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2026 Azrieli Music Prize
Dalit Hadass Warshaw was named a Laureate of the 2026 Azrieli Music Prize, one of the most significant international competitions for composition, receiving the Azrieli Commission for Jewish Music. Her proposed work Letter From Across the River is inspired by the true story of her great-grandfather in war-torn Poland, who braved wintry waters to send a last letter to his sons.
BMOP Recording
Dalit Hadass Warshaw’s new orchestral portrait album, “Sirens,” is hot off the press on BMOP/sound! Released on April 25, 2025, this eagerly-anticipated disc features new recordings of Warshaw’s Sirens: A Concerto for Theremin and Orchestra, along with Camille’s Dance and Responses. All works are performed by the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, led by Artistic Director Gil Rose, with Carolina Eyck as the theremin soloist.
“…haunting, subtle, and thoroughly well-crafted music…This is easily among the best major works written for the theremin.”
“Thoroughly absorbing, they are complex, colorful, gratifyingly theatrical…Warshaw’s music is as weird and wonderful as you might hope…”
“…orchestral writing that embraces everything from the subtle and glistening to a voluptuousness that likely would tickle Richard Strauss and Maurice Ravel (one of Warshaw’s heroes).”
★★★★
“…a very engaging listen, in an otherworldly yet somehow sensuous way.”
“… a multi-threat artist [who] has created a distinguished career…Stirring… abundant vitality and craft…”
“…both eerily lyrical and harmonically knotty, chromatic and challenging without being forbidding…Recommended to all contemporary music collections.”
“Phenomenal! The greatest theremin concerto ever written”
“There are worse things than premature applause.”
“…the Elbphilharmonie Visions festival throws the spotlight exclusively on contemporary music…[with] a unique chance to engage directly with the composers…”
“An electronic interloper – the theremin — boldly joined the Albany Symphony Orchestra on Saturday night at the Palace Theater…Dalit Warshaw’s concerto ‘Sirens’ was a subtle and sophisticated showcase for the instrument.”
“…Boston Modern Orchestra Project and thereminist Carolina Eyck treated the audience to…the world premiere of Dalit Warshaw’s ‘Sirens,’ a sublimely expressive concerto…”
“Warshaw did a brilliant job blending the various orchestral instruments’ colors with the theremin’s haunting, eerie, almost swoon-like sounds.”
“A graceful and sensitive pianist, Warshaw is an intriguing orchestrator who draws a wealth of colors from an ensemble.”
“She played with unassuming grace, and the voice of the theremin mixed nicely with the other instruments.”
“…This is a very special CD…I highly recommend it…as a wonderful introduction to a new and unusual compositional voice.”
“It is a great piece and was well played…It was spectacular to watch Warshaw perform…fascinating to watch, and a great feat of precision.”
“ … soloist Dalit Warshaw was mesmerizing to watch…Though the thereminist doesn’t actually touch her instrument, she must deploy an intense physicality to shape its sounds…”
“Schneider was following a tough act: theremin soloist Dalit Warshaw…Warshaw’s poker-faced manipulation of [the theremin] was a work of performance art.”
“…the performance was, on the whole, superb. Dalit Warshaw, composer and thereminist-extraordinaire, took on the lyrical solo part. She brought a very nice shape to Air’s opening and closing sections and seemed to have a lot of fun with its involved cadenza.”
“Dalit Hadass Warshaw’s 2006 Elegy on a Theme of Sappho, a charged work sporting long tones and occasional dissonant harmonies that reflected the sense of loss pervading the poem that inspired it…”
“Expertly controlling her instrument, Warshaw played it straight throughout—so straight, in fact, that her expressionless face, turned full to the audience, became part of the weirdness of it all.”
“The music on her new CD, Invocations (Albany Records), is brainy and surprising, bristling with dissonance one moment and purring lyrically along the next.“
“So an unassuming listener to Invocations…is in for a wonderful shock; the kind of shock that 21st-century new music seems to do better than music from any other era.”
“[Dalit Warshaw is a] graceful and sensitive pianist…[and] an intriguing orchestrator who draws a wealth of colors from an ensemble.”
