DEBORAH NETANEL, DMA, composer, arranger and accomplished cellist, holds degrees from the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University, Rubin Academy of Music (Jerusalem), Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. She is the recipient of many awards and prizes, including the Edith and Irene Ashworth Prize and an award for artistic excellence from the Israeli government. DR NETANEL has studied cello with Yehuda Hanani, Shmuel Magen and Aldo Parisot, chamber music with members of the Tokyo String Quartet, Peter Frankl, Nobuko Imai and Ralph Kirshbaum and composition with some of the foremost composers of our time including Darrell Handel, Joel Hoffman, Augusta Reed Thomas, George Crumb, George Rochberg, Tzvi Avni, Yehudi Wyner, Samuel Adler and Steve Reich.

A member of ASCAP, the American Music Center, the College Music Society and the Pacific Contemporary Music Center, DR NETANEL’s compositions include Three Songs of Modern Life for voice and piano, Beginnings for voice and harp, Amidst the Pines for clarinet and piano, Unspoken Longing for violin and cello and Footsteps, a chamber work for violin, clarinet, marimba and reciter that uses original text. NETANEL’s works have been performed throughout the United States and internationally, including a recent performance in London at Wigmore Hall (January, 2002). In March 2000, Shma Koleinu for violin, cello and reciters was featured in a concert in London; in June 2000, NETANEL’s piano trio Sounds of an Ancient City was featured at MUSIC 2000, a festival of new music in Ohio and her clarinet/piano duos have been chosen for recording by Jerusalem National Radio. In July, 2002, Dr. Netanel was a guest composer at the Oregon Bach Festival Composers’ Symposium where her chamber music was featured in performances by Third Angle, a Portland based New Music ensemble. Deborah Netanel was also the featured composer of the ARTBEAT of ISRAEL Festival Concert held in Cincinnati in November, 2002.

Recent commisions include Wings of a Dove for violin, saxophone and piano, Dreams, op 36, commissioned and premiered by internationally acclaimed violinist Miriam Kramer at Alice Tully Hall in Lincoln Center in December, 2000, and Wildpeace, a work for mezzo soprano, piano and cello, commissioned and premiered by Ball State University vocal artist Kathleen Maurer in Cincinnati and in Troy, Ohio. A large scale work, Kaddish, based on the Hebrew prayer of that title, was premiered in May 2001 at a concert sponsored by the Jewish War Veterans of the USA, post 438. DR NETANEL’s music has been featured by local ABC television affiliates in connection with a recent documentary on the life of Anna Frank. In February, 2004, Netanel’s String Quartet no 2, “Arava” was featured at a concert by the Wright State String Quartet in Dayton, Ohio.

In addition to her activities as a composer, DEBORAH NETANEL is an active performer, chamber musician and teacher and has performed in numerous music festivals in the United States, France, Israel, United Kingdom and Switzerland, including Tanglewood, Hampden-Sydney Chamber Music Festival, Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, Kfar Blum Festival (Israel), Academie National de Musique de Vannes (France), Academie d'Ete Moulin d'Ande (France), Hengrave Hall-Bury St. Edmunds (UK), Festival International de Musique (Switzerland), the Orford Music Center (Montreal) and Mozart Festival, Prague. Dr. Netanel’s performances with the ORONOQUE TRIO, an ensemble that specializes in contemporary music include the Composer’s Concordance Series in New York City. Recently a guest performer in a concert honoring American War Veterans of the USA, post 438 where she played in the presence of the Governor of the State of Ohio and other dignitaries, she appears frequently with Tutti Solisti Chamber Players in concerts throughout the midwest, in cities such as Dayton, Indianapolis, Columbus and Cincinnati. In addition to her appearances on the concert stage, Deborah Netanel has performed a series of concerts on the cruise ship QE2. Dr Netanel was formerly on the faculties of Wright State University and the University of Cincinnati and has recorded for Prague Radio and Vienna Modern Masters. She has been invited to present lecture/performances at the Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities in 2005 and 2006 and her music has been featured in concerts of the College Music Society's Regional and National Conferences.
In April, 2008 she will present a paper, "The Legacy of Erwin Schulhoff" at an international conference, "The Impact of Nazism on 20th Century Music" at the University of London, Institute of Musical Research.
Dr. Netanel is currently on the faculty of Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.


The Critics have said….

“Netanel’s work was alternately plaintive, lyrical and perky…” James R. Oestreich, New York Times

“Expressionist and haunting, filled with passages of serene beauty, and other more dynamic segments gave the work a kind of vibrant tension” Jeffrey Kurz, Record Journal

“Dreams, by Deborah Netanel, was a persuasive work with a bed of ethereal harmonies from the piano supporting the floating lines of the violin, awash with Romantic inclinations.” David Alker, Musical Opinion, London

“String Quartet no 2, ‘Arava’ was so wonderful, so colorful, so atmospheric!! Bravo, again!!” Jackson Leung, pianist and conductor