academy of Music and Dance, where he studied composition under the tutorship of Paul Ben-Haim and conducting with Eitan Lustig * has also received academic degrees in architecture, urban planning, and philosophy * served as Chairman of the Israel Composers’ League and of the Israeli Section of ISCM * Professor of Music and Composition at the Jerusalem Rubin Academy of Music and Dance and at the Samuel Rubin Israel Academy of Music, Tel-Aviv University, which he headed between 1993–1998 and again from August 2000 * in addition to many performances in Israel, his output as a composer is heard in Western and Eastern Europe, the United States, South America, China, Japan and Korea * wrote several standard pieces for international competitions * is also the author of a monumental and exhaustive work on Richard Wagner, the only major contribution to the subject in the Hebrew language
