Elena Davidovna Kats-Chernin (born 4 November 1957) is a Soviet-born Australian composer and pianist, best known for her ballet Wild Swans. Early life and career. Elena Kats-Chernin was born in Tashkent (now the capital of independent Uzbekistan, but then part of the Soviet Union) and is Jewish. She studied at the Yaroslavl Music School and the Gnessin State Musical College in Moscow from age 14, and migrated to Australia in 1975, continuing her studies at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, under Richard Toop (composition) and Gordon Watson (piano).
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Elena Davidovna Kats-Chernin (born 4 November 1957) is a Soviet-born Australian composer and pianist, best known for her ballet Wild Swans. Early life and career. Elena Kats-Chernin was born in Tashkent (now the capital of independent Uzbekistan, but then part of the Soviet Union) and is Jewish. She studied at the Yaroslavl Music School and the Gnessin State Musical College in Moscow from age 14, and migrated to Australia in 1975, continuing her studies at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, under Richard Toop (composition) and Gordon Watson (piano).
