Hed Bahack (b. 1994) is an Israeli composer based in Leipzig, Germany. His music has been performed and commissioned by ensembles including Klangforum Wien, Ensemble Modern, Ensemble Recherche, Ensemble Ascolta, IEMA, and Quatuor Diotima, as well as by soloists such as Ilya Gringolts and Lawrence Power. His works have been presented at festivals including the cresc… Biennial for Contemporary Music (Frankfurt), Impuls (Graz), ARCo (Marseille), Mizmorim (Basel), and ZfGM (Leipzig). His work has been described as “…beautiful… a path of movements and colours… timbrally crisp and full of magic” (Gianluigi Mattietti, MusicPaper).

He has received several awards, among them the Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft Prize (2026), Israel’s Culture Minister Composition Prize (2024), the Gesellschaft für Musiktheorie 1st Prize (2023), and the “Szymanowski” 2nd Prize, as well as scholarships from the Deutscher Musikrat and the America-Israel Foundation. He has been an Artist in Residence at Otte-1 Künstlerhaus (Eckernförde), mare-Künstlerhaus (Wentorf bei Hamburg), and the Kunsthof Dahrenstedt.