Yati Durant
Composer, Sound Artist and Director of International Media Music and Sound Arts Network In Education ( IMMSANE )
Yati Durant is an award-winning U.S. born composer of concert and film music, Professor, sound artist, trumpeter and conductor. He is a visiting Professor of Film Music Conducting at the Rovigo Conservatory of Music “Francesco Venezze”. He is the former Programme Director of MSc Composition for Screen at the University of Edinburgh (2010 – 2019). Since 2019, Yati is the Director of the International Media Music and Sound Arts Network in Education (IMMSANE) that held the 1 st IMMSANE Zurich 2020 Congress at the Zurich University of the Arts in October 2020. His compositions and film scores have received many prizes from International festivals, including a Panorama Prize at the 2008 Berlin International Film Festival for Erika Rabau – Der Puck von Berlin and a BAFA National Commerce Film Award nomination for the WDR/ARD documentary Ein Klavier geht um die Welt. He is a finalist of the 2009 Concorso Giovani Musicisti Europei in Aosta, Italy with his score to C. Chaplin’s The Vagabond. Recent highlights include his conducting of the Staatsorchester Braunschweig to his 2005 orchestral and electronics score for Battleship Potemkin (1925) at the opening of the Braunschweig International Film Festival and at the Murnau Film and Musikfest, Bielefeld in 2018, and the inclusion of his scores for restored films from the Jean Desmet Dream Factory collection at EYE Amsterdam in 2015. In the 1990’s, Yati lived in New York City, where he worked in TV and film, writing for HBO, Walt Disney Productions, Fox, US Army, Jif, Waterman Pens and many others. In Europe, Yati has worked for many State broadcasters, including the ARD and WDR, and many of his compositions and film scores have been published on CD and DVD. He is a frequent contributor and jury member to the most important film music competitions and festivals in Europe, including Soundtrack Cologne, Festival International du Film d’Aubagne and FMF Krakow. He also has an international profile as a performer of jazz trumpet and electroacoustic music, and he has performed in Italy, Germany, Poland, Czech Republic, India, France, Brazil and in the United Kingdom.
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