The Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies is pleased to announce that Russian-Israeli composer Matti Kovler will serve as its first composer-in-residence this spring. During the residency, Dr. Kovler will work on a new opera, collaborate with students, and direct two performances on campus: an evening of Israeli song and a preview of his musical Ami and Tami, “a Jewish take on the fairytale ‘Hansel and Gretel.’”
An acclaimed composer of operatic and orchestral works, Dr. Kovler has received commissions from Carnegie Hall, Tanglewood, and the Israel Philharmonic. Born in Russia, he was educated in Israel and the US, earning a doctorate in music composition at the New England Conservatory in 2014. He comes to BU by way of Northeastern University’s Hillel House, where he was recently an artist-in-residence. As part of the Museum of Fine Arts’ “Festival of Lights,” a preview of his latest opera, The Seekers of Light, drew 2,500 people to the MFA this past December.