Composer and trumpeter, Oren Boneh has upcoming performances from Ensemble Reconsil, Ensemble Proton Bern, Ensemble Divertimento and Alarm Will Sound and previous performances by ensembles such as Vertixe Sonora, Ensemble Meitar, Ensemble Regards, Ensemble Pentaèdre, the Playground, Music From Copland House Ensemble, Architek Percussion, the Eco Ensemble, the Empyrean Ensemble and the Nebula Ensemble, among others. Oren has been selected in numerous competitions such as the 2017 Salvatore Martirano Memorial Composition Award Competition (First Prize - Winter Walks that Gravel my Voice ), Concorso Internazionale Franco Donatoni (Lug ), Protonwerk No. 8 and the ASCAP Morton Gould Awards, and his works have been selected in calls for scores by Random Access Music and Ensemble Reconsil, among others. Oren’s pieces have been additionally performed and presented in festivals such as Festival Mixtur (Spain), Spaziomusica Festival (Italy), Tzlil Meudcan (Israel), Soundstreams Emerging Composer Workshop, Contemporary Encounters (Israel), CULTIVATE at the Copland House, Toronto International Electroacoustic Symposium (TIES), ExperimentalStudio Matrix 2015, New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival, Montreal Contemporary Music Lab, Sonorities Festival of Contemporary Music (Belfast, UK), Kansas City Electronic Music Alliance, Electroacoustic Barn Dance, International Summer Academy of Music (Germany), PULSAR Festival (Copenhagen), California Summer Music Festival, Society of Composers Inc. (SCI) National Conference, the Playground Ensemble's Colorado Composer’s Concerts, and various others.
Oren has held artist residencies at the Millay Colony for the Arts, the Visby International Centre for Composers (Gotland, Sweden) and the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts (Nebraska City, Nebraska).
In addition to his work in composition, Oren is active as a trumpeter. He has performed with various ensembles and has written two pieces, Enso (2011) and Eclipse (2013), for trumpet and electronics, which are available from qPress. He is quite interested in discovering new sonic and technical possibilities using the trumpet. Trumpet is how he began in music and he hopes to connect it with composition for the duration of his musical career.
Oren is currently pursuing a PhD in composition at the University of California, Berkeley where he works with Franck Bedrossian, Edmund Campion, Ken Ueno and Cindy Cox. Supported by a Fulbright fellowship during the 2015-2016 year, Oren worked in Dresden, Germany studying composition and working at the Dresden Music Cognition Lab. Oren has previously studied at McGill University with Brian Cherney and Philippe Leroux, the Royal Danish Academy of Music with Hans Abrahamsen and Juliana Hodkinson, and the University of Denver with Chris Malloy and William Hill.
Oren has held artist residencies at the Millay Colony for the Arts, the Visby International Centre for Composers (Gotland, Sweden) and the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts (Nebraska City, Nebraska).
In addition to his work in composition, Oren is active as a trumpeter. He has performed with various ensembles and has written two pieces, Enso (2011) and Eclipse (2013), for trumpet and electronics, which are available from qPress. He is quite interested in discovering new sonic and technical possibilities using the trumpet. Trumpet is how he began in music and he hopes to connect it with composition for the duration of his musical career.
Oren is currently pursuing a PhD in composition at the University of California, Berkeley where he works with Franck Bedrossian, Edmund Campion, Ken Ueno and Cindy Cox. Supported by a Fulbright fellowship during the 2015-2016 year, Oren worked in Dresden, Germany studying composition and working at the Dresden Music Cognition Lab. Oren has previously studied at McGill University with Brian Cherney and Philippe Leroux, the Royal Danish Academy of Music with Hans Abrahamsen and Juliana Hodkinson, and the University of Denver with Chris Malloy and William Hill.
