AMIT POZNANSKY
Composer & Orchestrator
Music Placement
February 2010
Amit's piece, Radiant Earth, was used in a promo for Chris Rock's TV-show: Everybody Hates Chris. It will air this season in the US, and internationally. You can listen to the piece here.
Life Of The Dead - Live, in Berkeley, CA
January 23, 2010
Life of the Dead -Theme, by Amit Poznansky, was performed live at Berkeley Piano Club, CA, by flutists Carol Alban and Nancy Tyler, cellist Suellen Primost, and pianist Dylan Bard. In the Bach and Beyond Benefit Concert for IDA's Haiti Disaster Relief Fund. You can listen to the recording here.
Orchestrations / Musical Production
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.
"Henry Le Cooking" (An Animation Short)
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]
Cinematic Orchestra One
June 2009
Amit Poznansky has been working for over a year for the Los Angeles based company Integration Music Inc. He composed and produced 10 pieces which are now included in the new release: Cinematic Orchestra One. All pieces are available for licensing and can be used in film / television / radio productions. Please note that some of the tracks on this web-site's m
usic page are also included in Integration's compilation. For further information please contact Thomas Erba at info@integrationmusic.com.
Premiere of "Life of the Dead" Song Cycle
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
Article on Ynet
June 16, 2009
Ynet,
Music for Film & TV CD
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.
New Song
January 2009
Amit has recently composed and recorded Hanoch Levin's song, At My Death, A Child's Death [
]. This track has just been added as a "bonus track" to his album, Life of the Dead [
], and is currently available for download at the iMusic web-page . (The page is currently in Hebrew only. To listen to this song please click here).
Shakespeare's Sonnet 130
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.
"Fiddler on the Roof"
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!
Waltz, for Flute & Piano
October 2007
The piece Waltz for Flute & Piano has just been published by the Edition Svitzer Company, based in Copenhagen,
Feature Interview in Virtual Instruments Magazine
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.
"Barks"
The premiere of the documentary Barks (in Hebrew: 'Nevikhot') by Ram Loevy took place at the Tel-Aviv Cinematheque. Amit was responsible for the original music score. The film was also broadcast on the Israeli Channel 8 ("HOT!" Cable TV). You can find Drifting Away – one of the pieces which were composed for this film - on the music page (track no. 7), featuring violinist Adrian Justus."Broadway Big Band" Demos
January 2007
Amit has been a part of the beta-testing team of Broadway Big BandTM – a high-end virtual instrument by 
, and has composed the first official public demos of the product. You can find these demos on the music page on the flash player (Diabolic Call, On the Move, Curtain Up! and Moon Owl).
"Life of the Dead" in Concert
November 2006
The suite Life of the Dead was performed by the San Francisco Bay Area Chamber Symphony in a benefit concert for IDA-USA (In Defense of Animals), as part of the "Bach & Beyond" festival, which took place in
