Aviya Kopelman

Aviya Kopelman

Aviya Kopelman (born in Moscow 1978) is an Israeli composer and pianist. She is one of the youngest ever Israel Prime Minister Prize for Composition recipients and serves since 2013 as composer-in-residence of the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra. Kopelman's musical education started with piano lessons and she is listed as a "notable alumna of Israel Arts and Science Academy", where she studied with prof. Andre Hajdu, prof. Bat-Sheva Rubinstein and prof. Michael Wolpe. She holds degrees in composition from Jerusalem Music and Dance Academy, Bar-Ilan University (MA Summa Cum Laude, PhD in progress). She was a lecturer in Hed College of Music in 2003–2007 and a senior lecturer, as well as academic advisor and master-classes curator in Rimon School of Music in 2006–2014. She gives lectures and courses in major academic institutions in Israel, including Jerusalem Music and Dance Academy, Buchmann-Mehta School of Tel Aviv University, Haifa University, Levinsky College, Musrara College, Bar-Ilan University Music Department, Van Leer Institute, and more. As a Composer-in-Residence of the Jerusalem Symphony Kopelman enlarged (at least doubled) and significantly widened the Israeli music repertoire performed by the orchestra, allowing many young composers as well as to female composers to be performed by a professional symphony orchestra for their first time. In 2019-2020 she was a recipient of two prestigious residencies: one was at Magnes Museum of the University of California, Berkeley and the Israel Institute. The other one was six months residency in Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris.

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