Yonatan Dvir is an Israeli-Italian musician based in Los Angeles, CA.  He is a recent graduate of the Eastman School of Music, where he earned a Master's Degree in Orchestral Conducting. During that time he served as assistant conductor to the Eastman School Symphony Orchestra and the Eastman Philharmonia. He also earned an Artist Diploma with Distinction at OAcademy 2025, under the guidance of Carlos Miguel Prieto and Alexander Shelley. 

 

In recent years, Yonatan has worked as guest conductor with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, Susquehanna Symphony Orchestra, 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 Anthony Parnther, Neil Varon, Andreas Delfs, and Tito Muñoz.

 

Beyond his work as an orchestral conductor, Yonatan is an active orchestrator and arranger. His credits range from Pops Arranging for the San Bernardino Symphony to the latest Red Bull Symphonic session, on which he was lead orchestrator. 

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In 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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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).