Ruben Seroussi
Guitar, composer
"Ruben Seroussi's works bring to light his vivid, fascinating and often
surprising imagination. His work has no national orientation, either in
melos or language, nor does he relate to the reality that surrounds him.
Most of his works are complex, sophisticated and rather clever.
They are abstract in style and require no text. They do however have
a link with the past. There is an all embracing protest to be found in
his music; yet the sources of inspiration from other arts forms are clearly
to be seen. Literature, poetry, painting and even film are a presence.
Seroussi is a many-sided and thoughtful artist whose statement is basically
intellectual-poetic."
From the jury's appreciation, Israel Prime Minister Prize, December 1994
Ruben Seroussi is one of Israel's leading classical guitar players, concertizing in the country and abroad. He currently teaches composition, theoretic subjects and guitar at the Rubin Academy of Music and the Musicology Department at Tel Aviv University. Mr. Seroussi won the Prime Minister's Award for Composition, 1994.
He was born in Montevideo, Uruguay in 1959, and has lived in Israel since 1974. He studied guitar with Fernando Diaz and Fernando Diaz, and composition with Jan Radzinsky, Sergiu Natra and Leon Shidlowsky, taking degrees at the Rubin Academy of Music, Tel-Aviv.
His performing career has taken him to the USA, Germany, Poland, Luxembourg and Greece.
Seroussi's many compositions, listed on his web site, include works for combinations of solo instruments, orchestra, chamber and vocal groups.
"Far more appealing was an instrumental work, Ruben Seroussi's 1982 'Canto al Antiguo Sol' (Song to the Ancient Sun). A fusion of would-be primitive and modern musical impulses, this ritualistic parade of events is sometimes dense with aural information, but the sounds themselves (i.e., two oboes in Arabic dissonant seconds over the rumbling of drums) are often so otherwordly in effect that the ear has no trouble following their progress."
Chicago Tribune, June 11, 1984
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