Matan Porat is a young Israeli composer/pianist. He writes really modern music. One of his pieces is based on a tune by Antonio Carlos Jobim (he sent me the notes of this piece and I find it very difficult to play).
I saw him some time ago at the Jerusalem Theater. He was great. He played some Beethoven, Mendelssohn, and Barber, but what I liked best was his own suite called “For the Piano.” It was very avant-garde. Half the time he was plucking the strings, and in the Toccata he inserted a booklet between the strings of the piano and played only within the range of the booklet. When I first heard that piece on the Internet I thought it was a piece for piano and snare drum. I thought it was awesome.
Matan Porat is a young Israeli composer/pianist. He writes really modern music. One of his pieces is based on a tune by Antonio Carlos Jobim (he sent me the notes of this piece and I find it very difficult to play).
Here are his variations on Jobim’s “One Note Samba.”
