Elena Kats-Chernin: Intermediate Sheet Music

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...

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...

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...

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)...

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...

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...

'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...

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 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...

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

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...

The title refers to the writer Aurore Dupin (1804-1876) who, under the pseudonym of George Sand, ranks among the important self-confident and socio-critical women in 19th-century literature. Musicians...

Black Cat - behind the title, one may rightly assume an allusion to the composer's surname, which comes from the Russian language. Elena Kats-Chernin indulges her passion for ragtime and tango in this...

Eine neue Fassung der beliebten 'Eliza Aria' von Elena Kats-Chernin: vom Starpianisten Lang Lang für sein neues Album eingespielt und von der Komponistin persönlich eingerichtet. Die zauberhafte Melod...

Gothic Horror in Musik: Diese ebenso unterhaltsame wie grusligen Kammerchorminiatur im 3/4-Takt ist eine Hommage an Alban Bergs Wozzeck, der mit der Zeile 'Ein schöner Mord, ein guter Mord' direkt zit...

Für mich war es einer der seltenen Erlebnisse einen Titel für ein Werk schon einen Jahr vor dem tatsächlichen Komponieren zu haben. Entstanden ist es während eines Gespräches mit dem Harfenisten Marsh...

Anmerkung der Komponistin: Dieses Stück wurde ursprünglich für Cello und Klavier geschrieben. Es beginnt entspannt, wie mit Reminiszenzen an sanftmütige Figuren in Schwarzweißfilmen. Es endet jedoch i...