Yotam Haber

Yotam Haber is a composer based in New York City. He is a 2005 Guggenheim fellow and a 2007 Rome Prize winner in Music Composition.

Haber was born in the Netherlands and grew up in Israel, Nigeria, and Milwaukee. He studied music composition at Indiana University with Eugene O'Brien and Claude Baker and then earned his doctorate at Cornell with Steven Stucky and Roberto Sierra.

Haber has written music for leading new music ensembles and performers including Alarm Will Sound, Gabriel Kahane, Flux Quartet, and The Knights (orchestra). He has been a fellow at the Aspen Music Festival and Tanglewood Music Festival, and artist colonies including MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, Aaron Copland House, and Bogliasco Center.

Upcoming major projects include a commission for a concert length work, A More Convenient Season, for the Alabama Symphony Orchestra with chorus and soloists commemorating the 50th anniversary of an explosion that killed four in a Baptist church in Birmingham on September 15, 1963.

In 2010, Haber was appointed the Artistic Director of the MATA Festival. His work at the MATA festival was lauded by the New York Times as “a testament to MATA’s enduring mission and to the high standards maintained by its current directors, David T. Little and Yotam Haber.”

Haber's music has been well received, called "haunting" by New Yorker critic Alex Ross and the New York Times.