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Elena Davidovna Kats-Chernin AO (born 4 November 1957) is a Soviet-born Australian composer and pianist, best known for her ballet Wild Swans.
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- Her mother was an eye surgeon. Elena’s mother wanted to become a pianist but felt she was better at medicine. So, she became a pioneering eye surgeon specialising in operations to correct cross-eye syndrome in children.
- She felt “culture shock” upon arrival in Australia. Having experienced food shortages and other difficult aspects of life in her native Russia, the teenaged Elena was shocked — and delighted — with her first impressions of Australia.
- She was part of Sydney’s underground theatre scene. In her last year at the Sydney Conservatorium, she fell in with a group of aspiring avant-garde theatre artists.
- Rags became riches. If there’s one musical form with which Elena is particularly identified, it’s probably ragtime. But she only began to write rags after a commission from ABC Classics who were putting together a CD with pianist Donna Coleman titled Rags to Riches.
Elena Kats-Chernin is one of the most cosmopolitan composers working today, having reached millions of listeners worldwide through her prolific catalogue of works for theatre, ballet, orchestra, and chamber ensemble. Her dramatically vivid music communicates a mixture of light-heartedness and heavy melancholy, combining strong rhythmic figures ...
Born in 1957 in Tashkent (Uzbekistan), Elena Kats-Chernin received training at the Gnessin Musical College before immigrating to Australia in 1975. She graduated from the New South Wales Conservatorium of Music in 1980 and was awarded a DAAD (German academic exchange) grant to study with Helmut Lachenmann in Hanover.
The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra will premiere all six movements of Elena’s new Sarenka Concerto: for Solo Violin and Solo Violincello, which features in this year’s Celebrating Women in Music series.
Jan 20, 2024 · Explore performances, recordings, and synchs of Elena Kats-Chernin's music, including operas, orchestral, chamber, and solo works.
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Learn about Elena Kats-Chernin's life, works, awards and achievements on the Australian Music Centre website. Explore her diverse and acclaimed compositions for orchestra, chamber, ballet, opera and more.
