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![YL with his parents (April 1941) in Bratislava.](Foto20k.jpg) |
*24.4.1924 |
Bratislava CSR. |
![Ödön Partos - Yehoshua Lakner's teacher.](Foto30k.jpg) |
1941 |
settled in Palestine (now Israel) |
1943 - 1948 |
studied with Oedoen Partos, Alexander U. Boskovich and Frank Pelleg. |
1943 - 1946 |
in addition to his studies - played the piano in small jazz bands. |
![Marcel Lakner (1919 - 1978) - Yehoshua Lakner's brother - on the drums.](Foto29k.jpg) |
1950 - 1963 |
taught at the Rubin Academy of Music in Tel-Aviv |
1952 |
studied in the USA with, among others, Aaron Copland at Tanglewood, Berkshire Music Center. Israeli delegate on the International Arts Program of the Institute of International Education |
![YL at the piano in Tel-Aviv.](Foto19k.jpg) |
1959/69 |
studied at the NWDR studio for electronic music, Cologne, Germany (with Mauricio Kagel, Gottfried Michael Koenig and Karlheinz Stockhausen). |
![Alexander U. Boskovich - also Yehoshua Lakner's teacher](Foto24k.jpg) |
1963 |
settled in Zurich, Schwitzerland |
![Aaron Copland studies a score by YL](Foto7k.jpg) |
1965
- 1972 |
composed music for various stage productions: Theater an der Winkelwiese: Victor by Roger Vitrac, 1965; Chairs by Eugène Ionesco, 1966; Nestroy- Quodlibet by Johann Nestroy, 1967; The Architect and the Emperor of Assyria by Fernando Arrabal, 1968; The Night of the Murderers by Jose Triana, 1969; Jona by Martin Sorescu, 1970; Schauspielhaus Zurich: Turandot or The Congress of the Whitewashers by Bertold Brecht, 1969; Theater am Neumarkt: The Garden of Lusts by Fernando Arrabal, 1971; |
![YL (circa 1950) in Tel-Aviv](Foto23k.jpg) |
1974-1987 |
teacher at the Conservatory and Academy of Music in Zurich |
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October 1987 |
Retired from the Conservatory |
![F.l.t.r.: Vardina Shlonsky, ?, ?, Copland, Frank Pelleg, YL](Foto25k.jpg) |
![In Tanglewood (Berkshire Music Center) - Aaron Coplands composition class](Foto10k.jpg) |
Since 1987 |
Lakner has devoted himself chiefly to AVTS (Audio-Visual Time-Structures), i.e. audio-visual computer compositions |
These works have been performed at venues in Switzerland and other countries, including: |
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1989 |
Musikpodium der Stadt Zurich |
1990 |
Swiss Television DRS |
![YL with Luigi Dallapiccola](Foto22k.jpg) |
![Lukas Foss congratulating YL on his Sonata for flute and piano, performed at Tanglewood:l-r: Bonnie Lake, Dan Truesdell, YL, Lukas Foss](Foto9k.jpg) |
1990 |
Berne Universtity |
1991 |
ISCM-WORLD-MUSIK-DAYs 1991, Zurich |
1991 |
Technorama
Winterthur |
1991 |
University College, London |
1992 |
Exhibition, Galerie 'Amtshimmel' in Baden |
![Yahli Lakner, Zula Lakner-Feingold and YL in Zürich](Foto27k.jpg) |
1993 |
The
Jerusalem Rubin Academy of Music and Dance |
![YL in his studio in Fislisbach](Foto1k.jpg) |
1993 |
The
Rubin Israel Academy of Music, Tel Aviv |
1993 |
'Baustein'
Strengelbach |
1993 |
'Autumn conference of cultural societies in the canton of Aargau', Zofingen |
1994 |
Fourth European Conference on Software Quality, Basel, (with exhibition) |
![Yehoshua Lakner composed music for several theatres](Foto18k.jpg) |
![Exhibition with Audio-Visual Time Structures in the gallery called 'Amtshimmel' in Baden (1992) together with Lucia Coray. Photo: Margrit Lakner and YL.](Foto15k.jpg) |
1996 |
Theater
an der Winkelwiese |
1997 |
Stadttheater
St. Gallen |
1998 |
Exhibition, März-Galerie, Ladenburg near Mannheim |
1996 - 1999: YL worked in the Segante project. The next picture shows YL with the poet, author, Professor Tuvia Rübner (TR). Click on YL's photo for the Musipodium Zurich's programme of the Segante project; click on TR's photograph for a brief biography. . |
!['Segante-GS3' - Version-Bratislava [Bratislavskà verzia] with cello-improvisation by Alfred Zimmerlin](Foto31k.jpg) |
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![Segante-GS3 Bratislava (Bratislavskà verzia]](Foto32k.jpg) |
1999 |
CCS
Centro Culturale Svizzero MILANO: Segante (versione milanese) |
![dedication by Frau Gioconda Leykauf-Segantini](Bild4k.gif) |
1999 |
"Segante" project, Musikpodium der Stadt Zürich, Visdome ETH (cupola hall in the main building of the ETH) |
![Segante-GS3 Bratislava (Bratislavskà verzia](Foto33k.jpg) |
2000 |
'Segante-GS3' - Bratislava version [Bratislavskà verzia] with cello improvisation by Alfred Zimmerlin |
2000 |
2nd Swiss Arts Festival: "Segante" project, Chiesa Biancha Maloja (Zurich version) |
2001 |
Release of CD with piano music |
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2001 |
Several recitals by the two pianists on the CD. |
![CD-Booklet](Foto36k.jpg) |
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2002 |
EPFL - 1st stage - 20.07.02 film premiered in Lausanne |
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2002 |
"Mohammed's Dream" performed in Berlin by the RIAS Kammerchor (mixed choir, tape). The first performance was conducted by Gary Bertini on the occasion of the 'Jerusalem' testimonium during the Israel Festival on July 30 1968. |
![Philharmonie Berlin](Foto34k.jpg) |
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2003 |
Review in nmz (Neue Musik Zeitung) 4-03 |
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05.12.03 |
Yehoshua Lakner died in Zurich. |
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