Chaya Czernowin

Hace muchos años vi una escultura de Anish Kapoor: en ella había dos enormes orbes divididos por la mitad que colgaban de dos lados de la sala. Los orbes eran de un azul púrpura oscuro, tan oscuro que...

La idea de un instrumento compuesto se remonta a mis obras para solistas grabadas y en directo de alrededor de 1988. En Afatsim, The Crossroads y String Quartet, instrumentos dispares se convierten en...

'Sahaf' is part of the cycle 'Shifting Gravity' in which the Israeli composer, known worldwide for her Mozart adaptation Zaïde/Adama, explores the laws of physics and their physical realization in a p...

Knights of the strange is a work of music poetry, where a few words highlight the speculative/poetic connections between dreams, reality and reflection. The duo version is like an independent plant wh...

Anea is an invented name for a music-crystal modelled on an ionic crystal. It is a piece written in three independent and individual movements which can be played separately or together.Seed I and See...

In this work, the quartet becomes a single composite instrument. This instrument cannot play individual sounds but rather composite gestures, of which the initial impulse linked to the production of a...

A 12-minute composition in two parts: The first is played by three piccolos, the second by three different flutes. The instrument is treated like a windpipe - the production of raw and unsophisticated...

'Sahaf' is part of the cycle 'Shifting Gravity' in which the Israeli composer, known worldwide for her Mozart adaptation Zaïde/Adama, explores the laws of physics and their physical realization in a p...

'Algae' transfers the structure of small-celled organisms, which nevertheless combine to form widely floating carpets, to the level of language and music. German-English shreds of words generate a neo...

In this piece, the voice and the breath play an equal role in executing the musical text, as the breath is (at times) independent from the voice and equal to it in an almost contrapuntal relationship....

The original version for violin dates from 1981, thus being one of the early works by the Israeli composer who teaches at Harvard University. About 35 years later, Chaya Czernowin wrote the arrangemen...

The five short miniatures for two singers and five instruments were commissioned by the Miller Theatre at Columbia University in New York in 2014. The performers of the world premiere were the bariton...

The Quiet originated from watching a snowstorm from my window at night as the flakes danced in the weak light of the lamp outside. The desire to make the storm audible was the starting point for a jou...

The Quiet originated from watching a snowstorm from my window at night as the flakes danced in the weak light of the lamp outside. The desire to make the storm audible was the starting point for a jou...

Chaya Czernowin wrote this composition for violin solo as early as 1981, it is thus one of her early works. The world premiere took place in Berlin in 1983, shortly after the Israeli composer had come...

Chaya Czernowin wrote this composition for violin solo as early as 1981, it is thus one of her early works. The world premiere took place in Berlin in 1983, shortly after the Israeli composer had come...

This challenging slow duet for two bass clarinets in Bb combines expressive melodic writing, abrupt meter changes, and extreme dynamics that give this short composition an agitated and volatile charac...

A 12-minute composition in two parts: The first is played by three piccolos, the second by three different flutes. The instrument is treated like a windpipe - the production of raw and unsophisticated...