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Stephen Horenstein was born in 1948, in Boston, MA, and emigrated to Israel in 1980. After graduating from Trinity College/Hartt School of Music (BA), formal flute studies with Marcel Moyse, and the University of Wisconsin (MA in Composition), Horenstein was appointed to the faculty of Bennington College (Black Music Department, Dance, 1973-1980). His first formative work as a creative player was with musical innovator Bill Dixon, with whom he recorded and performed extensively for over a decade (Festival D’Autumne, Verona Festival; Vision Festival, recordings on Black Saint-Soul Note, etc.).
Upon arriving in Israel, Horenstein taught at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance (1981-86), Tel Aviv University (1982-1986), after which he founded the Jerusalem Institute of Contemporary Music (1987-present).
He has collaborated with many well-known artists, including Isamu Noguchi, Steve Paxton, Israeli Hadani, Rena Schoenfeld, Kibbutz Dance Company, Vertigo, Esti Kenan-Ofri, and virtuoso percussionist, Jeffery Kowalsky. He has also been guest artist and lecturer at Brandeis University; Middlebury Colege; SUNY, Purchase; and Stanford University. Horenstein received his PhD from Hebrew University, and published a work on perception of time in music.
Stephen Horenstein’s works for ensemble, small orchestra, soloist and electronics have been performed in festivals worldwide, including: NY International Festival, Other Worlds, Milan; Vienna Harp Festival; Media Mix, University of York; ICMF, Hong Kong; Israel Festival; Helsinki Festival; Red Sea Festival, and others. His recordings include: Collages (Black Saint Soul Note) and Between the Silences (JICM Recordings).Recent experimental collaborations are featured on Kadima Collective Records, with J.C. Jones. His latest projects include a forthcoming 60th birthday retrospective. Horenstein’s work uses documentary sources, many of them from Jewish sound archives, as well a new vision of the 21st century orchestra.
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