Yotam Haber

Yotam Haber is a composer based in New Orleans. He is a 2005 Guggenheim fellow and a 2007 Rome Prize winner in Music Composition.

Yotam Haber was born October 27, 1976 in the Netherlands and grew up in Israel, Nigeria, and Milwaukee. He studied music composition at Indiana University with Eugene O'Brien and Claude Baker and then earned his doctorate at Cornell with Steven Stucky and Roberto Sierra. In 2013 Haber married visual artist Anna Schuleit.

Haber has written music for leading new music ensembles and performers including Alarm Will Sound,Gabriel Kahane,Flux Quartet, and The Knights (orchestra). He has been a fellow at the Aspen Music Festival and Tanglewood Music Festival, and artist colonies including MacDowell Colony,Yaddo,Aaron Copland House, Bogliasco Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Center, the Blue Mountain Center, and the Hermitage Artist Retreat.

Haber served as the Artistic Director of the MATA Festival from 2010 to 2014. His work at the MATA festival was lauded by the New York Times as "a testament to MATA’s enduring mission and to the high standards maintained by its current directors, David T. Little and Yotam Haber." During his final festival The New York Times further remarked "If there is one thing that sets the MATA Festival apart from many of the other contemporary-classical bounties New York regularly produces, it might be a robust international representation, which seems to have grown sharply since Yotam Haber — a Dutch-born global citizen and the festival’s artistic director from 2009 until this year — has been at the helm."

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