Avior Byron

Avior Byron (born 1973) is an Israeli singer songwriter and musicologist.

Biography Avior Byron was born in Petah Tikva,

and grew up in Yavne. From the age of ten he studied classical piano, and from thirteen learnt rock and jazz guitar. At the age of fifteen, he had a band, in which he was the composer, the singer and the guitarist.

He started to study at Tel Aviv University, and he graduated with a B.A. in musicology and orchestration. Avior has a doctorate in music from Royal Holloway, University of London.

His tutor for the doctorate was Prof. John Rink, and the subject of his thesis was "Schoenberg as a performer: esthetics in practice".

The melodies, and style of playing are influenced by classical music, rock, jazz, Folk and alternative tuning of the guitar.

“Zipporah" is a love song to his wife.

Byron has published articles in musicology journals, including "Music Theory Online". He specializes in the following fields: Research into musical performance, theory and analysis, twentieth century music.

Currently Byron is working on a book, on Arnold Schoenberg, to be published by Oxford University Press.

He has written a number of articles for Nrg and Ynet.

He worked as a lecturer at Bar-Ilan University.

Avior Byron lives in Mazkeret Batya with his wife and their three children.