Jorge Liderman

Jorge Mario Liderman (November 16, 1957 – February 3, 2008) was an Argentine and American composer.

He was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship in 2003 to partially fund a new work for Duo46 titled Aires de Sefarad: 46 Spanish Songs for Violin and Guitar.

Jorge went on to compose a second set of 46 songs for Duo46 titled Aires de Sefarad II shortly before his death in 2008.

He studied at the Rubin School of Music in Jerusalem and earned a doctorate in composition from the University of Chicago in 1988.

He died February 3, 2008, in an apparent suicide, struck by an incoming train at the El Cerrito Plaza Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) station in El Cerrito.