title: Tzvi Avni
text: Tzvi Jacob Avni (first name sometimes spelled Zvi; ; born Hermann Jakob Steinke,  September 2, 1927; Saarbrücken) is an Israeli composer.
  
  Biography
  Tzvi Avni was born in Saarbrücken, Germany, and emigrated to Mandate Palestine as a child. He studied with Paul Ben-Haim.
  
  On the recommendation of Edgard Varèse, he became involved with the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center in the 1960s. Later he founded an electronic studio at the Jerusalem Academy of Music, following the guidelines of his mentor in New York, Vladimir Ussachevsky.
  
  Awards
  In 2001, Avni was awarded the Israel Prize, for music.
  On September 11, 2012, Avni was made an honorary citizen of Saarbrücken.
  
  Notes
  
  References
  Gluck, Bob. “Go Find Your Own Tricks!: Interview with Israeli Composer Tzvi Avni.” eContact! 14.4 — TES 2011: Toronto Electroacoustic Symposium / Symposium électroacoustique de Toronto (March 2013). Montréal: CEC.
   Gluck, Robert J. “The Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center: Educating international composers.” Computer Music Journal 31/2 (Summer 2007), pp. 20–38.
  
  External links 
   Official webpage
   Tzvi Avni biography on The Israel Music Institute (IMI) website
  
  See also
  List of Israel Prize recipients
  
  1927 births
  Living people
  Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to Mandatory Palestine
  20th-century classical composers
  21st-century classical composers
  20th-century Israeli composers
  21st-century Israeli composers
  Israeli male composers
  Israel Prize in music recipients
  People from Saarbrücken