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
Britten's pacifist masterwork, combining war poetry by Wilfred Owen with the Latin Requiem Mass, is included in the Masterworks Library of full scores, ideal for conductors, students and music lovers.
