Yitzhak Yedid, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Age, Net Worth, Biography

Yitzhak Yedid (Hebrew: ???? ?????, born 29 September 1971) is an Israeli-Australian composer and pianist. Yitzhak Yedid has been announced as the winner of the 2020 Azrieli Foundation Prize for Jewish Music.
His winning composition, Kiddushim Ve’ Killulim (Blessings and Curses)[1], was unanimously declared the best new major work of Jewish music by the judges of the Canadian prize.
Yedid received a total prize package valued at over $200,000 CAD, which includes a cash award of $50,000 CAD; a world premiere performance of his work by Le Nouvel Ensemble Moderne; two subsequent international performances; and a recording released on the Analekta label.[2] In 2018 Yedid has won the Sidney Myer Creative Fellowship worth $160,000 over a two-year period.
The Sidney Myer Creative Fellowships recognise outstanding talent and exceptional courage.
Yedid awarded the top two prizes in Israel for composers and performers: the Prime Minister’s Prize for Composers (2007) and the Landau Prize for Performing Arts (2009).
In 2008 he was awarded the first composition prize for solo work for harp at the 17th International Harp contest which led to numerous performances of the piece worldwide and to two commercial recordings.
Yedid has also been awarded a composer-in- residence position at the Judith Wright Centre (Brisbane, 2010) and at the Western Australian Academy of Performing arts (2008).
His album Arabic violin Bass Piano Trio was nominated for the 2012 Australian Jazz Bell Awards.[3]

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