ALBUMThe Future is Female, Vol. 2: The DanceSarah Cahill
ALBUMKats-Chernin: Kismet - Vignettes for Violin and PianoVov Dylan & Clemens Leske
ALBUMFableJacinta Dennett
ALBUMFire DancesMuses Trio
ALBUMWind SongRiley Lee, Elena Kats-Chernin & Christina Leonard
ALBUMThe Little Green Road to FairylandCamerata - Queensland's Chamber Orchestra & Katie Noonan
ALBUMThe OfferingFlinders Quartet
ALBUMRags, Bags and TangosDeborah de Graaff & Tonya Lemoh
ALBUMI Was Like Wow: Contemporary Music for BassoonLorelei Dowling
ALBUMKats-Chernin: Unsent Love Letters, Meditations on Erik SatieTamara-Anna Cislowska
ALBUMA Piece of QuietLior, Idea of North & Elena Kats-Chernin
ALBUMButterflying: Piano Music of Elena Kats-CherninElena Kats-Chernin & Tamara-Anna Cislowska
ALBUMWith Love and FuryBrodsky Quartet & Katie Noonan
ALBUMOblivionEnsemble Liaison
ALBUMBlue Skies, Magpies and GoldfishThoroughbass & Diana Weston
ALBUMZia: Del Sol String QuartetDel Sol Quartet
ALBUMMichael Collins Plays Works for Clarinet and OrchestraMichael Collins & Swedish Chamber Orchestra
ALBUMBlue SilenceAcacia Quartet
ALBUMOut of the BluesElena Riu & Joby Burgess
ALBUMPlay It AgainTrío Arbós
ALBUMCREATIONDidgeridoo: Jeremy Donovan Trumpets: Susan Williams (solo in, Clarini Trumpet Consort, Clarini Trumpet Consort & Jeremy Donovan & Susan Williams
ALBUMMindsAra Malikian & Daniel Del Pino
ALBUMPiano Trios - Krammer, G. - Woolrich, J. - Ye, X.G. - Doderer, J. - Ndodana-Breen, B. - Sanchez-Verdu, J. (Dedicated To Haydn)Haydn Trio Eisenstadt
ALBUMKino Klassik - Besondere Filmmusik: Menschen am Sonntag (Original Score)Elena Kats-Chernin
ALBUMEmperorThe Royal Netherlands Army Band 'Johan Willem Friso', Ivan Meylemans, The Northern Winds, Jan de Haan, Nagoya University of Arts Wind Orchestra, Akihiro Onogawa, Masaichi Takeuchi, The Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama Wind Orchestra, Bryan Allen & The Midwest Winds
ALBUMGraffitiPresent Music Ensemble & Kevin Stalheim
ALBUMBolling, C.: Suite No. 1 - Weinberg, A.: Salsa Suite - Kats-Chernin, E.: Silver Poetry SuiteChristiane Meininger, Roger Goldberg, André Schubert & Rainer Gepp
ALBUMKats-Chernin: Ragtime & BlueNicola Sweeney & Sarah Nicolls
ALBUMElena Kats-Chernin: Wild SwansTasmanian Symphony Orchestra & Ola Rudner
ALBUMTann: Gardens of Anna Maria Luisa De' Medici - Fabregas: Voces de Mi TierraMeininger Trio, Françoise Groben & Christiane Meininger
ALBUMClocksSydney Alpha Ensemble & David Stanhope
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About Elena Kats-Chernin
Artist Biography
The winding, rhythmic theme from “Eliza Aria” featured in the ballet Wild Swans (2002) epitomises Australian composer Elena Kats-Chernin's quirky blend of minimalism, modernism and Russian folk traditions. The piece, which was premiered by the Australian Ballet at the Sydney Opera House in 2003, propelled the composer into popularity when it was used in a prominent advertising campaign in 2007; it was subsequently performed in a solo piano arrangement by Lang Lang. Kats-Chernin was born in 1957 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan and studied at Moscow’s Gnesin Russian Academy of Music. At 17, Kats-Chernin emigrated to Australia, where she continued her studies at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, becoming the first graduate to be granted a double degree as pianist and composer. She then moved to Hannover to work with Helmut Lachenmann, remaining in Germany for over a decade before returning to Australia. Her extensive catalogue includes an operatic adaptation of Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows (2021) and The Witching Hour (2016), a concerto for eight double basses and orchestra.
Hometown
Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Genre
Classical
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