Jacob Avshalomov is a composer, conductor, and music educator whose life in music spans eighty years and three continents. Avshalomov characterizes his approach to composing for chorus as follows:
What many composers have put into large-scale opera, I have put into large-scale choral works. In these lies the possibility to combine language and feelings in their purest forms without distractions of scenety, lighting, and costuming for dramatic production. I am concerned that messages be projected straightforwardly from the mouths of humans … combining literature, language, and feelings with music.
He often collaborates with his wife Doris, an established poet. He classifies himself as a "conservative contemporary" composer.
Avshalomov is a master composer who takes great care in text choice and settings. He is sensitive to the declamation and meaning of the texts. Through madrigal-style writing in the melodic and harmonic writing, along with appropriate choice of contrapuntal and harmonic textures, Avshalomov reveals himself to be a master composer, thoroughly grounded in compositional technique that serves poet and singer.
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