Ella 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 Theater of Braunschweig, Germany (Director: Ido Ricklin) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwOHn1ZdCYM had its 4th production in Vienna, September 2016 (EnArteOpera festival, Beverley & Rebecca Blanckenship, stage directors). In 2014 Israeli premiere in a Hebrew version (original language: German, Libretto: Yael Ronen) and in 2015 in Fuerth, Germany (director Bruno Berger-Gorski). All production won great success.

"Past Life", (2016) film by Israeli international film director Avi Nesher is inspired by her family story and her character is the main character in the film. Milch-Sheriff has composed original music to this film which was premiered in the Toronto Film festival 2016. http://variety.com/2016/film/reviews/past-life-review-1201852775/

Her composition "Conversation with a Stone", 2014, based on a poem by that name by the Polish Nobel Prize winner poet Wislawa Szymborska (Polish: Rozmowa z kamieniem, German: Gespraech mit einem Stein, Hebrew: שיחה עם אבן) for Soloist, choir and chamber ensemble was performed in a staged performance in Bonn 2015, (Bundeskunsthalle and Opera Bonn), in Theater Esch in Luxembourg, (conductor: Marino Formenti), Cologne Germany and Wroclaw, Poland in 2016. (staged by Bruno Berger-Gorski) The work was commissioned by POLIN Museum in Warsaw for its opening and was performed in a concert version in Tel-Aviv and Warsaw (conductor: Doron Salomon). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fM5eUns8AOM

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. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EX6VzIxf7Ks

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