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Chaya Czernowin’s Zohar Iver Premieres at Bern’s "Culturescapes"

Oct. 27, 2011

Chaya Czernowin’s Zohar Iver Premieres at Bern’s "Culturescapes"

The Bern, Switzerland festival CULTURESCAPES, founded in 2003, pays homage to a particular cultural landscape each year with concerts, plays, lectures and exhibitions. Following several years focusing on Eastern European regions, the culture of Israel is explored in 2011. Israeli composer Chaya Czernowin was commissioned for this occasion and the resulting work for ensemble and orchestra, Zohar Iver (blind radiance) premiered on October 20 by Ensemble Nikel and the Bern Symphony Orchestra under Mario Venzago.

The work continues Czernowin’s artistic mission to explore the depths of subconscious, "beauty of inner darkness" and the "intensity of life." About her new nine-part work, the composer writes:

This piece starts with an attempt to create a ‘music of touch.’ Faraway and slowly moving shapes are abstract and hard to define, but at the same time easily felt or touched by listening. They are answered by remnants of human voices: drifting voices as if just carried on the wind from afar, played by the ensemble. The responsory gives way to a series of unpredictable encounters where corporeality and energy merge to open a new state: one of half-human / half-phenomenological unpredictable eruptions.

More on Chaya Czernowin can be found at www.schott-music.com.

View the complete score online here.

Chaya Czernowin
Zohar Iver (2011)
for ensemble and orchestra divided into three groups
ensemble: sax – perc-egtr.pno
group I: 3fl(3.pic.).2ob-2tp-20vn
group II: ca.2cl-2hn.2tbn-8va.8vc
group III: bcl.2bsn.cbsn-2hn.btbn.tba-6db-timp.3perc
16’

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