Ronn Yedidia was born in Tel Aviv, Israel in 1960. His compositions have galvanized the attention of performing artists worldwide during the last two decades. His works have been featured in major concert halls and documented on film, radio and television. He has won high critical acclaim from leading newspapers around the world, as both composer and pianist.
He began his musical career as a child prodigy pianist, winning 1st Prize at the Young Concert Artists' Competition of Israel at the age of eight. His main teacher and mentor was Israel's first lady of the piano, Pnina Salzman, who herself was a protege of Alfred Cortot. Active as a performer for many years, Ronn decided at the age of 15 to shift his attention towards composition. In 1984 he entered the Juilliard School from which he holds a Doctor of Musical Arts Degree in composition. During his studies there under David Diamond and Milton Babbitt he received all the major prizes in composition, including the Lincoln Center Scholarship, the Irving Berlin Scholarship, the Henry Mancini Prize, and the Richard Rodgers Scholarship.
Soon after Ronn Yedidia's arrival at Juilliard, he was discovered by Sony Classical's Executive Producer, Thomas Frost, who produced a recording of his Fusion-Jazz works. In 1985, his Second Piano Sonata was selected for radio exchange between Israel and numerous countries around the world. In 1987 he was presented on Israeli Television as Discovery of the Year in Classical Music, performing his Third Piano Sonata "Outcries".
Ronn Yedidia's awards include the 2006 San Antonio International Piano Competition Commission for which he composed his Rhapsody - which was performed by all finalists of the competition; 2002 commissions from the Zamir Chorale and from the Oklahoma City Community Fund; a 1998 America-Israel Cultural Foundation Commission; a 1997 BMI Grant; 1997 Honors at the John Lennon International Songwriting contest; a 1992 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship; First Prize at the 1992 Chicago Ensemble's First Discover America Competition; First Prize at the 1991 New Sounds Competition in Louisville, Kentucky; an ASCAP Grant in 1990 for his Piano Sonata No. 3, "Outcries"; the Milton Babbitt Prize in 1989 and the 1988 Brian Israel Award.
More of late, the Seattle Chamber Music Society has selected Ronn Yedidia to be its first ever commissioned composer - for the 26th Summer Festival held in Seattle in 2007. He has composed a Trio for clarinet, cello and piano for the occasion.
His compositions have been broadcast on New York radio stations WNYC, WNCN, WFUV & WQXR, and he has been featured on NBC & WOR television networks in the U.S. and on both KBS-TV and MBC-TV in South Korea. His works have received critical acclaim throughout the world. The Los Angeles Times has cited "Yedidia's wealth of invention and compact construction" in the Concerto for Piano, Electronic Instruments, Choir & Orchestra, describing it as "...a recasting of the Lisztian virtuoso Piano Concerto in a contemporary medium," and concluding that "...the composer has his own voice."
In 1994 Ronn Yedidia was invited by Thomas Frost and Wanda Toscanini-Horowitz to edit and record the unpublished piano compositions of the legendary pianist Vladimir Horowitz. Ronn's friendship with the great Israeli composer, the late Alexander Argov gave rise to the project in which he has been the editor and transcriber of a collection of songs by Argov, which has been published by GIA Productions in Israel.
In 1993 Ronn founded the concert series 20th Century Music & On which presents a diverse cross-section of contemporary music in New York, and for which he has been composing his recent large-scale chamber works.
Between 1993 and 1998 he served as Composer in Residence and Chairman of the Piano Department at the Bloomingdale House of Music in Manhattan. A piano pedagogue of note, his students have been recognized in numerous competitions and festivals throughout the U.S. and Europe. Between 2001 and 2004, he served as Vice President and Program Director of the Piano Teachers Congress of New York. Since the summer of 2003, he has served as Piano and Composition Professor at the Puigcerda Festival of Classical Music - situated in the Catalan region of Spain and France.
Ronn Yedidia is regarded by many also as an accordion virtuoso. He started playing the accordion at the age of 6 under the direction of his father, Moshe Yedidia - who was a well-known poet, actor, and accordionist in Israel. Since 2001, he has been involved in the creation of several klezmer ensembles in the New York area, both as an accordionist and as a musical arranger.
A more recent facet in Ronn's musical life has been popular-style singing. He has composed more than 150 songs and has had several writers adapt lyrics to them. Most of those lyrics are in Hebrew. On May 5, 2007 he appeared for the first time as a singer with a band - featuring 20 of his songs in a special concert held at Tel Aviv's famous pop music venue - Tzavta 1.
That first week of May, 2007 has also marked Ronn Yedidia's debut with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra - under the baton of Maestro George Pehlivanian. IPO premiered Yedidia's symphonic work "Steps in the Wonderland" on four different subscription concerts in the main halls of Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and Haifa.
Ronn's association with jazz pianist and composer Haim Cotton has led to the inception of the New York Piano Academy - a school and method which is devoted to the teachings of both classical and jazz piano disciplines. Their method defines the common grounds between classical and jazz, and qualifies piano students of all levels in both disciplines. The New York Piano Academy has been open to the public since September, 2005, and is in residence at Manhattan's West End Presbyterian Church on the upper west side.
Ronn Yedidia's first Compact Disc recording entitled "Yedidia Plays Yedidia" was released in March, 2001 on the Altarus label (AIR-CD-9078) and is available from Albany Music Distributors (518-436-8814), Records International (888-804-5513), and on Amazon.com. His popular "Lullabye" is featured on EMI Classics' Ahn Trio "Groovebox" CD and is available from all record stores worldwide. His music is distributed through the publishing company Verse Music, in affiliation with BMI.
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thank u for your friendship ronn. music is a great ambassador for peace and i'm proud to have you in my list. hoping to listen live soon to your music i send you all my best wishes. shalom
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Matt 28:5-6 And the angel answered and said unto the women, Fear not ye: for I know that ye seek Jesus, which was crucified.
Matt 28:6 He is not here: for he is risen, as he said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay.
Easter is a holiday when most people think of the Easter bunny, decorating eggs, dressing up in your best Sunday outfit and going to church.
Easter should be more than just another holiday to a Christian. It's the Sunday set aside to recognize the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ. GOD sent his WORD in the form of a child, being born to Mary the Virgin as God's only Begotten Son. He lived a very short time on earth, having been a carpenter and then God's messenger the last three years or so of his life. He was crucified, nailing all our sins to the cross, covering them with his precious blood. If we believe on him, accept his free gift of salvation, then we too will see him in all his Glory one day!
Jesus was compelled to bear his own cross, to travel to Golgotha, where they placed upon his head a crown of thorns and proclaimed him "THIS IS JESUS THE KING OF THE JEWS!". They placed him between two thieves hanging on a cross, drove nails through his hands and feet, later piercing his side to make sure he was dead. They took his garments to draw lots to see who would get them.
Mark 15:33 And when the sixth hour was come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour.
Mark 15:34 And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? which is, being interpreted, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? "
He was mocked and given vinegar to drink instead of water.
John 19:28 After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, saith, I thirst.
John 19:30 When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.
