Yehudi Wyner

Yehudi Wyner (born June 1, 1929, in Calgary, Alberta) is an American composer, pianist, conductor and music educator.

His father, Lazar Weiner, was an eminent composer of Yiddish art songs.

Wyner attended Juilliard, Yale and Harvard, and was a student of Paul Hindemith and Walter Piston.

He has written music in a variety of genres, including compositions for orchestra, chamber ensembles, solo voice and solo instruments, as well as theatrical music and settings of the Jewish liturgy.

In 2006, Wyner won the Pulitzer Prize for Music for his piano concerto Chiavi in Mano.