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Premiere of the Month: Elena Kats-Chernin on her new double concerto

2023-10-27T08:31:00

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The Sarenka Concerto is in memory of an extraordinary woman

Australian composer Elena Kats-Chernin’s Sarenka Concerto for violin, cello and orchestra honours the life of Sara Weis – nicknamed Sarenka by her family. As a child in Poland, Weis lost her family in the Holocaust. ‘She escaped as a 16-year-old and went into the resistance,’ says Kats-Chernin. Years afterwards Weis moved to Melbourne, where she and her husband set up a successful pantyhose business and raised a family, members of which came to Kats-Chernin to commission the work. Violinist Dale Barltrop and cellist Rachael Tobin will perform alongside the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra…

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