Chaya Czernowin

In Adiantum Capillus-Veneris I öffnet Chaya Czernowin ein filigranes Klanglabyrinth aus der Spannung des Ein- und Ausatmens der Singstimme. Séverine Ballon versucht in ihrer Adaption, diesen Gestus un...

'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....

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....

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....

Das kurze Konzertstück ist auf ein Motto von Gaston Bachelard komponiert: "obscure Vegetation: black flowers bloom in matter's darkness".

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 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, in 2015, Chaya Czernowin arranged th...

Many years ago I saw a sculpture of Anish Kapoor: in this sculpture there were two huge halved orbs hanging from two sides of the room. The halved orbs were dark purple blue, which was so dark that th...

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...

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...

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...

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...

In Adiantum Capillus-Veneris I öffnet Chaya Czernowin ein filigranes Klanglabyrinth aus der Spannung des Ein- und Ausatmens der Singstimme. Séverine Ballon versucht in ihrer Adaption, diesen Gestus un...

'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....