Elena Kats-Chernin - Clocks, Sydney Alpha Ensemble

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Elena Kats-Chernin - Clocks, Sydney Alpha Ensemble
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Elena Kats-Chernin
Clocks
Sydney Alpha Ensemble

1 Cadences, Deviations and Scarlatti (1995)
for flute/piccolo, oboe, clarinet, horn, trumpet, trombone, tuba,
percussion, harp, piano, violin, viola, cello, double bass

2 Purple Prelude (1996)
for clarinet, harp, piano, violin, viola, cello, double bass

3 Concertino (1994)
for solo violin, flute/piccolo, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, contrabassoon,
horn, trumpet, trombone, 2 percussion, piano, double bass
Georges Lentz solo violin

4 Variations in a Serious Black Dress (1995)
for solo piano
Stephanie McCallum piano

5-8 Clocks (1993)
for flute/piccolo, oboe, clarinet, saxophone, bassoon, contrabassoon,
horn, trumpet, trombone, 2 percussion, harp, 2 pianos, 3 violins,2 violas, cello, double bass, tape
5 Part I
6 Part II ‘Blues’
7 Part III ‘Crash’
8 Part IV

9 Russian Rag (1996)
for clarinet, trumpet, marimba, harp, violin, viola, cello, double bass

Elena Kats-Chernin (born 4 November 1957) is a Soviet-born Australian composer.

Biography

Elena Kats-Chernin was born in 1957 in the Uzbekistan capital of Tashkent. In 1975, she and her family emigrated from the Soviet Union to Australia. She studied composition with Richard Toop, graduating in 1980, and then studied with Helmut Lachenmann in Hanover, Germany, with the assistance of a DAAD Fellowship.

While in Europe Kats-Chernin became active in theatre and ballet, composing for state theatres in Berlin, Vienna, Hamburg and Bochum, specifically working with renowned choreographer Reinhild Hoffmann. Her music attracted the attention of the Ensemble Modern and in 1993 she wrote her breakthrough work Clocks for them. It has since been performed around the world, including UK, Denmark, Holland, Finland, USA and Australia.

Kats-Chernin remained in Germany for 13 years, returning to Australia in 1994. Since her return, she has written three chamber operas (Iphis, Matricide and Undertow), two piano concertos and works for many performers and ensembles as well as for the “Deep Sea Dreaming” Segment of the opening ceremony of the Sydney Olympic Games, 2000.

She has also written soundtracks for three silent films for the European TV channel ZDF/arte: Victor Sostrom’s Phantom Chariot (Swedish title Korkarlen), Billy Wilder’s and Robert Siodmak’s People on Sunday (German title Menschen am Sonntag) and Crisis (German title Abwege) of G.W. Pabst.

In 1996 Kats-Chernin received the Jean Bogan Memorial Prize for piano solo piece Charleston Noir and the Sounds Australian Award for Cadences, Deviations and Scarlatti for 14 instruments.

Six portrait CDs of Kats-Chernin’s music have been released so far, on labels including ABC Classics, the German label Wergo, Signum (UK), and, most recently, Chamber of Horrors on Tall Poppies.

Her score for the ballet Wild Swans, based on the fairy-tale by Hans Christian Andersen received acclaimed premiere seasons in Sydney and Melbourne and was broadcast on ABC TV in December 2003. In 2004 EKC was awarded the Green Room Award and the Helpmann Award for this score in the category “best original score”.

In October 2003 Kats-Chernin wrote music for the Rugby World Cup opening ceremony and in 2004 she was awarded a two-year Fellowship from the Australia Council to work with Meryl Tankard on a new dance/opera project based on life and work of Henri Toulouse-Lautrec.

The most recent premiere of her music for five instruments happened as an integral part of the stage adaptation of David Malouf’s iconic book Johnno, which opened the Brisbane Festival on 14th July 2006.

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