Yohanan Chendler

Yohanan Chendler

Yohanan Chendler, violinist and composer, was born in Jerusalem in 1983. He is pursuing his PhD degree in composition at Brandeis University, where he has studied composition, with Prof. Martin Boykan, Prof. Eric Chasalow and Prof.  David Rakowski, as well as violin with Prof. Daniel Stepner. He has received his Bachelor of music in composition from the Jerusalem Academy of Music and where he studied composition with Prof. Mark Kopytman and took private violin lessons with Mr. Albert Yaffe. This past summer he also worked with renowned Italian composer Azio Corghi at the Accademia Chigiana is Siena.
Yohanan Chendler’s works have been performed in Israel, Europe and the US. He has received several prizes, among them the Michele Pittalluga composition competition and scholarships of the America-Israeli Cultural Foundation for both composition and violin performance. His works have been published by Berben Musical Editions and by Lucian Badian Edition.