Luna Alcalay
Luna Alcalay was a Croatian-born Austrian pianist, music educator and composer.Biography
Alcalay was born in Zagreb, Croatia to a Jewish family. She studied piano under :sv:Bruno Seidlhofer|Bruno Seidlhofer and composition under Alfred Uhl at the Vienna Academy of Music and received a scholarship in 1958 to continue her studies in Rome. After completing her studies, she returned to Vienna, where she became a professor of piano at the Academy of Music and Performing Arts.- Darmstadt 1963 and 1964
- Gaudeamus competition 1967
- Berlin 1972
- International ISCM competition Italy 1973
- ORF Steiermark 1973
- "Preis der Stadt Wien" 1992
Works
Selected works include:
- Apostroph
- Apostrophen
- Gyroskop for viola solo
- un sogno à tre for flute, viola and harp
- relatif à la sonorité
- Touches
- conversations à trois
- L'intérieur des pensées
- Applications
- Pas de deux
- Trio
- Syntax
- En circuit · Der alte Friedhof in Prag
- Bagatellen
- Transparenzen
- Sentenzen
- Quasi una Fantasia
- Touches
- Der übergangene Mensch
- A Game for Two
- Due sentenze
- 3 poems
- En passant
Alcalay's work has been recorded and issued on CD, including:
