Yehoshua Lakner, biography

Biographical Notes

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*24.4.1924	Bratislava CSR.
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.
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
1959/69	studied at the NWDR studio for electronic music, Cologne, Germany (with Mauricio Kagel, Gottfried Michael Koenig and Karlheinz Stockhausen).
1963	settled in Zurich, Schwitzerland
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;
1974-1987	teacher at the Conservatory and Academy of Music in Zurich
October 1987	Retired from the Conservatory
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:

1989	Musikpodium der Stadt Zurich
1990	Swiss Television DRS
1990	Berne Universtity
1991	ISCM-WORLD-MUSIK-DAYs 1991, Zurich
1991	Technorama Winterthur
1991	University College, London
1992	Exhibition, Galerie 'Amtshimmel' in Baden
1993	The Jerusalem Rubin Academy of Music and Dance
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)
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. .

1999	CCS Centro Culturale Svizzero MILANO: Segante (versione milanese)
1999	"Segante" project, Musikpodium der Stadt Zürich, Visdome ETH (cupola hall in the main building of the ETH)
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
2001	Several recitals by the two pianists on the CD.
2002	EPFL - 1st stage - 20.07.02 film premiered in Lausanne
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.
2003	Review in nmz (Neue Musik Zeitung) 4-03
05.12.03	Yehoshua Lakner died in Zurich.
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