Jorge Mario Liderman

Argentine-American Composer and Educator

Jorge Liderman (16 Nov 1957, Buenos Aires — 3 Feb 2008, El Cerrito, CA) was an American composer and music professor at the University of California, Berkeley. Liderman was born in Argentina and studied at the Rubin School of Music in Jerusalem. In 1988, he earned a doctorate in composition from the University of Chicago, joining the UC Berkeley faculty a year later. Jorge Mario Liderman died from an apparent suicide, after a lengthy battle with depression, at a train station in El Cerrito, California. Some of his compositions include a songs cycle for violin and guitar, commissioned for Duo46 and partially funded by the Guggenheim Fellowship in 2003. The resulting Aires De Sefarad (46 Spanish Songs For Violin And Guitar) CD was released by Albany Records. Liderman finished a follow-up "Aires de Sefarad II" cycle shortly before his untimely death.