Composer and trumpeter, Oren Boneh has upcoming performances from Ensemble Reconsil, Vertixe Sonora, Music from Copland House Ensemble, and the Illinois Modern Ensemble and previous performances by ensembles such as Ensemble Divertimento, Ensemble Meitar, Ensemble Regards, Ensemble Pentaèdre, the Playground, Ensemble Transmission, Architek Percussion, the Eco Ensemble and the Nebula Ensemble, among others. Oren's piece Winter Walks that Gravel my Voice was chosen for First Prize in the 2017 Salvatore Martirano Memorial Composition Award Competition and his piece Behind the Forget-Me-Nots was chosen as the winner of the Random Access Music Call for Scores, for which it was performed by William Lang. Oren’s pieces have been additionally performed in festivals such as Festival Mixtur (Spain), Spaziomusica Festival (Italy), Soundstreams Emerging Composer Workshop, Toronto International Electroacoustic Symposium (TIES), ExperimentalStudio Matrix 2015, New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival, CIRMMT Symposium, 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 been Composer-In-Residence 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 including the Denver Philharmonic Orchestra, the Colorado Wind Ensemble, Ovations Players and Main Street Players, the Boulder Philharmonic, the Arapahoe Philharmonic and many more. He 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. Recently, experiments in trumpet improvisation with live electronics have become an interest through collaborations with Denver composers Ryan Fiegl and Jeff Ashear. 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 a PhD fellow 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, the Royal Danish Academy of Music and the University of Denver. His primary instructors have included Chris Malloy, William Hill, Hans Abrahamsen and Brian Cherney and he has participated in courses and masterclasses of composers such as Philippe Leroux, Mark Andre, Rebecca Saunders, Pierluigi Billone, Hector Parra, Ivan Fedele, Kaija Saariaho, Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf, Mauro Lanza, Peter Ablinger, Mauricio Sotelo and others.
Oren has been Composer-In-Residence 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 including the Denver Philharmonic Orchestra, the Colorado Wind Ensemble, Ovations Players and Main Street Players, the Boulder Philharmonic, the Arapahoe Philharmonic and many more. He 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. Recently, experiments in trumpet improvisation with live electronics have become an interest through collaborations with Denver composers Ryan Fiegl and Jeff Ashear. 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 a PhD fellow 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, the Royal Danish Academy of Music and the University of Denver. His primary instructors have included Chris Malloy, William Hill, Hans Abrahamsen and Brian Cherney and he has participated in courses and masterclasses of composers such as Philippe Leroux, Mark Andre, Rebecca Saunders, Pierluigi Billone, Hector Parra, Ivan Fedele, Kaija Saariaho, Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf, Mauro Lanza, Peter Ablinger, Mauricio Sotelo and others.
