Elena Kats-Chernin

Die 'Eliza Aria' aus Kats-Chernins Ballettsuite 'Wild Swans' verdankt ihre Popularität ihrer schlichten, gefühlvollen Art. Damit eignete sie sich bestens für die Unterlegung eines animierten Werbespot...

From the preface:'Elena Kats-Chernin has been writing piano music since she was a little girl. In Piano Village, a mixed collection of pieces of up to five minutes, there are works from intermediate l...

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

The Eliza Aria from Kats-Chernin's ballet suite Wild Swans owes its popularity to the Lloyds TSB advert which made this aria a worldwide success.Versions are now available for piano solo, flute and pi...

Die Komponistin schrieb ihr Trio für die Haydn-Feierlichkeiten in Eisenstadt 2009. Angeregt von der Information, Haydn habe sich für sein Begräbnis den langsamen Satz seiner 'Trauersinfonie' Nr. 44 ge...

Anmerkung der Komponistin: 'Ein lyrisches Stück, das versucht, niemals den Boden zu berühren - denn ursprünglich war es ein Lied für Kinder über das Fliegen im Traum. In einer Version für großes Orche...

'Russian Rag' ist eines von Elena Kats-Chernins bekanntesten Stücken, wurde von ihr für verschiedene Besetzungen arrangiert und fand unter anderem als Filmmusik in dem Knet-Animationsfilm 'Mary & Max'...

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

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

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...

Lloyds TSB's new high profile advertising campaign, screened on TV in the UK since 4 February 2007, has attracted a vast amount of attention - specifically because of its music! The accompanying mus...

Elena Kats-Chernin wrote Afterwards for the 18th birthday of a young acquaintance, Guy Knopke, who had just started playing the bassoon. The title refers to the new adventures and changes that can lie...

Gothic horror in music: This chamber choir miniature in 3/4 time, as entertaining as it is creepy, pays homage to Alban Berg's Wozzeck, which is directly quoted with the line 'Ein schöner Mord, ein gu...

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...

Created in 2000, this work for children's choir and large orchestra was transformed by the Australian composer into the present version with piano accompaniment in 2008. Even in the reduced and conden...

Choirs will love this light-hearted text set to a flowing piano accompaniment.

Little Piece of Gossip was commissioned by Geoffrey Morris and was created in close communication between composer and guitarist. It explores instrument-specific questions such as: "How do percussive...

“The notes have space around them in this piece, a little bit like dust over the keys. The title refers to roses delivered to a loved one, they are packed in a box and have a beautiful glow, very tend...

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...

“The notes have space around them in this piece, a little bit like dust over the keys. The title refers to roses delivered to a loved one, they are packed in a box and have a beautiful glow, very tend...

Das Stück ist ein Teil des Balletts Wild Swans, das Meryl Tankard 2002 im Opernhaus Sydney auf Grundlage des Märchens Die wilden Schwäne von Hans Christian Andersen choreographiert hat. Ursprünglich m...

This small suite of three solo pieces was written for violist Deborah Lander, a member of the Sydney Alpha Ensemble, which recorded Kats-Chernin's first portrait CD Clocks for ABC Classics in 1997. Th...

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...

Das Stück ist ein Teil des Balletts Wild Swans, das Meryl Tankard 2002 im Opernhaus Sydney auf Grundlage des Märchens Die wilden Schwäne von Hans Christian Andersen choreographiert hat. Ursprünglich m...