Elena Kats-Chernin

The piece is part of the ballet Wild Swans, choreographed by Meryl Tankard at the Sydney Opera House in 2002, based on the fairy tale The Wild Swans by Hans Christian Andersen. Originally scored for s...

The piece is part of the ballet Wild Swans, choreographed by Meryl Tankard at the Sydney Opera House in 2002, based on the fairy tale The Wild Swans by Hans Christian Andersen. Originally scored for s...

The piece is part of the ballet Wild Swans, choreographed by Meryl Tankard at the Sydney Opera House in 2002, based on the fairy tale The Wild Swans by Hans Christian Andersen. Originally scored for s...

The 10-minute piece was written in 2006 for the Berlin Philharmonic's education/dance project 'Modern Times', three years after the orchestra had caused a sensation with 'Rhythm Is It!'. Purple Silenc...

The 10-minute piece was written in 2006 for the Berlin Philharmonic's education/dance project 'Modern Times', three years after the orchestra had caused a sensation with 'Rhythm Is It!'. Purple Silenc...

Das dreieinhalbminütige Stück (eingespielt vom Acacia Quartet auf der CD Blue Silence beim Label Vexations840) gehört zu einer Reihe melancholischer Miniaturen, die die usbekisch-australische Komponis...

In 1996, clarinettist Peter Jenkin, a member of the Sydney Alpha Ensemble, asked several composers in Australia to write one-minute pieces for a concert. Elena Kats-Chernin drew on melodic and harmoni...

Grand Rag is part of a project in which 67 composers each composed a piece for solo musicians of ANAM (Australian National Academy of Music) in 2021. Elena Kats-Chernin wrote her piece in close collab...

While composing Joy in a Minor Key I attempted to achieve a fleeting, light, poetic, almost never 'touching the ground' quality. The piece is written in my favourite form of rondo waltz with a coda,'...

When I came to Sydney from Russia in 1975 with my sister and parents, we took only a few belongings with us, including beautiful hand-embroidered bed linen. It was so valuable that we never used it. O...

'I wrote Naive Waltz in the early 90s for a dance piece called "Zeche 2" in Bochum, Germany. It was one of a few waltzes in that production and the only one to survive the passing of time,' says Elena...

“In 2006 Kylie Kwong who is the ambassador for the Fair Trade Association of Australia and NZ asked me to write a piece for Fair Trade event, she asked for something earthy and poetic and she told me...

“In 2006 Kylie Kwong who is the ambassador for the Fair Trade Association of Australia and NZ asked me to write a piece for Fair Trade event, she asked for something earthy and poetic and she told me...

Tangos, like ragtimes and waltzes, are an integral part of Elena Kats-Chernin's music, always in a new and varied form. In it, the composer allusively combines her present time with the classical trad...

Being Russian born I have a strong connection to the ballet scores of Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev and Stravinsky, and as a result in the Wild Swans, more than in any other work of mine, I allowed myself th...

Dieses Album versammelt eine Reihe kurzer Stücke der Komponistin in Fassungen für Violine und Klavier. Unter ihnen Hits wie Russian Rag, Slicked Back Tango, Naive Waltz oder Peggy's Minute Rag, oft en...

These six short pieces are suitable for instrumental students and familiarise them with techniques such as double stops or left-hand pizzicato. Pieces 2 and 3 offer the same music with varying degrees...

Elena Kats-Chernin has collaborated with writer Joanna Murray-Smith several times, most recently on the TV soap opera The Divorce. A Nostalgic Piece was originally composed as incidental music for the...

Note by the composer: 'This piece was written in 2006 (for violoncello and piano) for an exhibition dedicated to artists suffering from schizophrenia. The basis of the piece is a sequence of four chor...

Elena Kats-Chernin (* 4. November 1957 in Taschkent) ist eine usbekisch-australische Komponistin.

Elena Kats-Chernin composed this piece in its original form for solo piano in 1996 when staying on a scholarship at the former home of the Australian composer Peggy Glanville-Hicks (1912 - 1990), as a...

Russian Rag is one of Elena Kats-Chernins most famous pieces. It was arranged by her for various instrumentations and was used, among other things, as film music in the clay animation film Mary & Max....

Tangos, like ragtimes and waltzes, are an integral part of Elena Kats-Chernin's music, always in a new and varied form. In it, the composer allusively combines her present time with the classical trad...

Der Welterfolg aus dem Ballett 'Wild Swans' hier arrangiert für Streichquartett.