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Profile -Rita Williams talks with composer Elena Kats-Chernin, equally at home writing for the concert hall and for the theatre.

  • by Rita Williams
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Rita Williams talks with composer Elena Kats-Chernin, equally at home writing for the concert hall and for the theatre.

Elena Kats-Chernin's rapport with the piano goes back to her childhood and the day her mother and older sister walked in to find the six-year-old sitting up, playing Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata. She'd never had a lesson. By eight she had written her first composition and soon after was known in Yaroslavl, the university town where they lived in Uzbekistan, as 'the little Mozart'.
Embarrassed by the title then, Kats-Chernin continues to inspire awe. Since choosing to make music her career, rather than become a professional figure skater, Kats-Chernin has become that rare thing: a full-time composer.


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