Ella Milch-Sheriff 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 Orchestra in Leipzig to compose a work for the occasion of 250 to Beethoven was premiered in Leipzig February 2020.
Also commissioned by the Gewandhaus Leipzig to orchestrate for symphony orchestra of Bach’s last fugue from “The Art of Fugue”. This was premiered at the “Bachfest 2019” in Leipzig.
Her last opera “The Banality of Love” commissioned and premiered in Regensburg Germany in 2018 won a huge success.
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, Duesseldorf, Bochum, Braunschweig etc.), 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.
Her Opera “Baruchs Schweigen” (Baruch’s Silence) was commissioned by the Braunschweig Opera in Germany and premiered in 2010. The opera, based on the true story of her family, won a huge success. (Israeli premiere (October 2014, Tel-Aviv , June 2015 Furth, Germany) and Vienna premiere 2016. Her opera “And the Rat Laughed” (2005) based on Israeli author Nava Semel’s book, received extraordinary acclaim from the press and public alike in Israel. The opera toured in Europe and had a new production in Toronto, Canada in 2009.
Eva Nemova
Tema Schneiderman
Carousel of Life
Henriette Bamberg Cambridge
She Dreams of Flowers
Family Picnic Memories