Elena Kats-Chernin

I am Cello is one of several solo pieces by means of which the Australian-based composer remained in contact with her interpreters all over the world during the time of the coronavirus pandemic, compo...

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...

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...

Anmerkung der Komponistin: Dieses Stückes wurde 2010 im Original für Carillon geschrieben, im Auftrag von Lyn Fuller, der Carilloneurin von Canberra, als Teil einer Suite mit dem Titel 'Ragged Bells'...

Eliza Aria by Elena Kats-Chernin has become a worldwide success. Composed for the fairy-tale ballet Wild Swans choreographed by Maryl Tankard in 2003, it has become internationally known as theme melo...

The composer wrote her trio for the Haydn celebrations in Eisenstadt in 2009. Inspired by the information that Haydn had wanted the slow movement of his 'Funeral Symphony' No. 44 for his funeral, Kats...

Composer's note: 'In 2000 I wrote a piece called Sand Waltz for the Canberra Wind Players. In the middle of it I wrote a four-chord progression. When I started working on the ballet Wild Swans (2003)...

Composer's note: 'Originally a song for children about flying in ones dreams, this lyrical piece tries never to touch the ground. The work was used in the Rugby 2003 World Cup opening ceremony in a ve...

The rhapsodic, almost ten-minute piece draws its charm from changing metres and various dramatic climaxes within an overall darkly overcast mood. The 'ballad' of the title develops, after a melancholy...

The rhapsodic piece of almost ten minutes draws its charm from changing metres and various dramatic climaxes within an overall dark, overcast mood. The Ballade (ballad) of the title develops, after a...

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 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 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...