Haifa, 1954
Israeli composer
Works for brass ensemble
- Divertimento (1984) for brass quintet
Biography
Ella Milch-Sheriff, winner of Lifetime achievment award 2022 by the Israel’s composers and authors institue, is one of Israel’s most performed composers in recent years. Born in Haifa, Israel, she began her career as a composer at the young age of 12, graduating in composition from the Academy of Music at Tel Aviv University.
Her work “The eternal stranger” commissioned by the Gewandhaus Orchstra in Leipzig for the occassion of 250 to Beethoven was premiered in Leipzig February 2020 and since then in Teatro Massimo in Palermo, Elbphilhamonie in Hamburg, BBC Philharmonic, Israel Philharmonic , the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Tonhalle Orchester Zurich, and later on in Stockholm Radio Symhpony and Vienna Symphony.
Also commissioned by the Gewandhaus Leipzig the orchestration of Bach’s last fugue from “The Art of Fugue”. This was premiered at the “Bachfest 2019” in Leipzig.
Ella composes operas, chamber, orchestral and vocal music as well as popular music and solo works. Her music is performed widely through Israel, (Israel Philharmonic/ Zubin Mehta and all Israel’s major orchestras and musical ensembles) Germany, (Berlin, Hamburg, Duesseldorf, Bochum, Braunschweig etc.), Austria, Great Britain, other European countries and the US.
She was awarded the prestigious “Israeli Prime-Minister Prize” for her compositional works and the same year, her opera, “And the Rat Laughed” received the Tel-Aviv “Rosenblume Prize” for an outstanding achievement.
from the composer’s website