Press for the Azrieli Music Prize
2026 Azrieli Music Prizes for Composers Announced
SYMPHONY (from the League of American Orchestras)
The Montreal-based Azrieli Music, Arts and Culture Centre named four composers as the 2026 Azrieli Music Prizes Laureates…
Congratulations to Dalit Hadass Warshaw
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
The Azrieli Foundation recognized New York-based composer, pianist, and thereminist Dalit Hadass Warshaw as the 2026…
Classical Music News The Azrieli Foundation Names 2026 Azrieli Music Prizes Laureates
THE VIOLIN CHANNEL
Four composers have won prizes and commissions for new Jewish, Canadian, and International works…
Interview: Composer Dalit Hadass Warshaw, Winner of the 2026 Azrieli Commission for Jewish Music
BLOGCRITICS
The 2026 laureates of the prestigious Azrieli Music Prizes were recently announced, and we’re speaking with each…
Azrieli Music Prize recognizes works that tell a family story of the Holocaust, and transform medieval poetry
THE CANADIAN JEWISH NEWS
When the Azrieli Music Prize (AMP) was first established in 2014, philanthropist and soprano Sharon Azrieli set out to create…
Canada’s Azrieli Music Prizes Announce 2026 Laureates: Four Composers Honoured
WINNIPEG’S CLASSIC 107
The Azrieli Music, Arts and Culture Centre (AMACC) has announced the four remarkable composers selected as the 2026 Azrieli Music Prizes (AMP) Laureates…
Azrieli Music Prizes Announced
LIMELIGHT
The Azrieli Foundation has announced four composers as laureates of Canada’s 2026 Azrieli Music Prizes (AMP), one of the world’s most significant composition awards…
FEATURE | The Four Azrieli Music Prize Laureates For 2026 Answer A Few Questions About Their Work
LUDWIG VAN TORONTO
Earlier this month, the Azrieli Music, Arts and Culture Centre (AMACC) named the four Azrieli Music Prize Laureates for 2026….
Azrieli Music, Arts and Culture Centre Announces 4 Winners of 2026 Music Prizes
OPERAWIRE
The Azrieli Music, Arts and Culture Centre (AMACC) has announced the four laureates of the 2026 Azrieli Music Prizes (AMP)…
The Azrieli Foundation Announced the 2026 Azrieli Music Prizes Laureates
PIZZICATO
The Azrieli Music, Arts and Culture Centre has announced four composers as the 2026 Azrieli Music Prizes Laureates…
Azrieli Music Prizes
RONDO
[Translated] International composers set new standards – the Azrieli Music Prizes 2026 bring fresh sound perspectives…
Newswire | The Azrieli Foundation Announces 2026 Azrieli Music Prizes Laureates
LA SCENA MUSICALE
Today, the Azrieli Music, Arts and Culture Centre (AMACC) named four outstanding composers as the 2026 Azrieli Music…
The Azrieli Foundation Announces 2026 Azrieli Music Prizes Laureates
THAT ERIC ALPER
Today, the Azrieli Music, Arts and Culture Centre (AMACC) named four outstanding composers as the 2026 Azrieli…
Azrieli Foundation Announces 2026 Azrieli Music Prizes Laureates
BLOGCRITICS
The Azrieli Music, Arts and Culture Centre (AMACC) today announced the recipients of the 2026 Azrieli Music Prizes (AMP)…
The Azrieli Foundation Announces 2026 Azrieli Music Prizes Laureates
THAT ERIC ALPER
Today, the Azrieli Music, Arts and Culture Centre (AMACC) named four outstanding composers as the 2026 Azrieli…
Azrieli Foundation Announces 2026 Azrieli Music Prizes Laureates
BLOGCRITICS
The Azrieli Music, Arts and Culture Centre (AMACC) today announced the recipients of the 2026 Azrieli Music Prizes (AMP)…
Press for the BMOP Recording
Warshaw: Sirens; Responses; Camille's Dance
AMERICAN RECORD GUIDE
I first heard Dalit Hadass Warshaw’s (b 1974) theremin concerto Sirens (2017) 6 years ago at a BMOP concert…
Dalit Hadass Warshaw | Sirens: A Concerto for Theremin and Orchestra etc
BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE
The American composer Dalit Hadass Warshaw wirtes in a meandering, sinuous style that is ideally suited to the sound…
Dalit Hadass Warshaw Sirens: A Concerto for Theremin and Orchestra
CD HotList
The theremin is a fascinating instrument. Invented in the 1920s, it senses the position of the player’s hands relative…
Warshaw: Camille's Dance. Responses. Sirens: A Concerto for Theremin and Orchestra
GRAMOPHONE
The three works by Dalit Hadass Warshaw (b1974) on the Boston Modern Orchestra Project’s newest recording show…
Four Recordings: New Music for Orchestra
MUSICAL AMERICA
Dalit Hadass Warshaw was the youngest person ever to win the BMI Award back in 1984 with her orchestral piece…
Dalit Hadass Warshaw, Boston Modern Orchestra Project / Gil Rose – Sirens
PAN M 360
This dedicated monograph on composer Dalit Hadass Warshaw presents three of her pieces, the most interesting of which…
Dalit Warshaw on BMOP (CD Review)
SEQUENZA21
Dalit Warshaw (b. 1974) is a multi-threat artist. As a composer and pianist, she has created a distinguished career. Her first orchestra…
Boston Modern Orchestra Project
TAKE EFFECT
10/10. The Grammy Award winning outfit, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, take direction from Gil Rose for this debut by...