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Betty Olivero
12+ albums
contemporary classicalisraeliClassicalpianochamber
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Betty Olivero is a contemporary Israeli composer, who has lived during most of her career in Florence, Italy. In Olivero's works, traditional and ethnic music materials are processed using western contemporary compositional techniques; traditional melodies and texts undergo processes of development, adaptation, transformation, assimilation, resetting and re-composition, to the point of assuming new forms in different contexts. These processes touch on wide and complex areas of contrast, such as east and west, holy and secular, traditional and new. Olivero was awarded the Fromm Award by the Fromm Music Foundation (USA, 1986), the Koussevitzky Award by the Koussevitzky Music Foundation (USA, 2000), the Prime Minister's Prize (Israel, 2001), the Rosenblum Award for the Performing Arts (Israel, 2003), the Landau Award for the Performing Arts (Israel, 2004), the ACUM prize for Life Achievements (Israel, 2004) and the Prime Minister's Prize (Israel, 2009). Olivero is currently living in Israel. She is a mother of two children and an associate professor of composition at the Music Department in Bar-Ilan University. Between 2004-2008 Olivero was composer-in-residence for the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra. "I find the process of confronting and juxtaposing traditional, formal means with contemporary vocabulary to be highly challenging and of great curiosity. One of the most fundamental issues in my work, and the aim of my musical creation, is to use traditional, ethnic music material
