Tamar Muskal
Tamar Muskal studied composition and viola at the Jerusalem Academy for Dance and Music (Israel), Yale University, and CUNY. She is mentioned in Anthony Tommasini’s 10 Best Classical Music Events of 2014. Recent and future commissions include two percussion concertos for Steve Schick along with interactive art by Daniel Rozin for the La Jolla Music Festival and the ACO, a flute concerto, strings and percussion for Abigail Dolan and the Symphonova, a piece for a rapper, rhythm vocalist, chamber ensemble and girls youth chorus for Close Encounter With Music and a piece for clarinet, string quartet and drum set for Jo-Ann Sternberg. Tamar has received grants and awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, Academy of Arts and Letters, Meet the Composer, American Composers Forum, and ASCAP, among others.