Yuval Ron has composed
for film, television, dance, and theatre, both in the U.S. and in Israel.
His compositions have been featured at the White House, NYC’s The Kitchen,
the Boston Film Festival, Hollywood
Film Festival, Monte Carlo Festival, World Trade Center, Bob Fosse Dance
Awards, NEC New Music Festival, The Shubert Theater, The Ford Amphitheater,
and the Japan America Theater.
His film scores include Someone To Die For,
Susie
Q, The Spiral Staircase, and Urban Jungle. His work for
TV has been shown on several major networks and includes Oliver Twist,
Sweet
Valley High, Politics and the Games, and To Life — America
Salutes Israel’s 50th. His work for Israeli TV include two of Yaron
London’s news programs, Mismach and Hasheela Habaah, the
film Love of the 1st Degree, and the documentary series Sovlanut
for the Israeli educational TV network.
Dance scores include commissions from choreographers
Daniel Ezralow (American Repertory Ballet), Ashley Roland (ISO), Dawn Kramer
(Dance Collective), and Paula Josa-Jones, as well as an ongoing collaboration
with Butoh master Oguri and Renzoku Dance Company. Yuval has also worked
with several Israeli choreographers.
In 1998, he released his first solo recording,
In
Between the Heartbeat, and in 1999, produced the album One Truth with
Sufi master musician Omar Faruk Tekbilek. He also was musical supervisor
and vocal director for the double CD of the musical MASADA, with
the Moscow Symphony and Davis Gaines.
Ron received two grants from the National Endowment
for the Arts, as well as grants from The Rockefeller Foundation, National
Dance Project, American Composers Forum, and The California Council for
Humanities.
His film and TV scores have received various
festival awards including the Chicago International Festival's Gold Medal,
Telluride Festival winner, CINE Golden Eagle, Moon Dance Film Festival
Humanity award, and more. In Israel, his work received the G’vanim dance
festival special award.
Ron is the musical director and oud player
of the Yuval Ron Ensemble, dedicated to presenting Middle Eastern music
of the three primary religions of the Middle East. In addition, he hosts
the world music concert series The International Underground at
the UCLA Hammer Museum. |