Elena Kats-Chernin

'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...

Tangos gehören, wie Ragtimes oder Walzer, in immer neu variierter Form zum festen Bestandteil von Elena Kats-Chernins Musik. Anspielungsreich verbindet die Komponistin darin ihre Gegenwart mit der kla...

Blue Rose is based on two folk melodies which have been freely developed. It uses uneven beats and bars which creates a rocking feeling that is somewhat reminiscent of Balkan music. The title refers t...

Mit fulminanter, kraftvoller Dynamik werden die entstehenden Klangfelder ausgelotet.

Mit fulminanter, kraftvoller Dynamik werden die entstehenden Klangfelder ausgelotet.

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

Ursprünglich für Klarinettenquartett geschrieben, pendelt diese minimalistische Habanera melancholisch zwischen zwei Akkorden, bis ein bewegterer Mittelteil an die bittersüße Harmonik Astor Piazzollas...

Schon mit ihrem Russian Rag, einer Latin-Version von Rachmaninows cis-Moll-Prélude und eines ihrer bekanntesten Stücke, bewies Elena Kats-Chernin, dass sie eine ‚Tanguera' ist ... Auch die Miniatur Lu...

Mezmer for string quartet is an adaptation of the last movement of Re-Collecting ASTORoids, an earlier suite for orchestra from Kats-Chernin. Commissioned by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, the suit...

Originally written for a suite called Silver Poetry, a Suite on Australian Images, for German flautist Christiane Meininger, whose specially designed flute bears that name ('Poesie in Silber'), this s...

Entstanden 1992 für die Bochumer Tanztheaterproduktion Return und jüngst eingespielt vom Acacia Quartet auf der CD Blue Silence beim Label Vexations840, huldigt diese Miniatur der usbekisch-australisc...