Ella Milch-Sheriff

Ella Milch-Sheriff
Born	Haifa, Israel

Ella Milch-Sheriff (Hebrew: אלה מילך-שריף) is an Israeli composer. Born in Haifa, Israel, Milch-Sheriff began her career as a composer at the age of 12. During her military service she composed, performed and interpreted her own songs after which she returned to classical music studying composition under the direction of Professor Tzvi Avni and graduating in composition from the Rubin Academy of Music at Tel Aviv University.

Milch-Sheriff has composed operas, chamber, orchestral and vocal music as well as popular music and solo works.

Her chamber opera "Baruchs Schweigen", 2010 (Baruch's Silence) (Hebrew: שתיקתו של ברוך) commissioned and premiered by the State theatre of Braunschweig, Germany (Director: Ido Ricklin) had in 2014 its Israeli premiere in a Hebrew version (original language: German, Libretto: Yael Ronen) and in 2015 a new production in Fuerth, Germany with director Bruno Berger-Gorski. All production won great success. Next premiere: 7.9.2016, Vienna, EntarteOper.

Her composition "Conversation with a Stone", 2014, based on a poem by that name by the Polish Nobel Proze winner poet Wislawa Szymborska (Polish: Rozmowa z kamieniem, German: gespraech mit einem Stein, Hebrew: שיחה עם אבן) for Soloist, choir and chamber ensemble was recently performed in a staged performance in Bonn, Bundeskunsthalle and Opera Bonn, November 2015 and in Theater Esch in Luxembourg in January 2016.Both performances staged by Bruno Berger-Gorski and conducted by Marino Formenti. The work was commissioned by POLIN Museum in Warsaw for its opening and was performed in a concertante version in Tel-Aviv in November 2014 and in February 2016 both conducted by Doron Salomon.

Her piece "Halbtener" (Halftones, Hebrew: חצאי טונים) for singer and orchestra based on poems of the Yiddish poet Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman was premiered in Israel in January 2016 sung by Louisa Lyne and conducted by Omer M. Wellber.

Her piece, "Night's End Anthem" based on Roy Arad's poem for Soloists, Chorus and Symphony orchestra was commissioned and premiered by the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra under Maestro Zubin Mehta in July 2009 at the season's final concert series.

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