Tamar Muskal

Tamar Muskal (; born 1965) is an Israeli-American composer. She received a Pulitzer Prize nomination for her 2005 piece The Yellow Wind. She was composer-in-residence for the Westchester Philharmonic and is a 2009 Guggenheim Fellow.

Biography Tamar Muskal was born in Jerusalem in 1965 and obtained her BA from the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance. Her teachers include Mark Kopytman, Martin Bresnick, Jacob Druckman, Ezra Laderman, David Del Tredici, Tania Leon, She also received a Pulitzer Prize nomination for The Yellow Wind.

She composed "Mar de Leche", the third track of Maya Beiser's 2010 album Provenance. She and Barbara Harbach provided original scores for a 2016 Women in Film & Television screening of some of Alice Guy-Blaché's silent films. She did the last tracks of the four-composer flute album Alive in the Studio. She composed "Where Do We Belong? A Conversation with Bach" in the album New for Violin & Piano; the American Record Guide said that "Muskal's intellectual conversation with Bach is palpable here".

In 2017, she did a piece commemorating Sojourner Truth, commissioned by Close Encounters With Music.

She spent years as composer-in-residence for the Westchester Philharmonic education program.

As of 2001, Muskal was a resident of Manhattan.