Yonatan Dvir is an Israeli-Italian conductor and composer based in Rochester, NY.  He is currently assistant conductor to both the Eastman School Symphony Orchestra and the Eastman Philharmonia, as he pursues his Master of Music in Orchestral Conducting. Yonatan is also a Conducting Fellow at OAcademy 2025, under the direction of Carlos Miguel Prieto, Scott Wilson, and Alexander Shelley. 

 

During his time at Eastman, he has also collaborated and performed with, the Eastman Film and Media Ensemble, OSSIA New Music Ensemble, the Eastman Chamber Orchestra, and a variety of other independent projects.

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Between the years of 2020 and 2022, Yonatan served as the artistic director of the Temple University Repertory Orchestra, and as the inaugural assistant and cover conductor for the Temple University Symphony Orchestra.

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In recent years, Yonatan has worked as guest conductor with the Susquehanna Symphony Orchestra, Abington Festival Strings, and as assistant to the National Symphony Orchestra in Santiago, Chile. In July 2022, he was a conducting fellow with the Chamber Orchestra of Belgrade. Among his mentors are Neil Varon, Andreas Delfs, Tito Muñoz, Jerry Hou, and José-Luis Domínguez.

 

Yonatan holds a Bachelor in Music Composition from Temple University, which he obtained in December 2022. As a composer, he has had several works premiered with ensembles such as the Jasper Quartet (May 2022), the Temple University New Music Ensemble (2019-2022), and Contemplum’s Soundprints concert series (2020-2022), and projects like NPR's 'From the Top' (2024). He has also participated in masterclasses with Samuel Adler, Tonia Ko, and George Tsontakis.​

 

Yonatan is the recipient of the Milan Conservatory prize in piano studies (2017) – where he studied trombone performance and music composition - and the Frances G. Lumsden memorial scholarship (2020).