Inspiring and empowering at-risk youth and under-served communities through music, dance, & storytelling
Enjoy a studio visit with Composer Yuval Ron including lunch in LA. While visiting with him you will have the opportunity to Compose or Record in his studio.
The winner will also receive a signed copy of his award-winning book Divine Attunement: Music as a Path to Wisdom.
Yuval Ron is an internationally renowned World Music artist, composer, educator, peace activist and record producer. Yuval composed the songs and score for the Oscar winning film West Bank Story, was the featured artist in the Gala Concert for the Dalai Lama’s initiative Seeds of Compassion in the Seattle Opera Hall, and has collaborated with the Sufi leader Pir Zia Inayat Khan since 2006. His TV and films scores includes the PBS/Nova special, Breaking the Maya Code, Proteus, Oliver Twist, The Spiral Staircase, Golda’s Balcony and Road to Victory and he has collaborated with numerous film directors including, Jeremy Kagan, Ari Sandel, David Lebrun. His commissions from international choreographers include those for Daniel Ezralow (American Repertory Ballet), Ashley Roland (ISO dance company), Oguri (Renzoku Dance Company) and Zen priest and visual artist Hirokazu Kosaka. His original scores for theater productions include Shakespeare’s The Tempest, Yeats’ Amer’s Jealousy and Becket’s Casscando.
Yuval is known for continuously researching various ethnic musical traditions and spiritual paths worldwide. His awards include the Los Angeles Treasures Award and prestigious grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, American Composers Forum, California Council for the Humanities and the Rockefeller Foundation. Under his leadership The Yuval Ron Ensemble, has been actively creating musical bridges between people of the Jewish, Muslim and Christian faiths and has been featured on CNN, National Geographic, and in international press and media. Yuval Ron has produced field recordings in the Sinai Desert with the Bedouins, archival preservation recordings of the sacred Yemenite, Moroccan and Andalusian Jewish traditions, and the album of master musician Omar Faruk Tekbilek titled, One Truth – A Window into the Divine Passion and Poetry of Sufism. Yuval Ron has also collaborated with neuroscientists Mark Waldman, Andrew Newburg and others to explore the connection between sound and the brain and has received commissions from Metta Mindfulness Music to create music for medical and healing use in clinics and treatments centers.
Yuval’s book Divine Attunement: Music as a path to Wisdom, won the Gold Medal Award for Best Spirituality Book at the Indie Book Awards. Yuval is a graduate of Berklee College of Music, graduate Cum-Laude.
Inspiring and empowering at-risk youth and under-served communities through music, dance, & storytelling