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For three decades composer Daniel Alcheh has explored the seamless fusion of technology and music, while never losing sight of emotional expression. He has written concert music, music for ballet and theatre, for feature films and animation, documentaries, TV shows and countless commercials. He has recorded and conducted orchestral sessions all over the world, including Europe, China, the middle east and the US and has collaborated with some of the most talented musicians and instrumentalists.

Alcheh completed both his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in composition at the music academy at Tel-Aviv University and wrote his Master’s thesis as a visiting scholar to the Music Technology Department at Chicago's Northwestern University. In 2001, he became a part of the Center for Computer Aided Music at Tel-Aviv University and worked at the multimedia department of the Israel Open University. Alcheh became one of the youngest-ever members of the Israeli Composers League, where he served as a board member and panel judge, and was awarded the league's Klon Prize for Composition. In 2002, his virtuoso violin-solo piece, Nocturne and Aubade was chosen as the obligatory contemporary piece at the Yehudi Menuhin International Violin Competition in Boulogne-sur-Mer, France. That same year, the Israel Festival in Jerusalem opened with his piece Trains for percussion, string quartet and electronics. A month later, Alcheh appeared as a guest composer to The 22nd Asian Composers League Festival in Seoul, Korea, where his String Trio for Violin, Viola and Cello was a prizewinner. 

Another notable premiere was his demanding Dying Pianos, for piano duo and recorded sound, commissioned by The Israeli Piano Duo. In 2012, Alcheh was named Composer-in-Residence in the Concerti in San Martino festival in Switzerland where his commissioned Septet, was performed. Alcheh's concert music is published by IMC and it continues to be premiered and performed throughout the world.

While still a student, Alcheh began his career in film music as a soundtrack producer for Dover Kosashvili's feature Late Marriage, one of Entertainment Weekly's Ten Best Films of 2002 and Newsweek's Top 15 Films of 2002. A scoring highlight includes The Trouble With Bliss, which features a star-studded cast, with the soundtrack released on the Sony Classical label.

Alcheh recently completed the score to the feature documentary For The Living, dealing with genocides and dehumanisation. The orchestral score was recorded with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and features renowned US soloists. This is his second collaboration with director Marc Bennett after the award winning The Tattooed Torah - an animated, holocaust tale based on a children's book and narrated by veteran actor Ed Asner. Supported by Spielberg's USC Shoah Foundation, the film has been dubbed and translated into several languages and features a score written for large orchestra, soloists and choir. 

His most recent stage work was the Stuttgart dance production Counter Balance: a one-of-a-kind underground sonic and visual experience at the Stuttgart Wasserspeicher. The art collective Unseen//Unheard, formed with renowned European photographer/technologist Tom Fecht, is currently completing the innovative video installation, Death of a Croupier.