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Elena Kats-Chernin & Ta Mara-Anna Cislowska RIVERSIDE THEATRES PRESENTS Butterfly ing Elena Kats-Chernin & Ta mara-Anna Cislowska Image by Steven Godbee MUSIC SUNDAY 10 APRIL AT 3PM my language, not words! What is so simply Ballet - was used in British Bank, Lloyds Landing was featured in the Gallipolli MUSICIANS played or written in music is incredibly difficult TSB’s celebrated ad campaign ‘For The Symphony project, which premiered in to express in words. Journey’. Her Russian Rag was used in the Istanbul, Turkey and Brisbane, Australia. ELENA KATS-CHERNIN claymation feature film, aryM and Max by COMPOSER AND PIANIST In the works that we present, Tamara often Elena is currently writing for Australian Oscar-winning director Adam Elliot, and was plays what I would call the outline of my World Orchestra, The Flinders Quartet and TAMARA-ANNA CISLOWSKA also the theme for Late Night Live on ABC PIANIST written score or sketches whilst leaving me the Australian Chamber Orchestra, and her Radio National for many years plenty of room to elaborate or create further. music is published exclusively by Boosey & (now, Eliza’s Aria). The piece can take an entirely different Hawkes / Bote und Bock. turn by the end of the performance! It is Elena Kats-Chernin was featured in Creative In addition to her work as a composer, this freshness and licence of creativity that Minds, a 6-part TV portrait documentary Kats-Chernin is an accomplished pianist excites me about these concerts, and many series by Robin Hughes. Her 10-hour with recent live performance engagements times a new piece has been born out of what adaptation of Monteverdi's opera trilogy at including for Sydney Opera House’s All About happens on the stage.” the Komische Oper Berlin, directed by Barrie Women Festival in 2015 (broadcast by ABC – Elena Kats-Chernin Kosky, was broadcast live on the 3SAT TV Classic FM for International Women’s Day), channel across Europe in 2012. BIOGRAPHIES Born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, Elena Kats- Australian Festival of Chamber Music in Chernin studied music in Moscow, Sydney In 2015 Elena collaborated with the Townsville (QLD), Canberra International and Hanover. Shobana Jeyasingh Dance Company and Music Festival and Recitals Australia ELENA the Smith Quartet on Material Men, which (Adelaide). In 2016, concerts include She has created works across nearly every premiered at the Southbank Centre in Melbourne Recital Centre, The Concourse KATS- genre, from rags to ballet and operas, London. A second collaboration, The Three and Riverside Theatres Parramatta (Sydney), and from intimate compositions for piano, CHERNIN Dancers, based on Picasso's eponymous Music by the Sea (Brisbane), and regional string trio and chamber ensembles to Composer and Pianist painting and choreographed by Didy centres such as Geelong and Kangaroo robotic instruments, and full-scale choir Veldman for Rambert Dance Company, Valley’s Arts in the Valley Festival with her “Tamara and I like to play with material. We like and symphony orchestra, from the world’s premiered at Sadler's Wells. long-time collaborator, ARIA award-winning to experiment. Perhaps there lies the essence leading orchestras, opera, ballet and Australian pianist Tamara-Anna Cislowska. of what we do together in our group and why theatre companies and festivals. Her music The same year, Elena's children's opera this form of music comes so naturally to us. featured at the opening ceremonies of the Schneewittchen und die 77 Zwege (Snow This year heralds ABC Classics’ highly Being a composer since I was a very little girl, 2000 Sydney Olympic Games and the 2003 White and the 77 Dwarves) was premiered anticipated release of Butterflying, a double I have always improvised at the piano. I played Rugby World Cup. She has received many to wide acclaim at the renowned Komische disc recording of Elena Kats-Chernin’s the piano. I played WITH the piano. Every single prestigious prizes for her music (such as Oper Berlin, along with the broadcast of her music for piano with solo performances by day of my life. It is simply what I do. When I am ‘Best Original Score’ and ‘Best Composition’) widely-praised episodic opera, The Divorce, Cislowska and unique ‘four hands’ renditions not doing it, I think about when I will do it next. from the Helpmann Awards, Limelight, on-screen and online by ABC. With libretto by of the spectrum of Kats-Chernin’s work, by It is my best friend and my great love. Sounds Australia, Sydney Theatre Awards Joanna Murray-Smith, this pioneering work both pianist and composer. and a Sidney Myer Performing Arts Award was commissioned by Opera Australia and Tamara loves to play as well and so, since we Find out more about Elena at (2013). produced by ABC TV and Princess Pictures, met in 1995, we have often played together. boosey.com/katschernin featuring artists including Kate Miller-Heidke, It is only in the last few years that we have Companies setting ballets to her scores Lisa McCune, Marina Prior and Meow Meow. decided to perform in public (or