AMIT POZNANSKY

NEWS

October 2011

Amit has just completed the score for the feature film Dr. Pomerantz, by leading Israeli director Assi Dayan. The premiere took place at the Haifa International Film Festival.

August 2011

Amit has just completed the score for Moving Pictures, a new animated short by Nadav Nachmani and Dror Shpatz. The film premiered at the Haifa International Film Festival, and is online on YouTube.

June 2011

A new performance of Amit's Waltz for Flute and Piano, played by flutist Henrik Svitzer, and pianist Tore Dingstad took place at Toneheim Folkehøgskole (Norway) June, 2011.

May 2011

Amit Poznansky has written the score for Joseph Cedar's newest feature film, FOOTNOTE (Hearat Shulayim).  The music was performed by the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Doron Salomon.  The premiere took place at the Cannes Festival (May 14), and the film was honored with the Best Screenplay Award.  It will be released in Israel on June 2nd, 2011.  A Soundtrack album release will follow...

A review, and an interview on Amit's work were published on Cinezik: A french web-magazine on film music. For further reading, please follow the links:
Cinezik Review
Cinezik Interview - in French
Cinezik Interview - in English

Septemper  2010

The short animated film The Good Knight Story, created by Shoham Blau, Or Kantor, and Amos Naim, has been released on the Internet, and you can now watch it on this website.  Amit composed the music score. Please follow this link.

July  2010

The Dance Show, One Thousand & One Nights, Performed by Yoram Karmi's dance group, Fresco, has just premiered at the Mediatheque Theater.  Amit composed and edited the music soundtrack.  For tickets, please visit the theater's website here.

March  2010

Amit Poznansky was honored with the composer-award for the music he's written for the play Zaza's Friends (Directed by Shirili Deshe).  The ceremony took place at the Haifa Children's Theater Festival 2010.  More details on the winners can be found here.

September - December  2009

Amit completed orchestrations and musical production for 3 major theater projects: Yentl (Music by Yossi Ben-Nun),  a production of the Cameri Theater, The Count of Monte Cristo (Music by Dori Parnes), Beer Sheva Theater, and Peter Pan (Music by Tal Blecharovitz), Haifa & Orna Porat Theaters. The first two productions are honoured with numerous nominations for the upcoming Theater Award Ceremony, including the best-music-score category. 

                

August  2009

Henry Le Cooking, A new CG animated short film by Arik Ben-Ari, Yaniv BenDor, Avichai Yeyni, and Rotem Aharon has just been released.  Amit Poznansky composed and produced the music score.  You are welcome to watch the movie at the following link:   [Watch HLC]

June 21, 2009

The premiere of Amit's song-cycle, Life of the Dead, based on poems by Hanoch Levin, performed by the Copenhagen Girls' Choir (Sankt Annæ Pigekor), and conducted by Claus Vestergaard Jensen, has just taken place at the Esajas Church in Copenhagen, Denmark. A video of the 3rd movement, can be viewed here.  More details can be found at Edition Svitzer's website and on Amit's MySpace blog.

June 16,  2009

Ynet, Israel's most popular newspaper, has published an article on the world premiere of the "Life of the Dead" song cycle, as performed by the Copenhagen Girls' Choir (June 19th, 2009). Read article...(In Hebrew).

May  2009

Amit's new compilation CD, Music for Film & TV, has just been released!   To order a copy, please contact him directly at amit@poznansky.com. CD's will be available for online purchase (CD Baby, Amazon) soon.  Please stay tuned.

November 2008

Amit's composition of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 130, is a part of a 5-sonnet cycle, all performed by the acclaimed Tenor Guy Mannheim. The cycle will be published by Edition Svitzer during 2009.  To read about Mr. Mannheim and listen to the sonnet please click here.

May 2008

The premiere of the new production of the musical Fiddler On The Roof  has just taken place at Tel-Aviv's Cameri Theater.  Amit was responsible for the orchestrations' adaptation - combining both samplers and live players.   The show has recently received great reviews in Israel's major newspapers, and is currently a smash hit in Tel-Aviv.  You can now watch a selection of songs at the following YouTube Video.  Enjoy!

October  2007

The piece Waltz for Flute & Piano has just been published by the Edition Svitzer Company, based in Copenhagen, Denmark, and it is now available for online purchase on their website.  Additionally, it was performed by the great Duo Svitava, in concert at the Royal Danish Academy Of Music, and you can find a video of that performance on the Music Page, as well as at the following link on YouTube.

June  2007  

 

Virtual Instruments Magazine published its feature interview with Amit Poznansky in the June/July issue. In it Amit discusses his approach to composing and sequencing and focuses on his Broadway Big BandTM pieces, as well as his other orchestral works. Check it out at www.virtualinstrumentsmag.com.