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KATS-CHERNIN, Elena

Elena Kats-Chernin
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Born in Tashkent (Uzbekistan), Nov 4, 1957

  • Elena Kats-Chernin is an Australian composer of Uzbek origin. In 1975, she emigrated with her family to Australia.
  • Kats-Chernin spent over a decade living and composing in Germany before returning to Sydney in 1994, where she still currently resides.
  • The composer’s catalog includes works for stage, orchestra, chamber ensemble, choir, and solo instruments. Her music often involves a single, simple idea which is then manipulated in distinctive ways.
    • “Important aspects of her works are concerned with an exploration of timbres and textures and a sense of the ridiculous.”1

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Biography from Opera Australia

Sources

  1. Ruth Lee Martin, “Kats-Chernin, Elena,” Grove Music Online (2001), accessed April 20, 2023, https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000047746.

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