rather, Tamara include Nederlands Dans Theater, Munich convinced me that we should!). We think alike Ballet Theater, San Francisco Ballet and the For the centenary of Gallipoli, Kats- and that makes it easy for us to fit together. Stuttgart Ballet. The extraordinary reach of Chernin’s five movement workMeeting Tamara has always had a great understanding Kats-Chernin’s music spans the worlds of the Sun was commissioned by the Kokoda of my music and so what could be very film and television also:Eliza’s Aria - from Memorial Track Walkway and performed complicated becomes very easy. I don't have her score for Meryl Tankard's ballet Wild by the Royal Australian Navy Band and the to say in words how the music should be, and Swans, commissioned by the Australian Sydney Childrens' Choir. Her movement that is a great relief because notes are really In all my years of collaboration with great As a recording artist, Tamara has recorded for TAMARA- artists, ensembles and performers, none has Chandos, Naxos, ABC Classics, Tall Poppies, PROGRAM brought me more joy and excitement than Artworks and MDG (Dabringhaus und Grimm) ANNA this partnership. Ensemble work is about received three ARIA nominations and critical SLICKED BACK TANGO CISLOWSKA synchronising a goal and working as one entity, acclaim, with 7 solo albums featuring in the BUTTERFLYING and in this duo we have a group that is both classical charts, including her 2014 release, Pianist LULLABY FOR NICK uplifting and challenging at the same time, full Peter Sculthorpe: Complete Works for Solo “Riding shotgun with one of our greatest ever of fun and meaning, virtuosity, intelligence and Piano (ABC Classics) reaching No.1 in the ARIA FIRST DANCE composers is a powerful experience! To sit next Classical and Limelight charts and ‘Editor’s real music-making.” RUSSIAN RAG to Elena is to enter a force-field of the highest – Tamara-Anna Cislowska Choice – Instrumental’ in BBC Music Magazine, creativity and musicianship. Being alongside January 2015. Earning 5 star reviews, the RUSSIAN TOCCATA Tamara-Anna Cislowska is one of Australia’s this draws from me inspiration I often didn't landmark recording has been described as most acclaimed and recognised pianists for BLUE SILENCE know was there and I seem to enter into her “Australian piano gold” (BBC Music Magazine), both her solo and chamber performances, world and music as if I had always been a “a profoundly affecting release” (Gramophone), DANCE OF THE PAPER UMBRELLAS part of it. When we use the piano it is as one and winner of the 2015 ARIA award for ‘Best and “an Australian treasure” (news.com.au). CONVERSATION artist and so the parts naturally extend from Classical Album’ for her recording Peter the core of the music itself rather than being in Sculthorpe: Complete Works for Solo Piano Most recent and upcoming engagements ELIZA’S ARIA (ABC Classics). She has performed worldwide include as soloist with the Christchurch two set parts or divided into four hands. When CINEMA we perform, I see a stream of music that runs with repertoire spanning five centuries, and Symphony Orchestra, Auckland Philharmonia through the instrument itself as well as us. won international prizes in London, Italy and Orchestra, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, RAIN PUZZLE Greece, including the Rovere d’Oro. Queensland Symphony Orchestra, and Such is the magic of her thought. REMEMBERING BIALYSTOK Sydney Youth Orchestras, along with solo and The youngest pianist to win ABC Young Elena's works have never been geared to any chamber recitals around Australia including HOMECOMING Performer of the Year at age 14, other awards instrument in particular, that is why her 'pure' for the renowned Musica Viva and Canberra include the David Paul Landa Memorial music is so successful across all types of solo International Music Festivals, Australian Festival Scholarship for pianists, the Freedman and ensemble combinations. It is this core of of Chamber Music, Australian World Orchestra, Fellowship, and in 2012, the APRA-AMCOS Art artistry and material that we work with in our Museum of Old and New Art’s Festival of Music Music Award for Performance of the Year (ACT). concerts. Often we perform a piece written for and Art, ABC Sunday Live and for Sydney Opera orchestra which may have a full score of over 80 Tamara is a regular guest of orchestras and House, Melbourne Recital Centre, and Elder pages. In front of us, performing the same piece, festivals in Europe, America and Australasia, Hall (Adelaide). are a few A4 bits of paper containing sketches. including as soloist with the London In addition to this Butterflying tour, 2016 From this we will reconstruct the work, Elena Philharmonic, the New Zealand Symphony, engagements include as Artist-in-Residence leading the way with me running along behind, and all the Australian symphony orchestras at Darwin Festival, Australian World Orchestra or sometimes trying to anticipate where she with conductors such as Matthias Bamert, in Sydney and Singapore, Musica Viva’s is heading.
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