Elena Kats-Chernin

Elena Kats-Chernin is one of Australia's leading composers * Trained in Moscow, Australia, and Germany, her distinctive idiom reflects her unique personal history * Music often combines chiseled rhythmic pulsation with a bittersweet melodic/harmonic language * Diverse output includes operas, orchestral works, chamber and solo pieces, plus music for dance, film, and theater * Interpreters include Ensemble Modern, Bang on a Can All-Stars, and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra

Works by Elena Kats-Chernin include:
Clocks (1993) for ensemble and tape 
Book of Rags (1995–99) for piano 
Wild Swans (2002) Ballet, with Eliza Aria and Wild Swans Suite 
Orpheus / Odysseus / Poppea (2012) modern adaptation of Monteverdi's operas 

Looking Ahead: UK premiere of Big Rhap by City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (17 Oct); children’s opera for the Komische Oper in Berlin, Jim Knopf and Lukas the Engine Driver, based on the award-winning book by Michael Ende (3 Nov); her version of The Wind in the Willows, the first opera based on the book, receives its world premiere at Staatstheater Kassel (June 2020)

"Her status as one of this country’s most prolific and consistently innovative composers remains unchallenged… [She] appears to achieve the impossible, straddling the two seemingly irreconcilable camps of intellectualism and accessibility." - Sydney Morning Herald