Discipline: Music Composition

Lior Navok

Discipline: Music Composition
Region: Tel Aviv, ISRAEL
MacDowell Fellowships: 2002, 2004, 2006, 2007
More: www.liornavok.com
Lior Navok is an Israeli classical composer, conductor, and pianist. He was born in Tel Aviv. His music has been performed internationally by orchestras and ensembles including the Oper Frankfurt, Nuernberg Opera, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, and the Tanglewood Festival Orchestra. Amongst the awards he has received are those from the Israel Cultural Excellence Foundation and the Massachusetts Cultural Council. He has also received awards from the Fromm Music Foundation, Lili Boulanger Memorial Fund Award, and Israel Prime Minister Award. In 2004, he was one of seven composers awarded commissions for new musical works by the Serge Koussevitzky Foundation in the Library of Congress and the Koussevitzky Music Foundation. Navok is the pianist and founding member of the Butterfly Effect Ensemble which specializes in creating live scores for silent films from the early days of the cinema up to 1929.

Studios

Watson

Lior Navok worked in the Watson studio.

Built in 1916 in memory of Regina Watson of Chicago, a musician and teacher, this studio was donated by a group of her friends, along with funds for its maintenance. Originally designed to serve as a composers’ studio with room for performance, Watson was used as a recital hall for chamber music for a…

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