Sheet Music by Women Composers for String Ensemble: Versatile Works

Chen Yi describes the cheery interplay of HAPPY TUNE as: 'When one instrument plays a lively melody, the other plays a vivid rhythmic pattern in the accompaniment. The pair of string instruments imita...

TACHUN (SPRING OUTING) was composed in 2021 for The Joy Project, to commission uplifting works for performance at free outdoor concerts in the San Francisco Bay region. The work's title comes from the...

“Spring Vitality,” the first movement of Chen Yi's SONG OF SPRING for string quartet, embeds rhythmic speech in quietly churning fragments of polyphony to suggest the sounds of falling rain, sure to c...

Long before writing Passalega, I harboured the idea of creating some form of organically homogeneous chain of musical tensions evolving ever more distinctly into a musical utterance, although still in...

Commissioned by Jana Marko and Alexander Gérard for the Elbphilharmonie. When I was younger I enjoyed writing program notes for my music - I felt it was a way for me to protect it from possible misund...

Das Spielen im Duo macht sowohl professionellen Musikern als auch Laien viel Freude und gibt kreative Impulse für das Musizieren. Die Klangverbindung unterschiedlicher Streichinstrumente übt durch die...

An exciting communicative musical journey: These Dialogues have the violin and cello adopting different personalities, temperaments and moods to 'speak' to one another. The titles of the pieces and de...

Stone, Salt and Sky by Sally Beamish is a 15-minute duet for violin and cello in three movements. The work reflects the colours and open spaces of Orkney (Scotland), and it's music, as well as a refer...

Chen Yi describes the cheery interplay of HAPPY TUNE as: 'When one instrument plays a lively melody, the other plays a vivid rhythmic pattern in the accompaniment. The pair of string instruments imita...

A lovely duet from Bernofsky; Pas de Deux was commissioned by Roberta Bronecki and premiered on a boat on Lake Winnipesaukee in New Hampshire. Listen to a performance by Third Millennium Ensemble on S...

Leichte Bearbeitungen für 2 Violinen und Violoncello (auch chorisch ausführbar)

Leichte Bearbeitungen für 2 Violinen und Violoncello, auch chorisch ausführbar

Playing with Style is a set of colorful concert pieces in a variety of styles, including tango, ragtime, and jazz. These audience-pleasing pieces are enjoyable to play and will broaden the musical hor...

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.

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...