PUTNEY-On Friday, May 17, at 5 p.m., Yellow Barn presents music of and conversation with composer Chaya Czernowin.
Performing Czernowin's pieces will be a trio featuring Luke Hsu on violin, Rainer Crosett on cello, and Yehuda Inbar on piano. Following this hour-long program, Yellow Barn Artistic Director Seth Knopp will lead a conversation between Czernowin, the performers, and audience members.
Born and educated in Israel, Czernowin continued her studies abroad in Germany and the United States, and lived in Tokyo and Vienna through several fellowships. Her works have been performed by some of the best orchestras and performers of new music in concert halls and music festivals throughout Europe, Japan, Korea, Australia, the U.S., and Canada.
Czernowin was the first woman to be appointed as a composition professor at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, Austria, and at Harvard University, where she has been the Walter Bigelow Rosen Professor of Music since 2009. She holds positions at several music academies and serves on the board of European Musiktheater Akademie.
She has been composer-in-residence at international festivals and her compositions have received numerous awards, among them the Composer Prize from the Siemans Foundation and a Guggenheim fellowship. Her portrait CD, The Quiet, recorded on the contemporary classical music label, Wergo, gained the Quarterly German Record Critics' Award.
Admission to the concert at "The Big Barn" is free. To reserve seats in advance, call 802-387-6637.
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