Eitan Steinberg is one of Israel’s most prominent and active concert music composers. His works are frequently performed in Israel, Europe and the USA, and have won him, among other awards, the ACUM Prize for Lifetime Achievement (2014), Israel Prime Minister Composers Award (2007, 2018) and Landau Prize for the Arts (2010). He composes chamber operas and music-theater works, orchestral and chamber works, choral and solo works, and alongside them, as an ongoing life project, numerous arrangements of folk songs from Israel's ethnic communities. Performers of his music include renowned orchestras, ensembles and soloists. His collaboration with his wife, vocalist Etty BenZaken, has yielded over thirty works he has composed for her voice, treating voice, text and languages in a unique personal way. Together they have founded Modalius Ensemble, in which Steinberg was active as conductor, composer and arranger. Eitan Steinberg is also known as a conductor of contemporary music and is a full professor (emeritus) in the Department of Music at the University of Haifa. His own musical education includes composition studies at the Jerusalem Academy of Music (BA, MA), at the Chigiana Academy in Italy (Diploma), and at UC Berkeley, USA (Ph.D.).
