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Jorge Mario Liderman

[b]Jorge Liderman[/b] (16 Nov 1957, Buenos Aires — 3 Feb 2008, El Cerrito, CA) was an American composer and music professor at the [l=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 [a=Duo46] and partially funded by the Guggenheim Fellowship in 2003. The resulting [i][r=20041417][/i] CD was released by [l=Albany Records]. Liderman finished a follow-up "Aires de Sefarad II" cycle shortly before his untimely death.