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Dal Niente Presents Chaya Czernowin Portrait Concert in Chicago

Oct. 31, 2012

Dal Niente Presents Chaya Czernowin Portrait Concert in Chicago

New music audiences in Chicago are fortunate to have several opportunities this month to explore the music of Chaya Czernowin. On November 16, Ensemble Dal Niente presents its highly anticipated Czernowin portrait concert as the second installment of their PROXIMITY portrait series. The concert features four of the composer’s pivotal works, including Afatsim, Winter Songs II, and Sahaf, as well as the world premiere of The Last Leaf for sopranino saxophone. Also on the program are two works selected by Czernowin because of their particular influence on her music: Webern’s Four Pieces for Violin and Piano and Steven Takasugi’s Jargon of Nothingness. The concert takes place at the Nichols Concert Hall at the Music Institute of Chicago.

Czernowin will also be in residence this month at Northwestern University’s Bienen School of Music, in addition to presenting guest lectures at both the University of Chicago and DePaul University. Additionally, students at Tel Aviv University this year have the opportunity to immerse themselves in a semester long course on her music, titled Sound, Body, and Metaphor – The Music of Chaya Czernowin.

The following reflection by Czernowin on her Winter Songs provides a glimpse into her unique and powerful compositional aesthetic:

[Winter Songs] reflects on the aspect of winter which has to do with one being pulled into the cave of one’s interior, into the passivity of long sleep. At the same time, underneath, in the earth, the roots of vitality slowly solidify and start to blindly search for a way between the stones.


For more information on the composer, please visit www.schott-music.com.

To learn more about Ensemble Dal Niente’s portrait event, please visit www.dalniente.com.

Chaya Czernowin
Afatsim (1996)
for bass flute, bass clarinet, oboe, percussion, piano, violin, viola, cello, and double bass
10’

Winter Songs II: Stones (2003)
for bass flute, bass clarinet, bass trombone, tuba, three percussionists, viola, cello, and double bass
16’

Sahaf (2008)
for saxophone, electric guitar, piano, and percussion
7’

The Last Leaf (2012)
for solo sopranino saxophone
12’

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