The CD "The Route of Compassion" is released and can be purchased on CD Baby. Click here to learn More>>
It was recorded live at Alla Elana Cohen's landmark concert on the 12th of February 2009, in the Caldewood Pavilion.
Her disc, "Dedications" has also been released.
Three more CDs are fully mastered and ready for release:
1. CD "Jupiter Duo", that contains works for Cello and Piano, for Cello
solo and for Piano solo, and was recorded at Jordan Hall of New England
Conservatory, Sebastian Baverstam, Cello, Alla Cohen, Piano.
2. "The Day of Atonement"
3. "The Road, that Chooses Us" - these both CDs are compilations of the
recordings, that were done at various concerts of Alla Elana Cohen's music
at New England Conservatory, they include works for chamber orchestra, big
and small chamber ensembles and pieces for solo instruments.
"It was a superb concert. Alla, you speak for all humanity! I remember the wonderful high treble register of the cello and piano duet with Sebastian Baverstam, then, the marimba and vibraphone duet, the brevity and the spice of the harmony; and then a wonderful string quartet about which I am still thinking; and I loved the piano solos and the conclusion of the concert: The Inner Temple, Sveti-tshoveli. My ears are still feasting on the concerts that you and Gunther Schuller did this week."
-- Ran Blake's impressions of the 02/12/09 concert at
Stanford Calderwood Pavilion
"
It was so wonderful being in the Keller Room (NEC) last night for Alla
Cohen's concert. Her music was glorious, cinematic, her spices, her rhythm,
her harmonies, her ensemble - what a pleasure for the listener!"
-- Ran Blake, internationally acclaimed pianist and composer, who has performed throughout the US and Europe, McArthur Foundation Award (Genius' Grant) recipient, founder and for many years chair of Contemporary Improvisation Department of NEC
"The relentless intensity of Alla Cohen's music, its characteristic texture and powerful urgency, reveal a composer whose music emerges from the deepest sourses of passion and engagement. Her expressive dynamic is matched by her technical mastery and by her high-minded aesthetic. There is no compromise here. This is music, that simply must be."
-- Yehudi Wyner, internationally acclaimed composer and pianist, Pulitzer Prize in Music winner (2006),for 14 years professor and head of Composition Department at Yale University,professor of Cornell, Harvard and Brandeis Universities.
Welcome to the website of Alla Elana Cohen, a distinguished composer, pianist, teacher, music theorist and author. Her creative work is inspired by the Divine, the main contents and purpose of her music and piano play is to sing Glory to Almighty, and the motto of her life is: "To live in God, for God and with God".
Alla Elana Cohen considers all her musical compositions a gigantic cycle of prayers; in her opinion, music-making is the most natural and powerful form of prayer. She receives her music directly from the Source, and considers herself as a "God's Flute" - a humble tool, through which Almighty sends people his message of Love, Light, Mercy, Compassion, Peace, Goodness and Beauty.
“The relentless intensity of Alla Cohen's music, its characteristic texture and powerful urgency, reveal a composer whose music emerges from the deepest sources of passion and engagement. Her expressive dynamic is matched by her technical mastery and by her high-minded aesthetic. There is no compromise here. This is music that simply must be.”
--Yehudi Wyner
- The concert of Alla Elana Cohen's music, sponsored by Israeli Consulate, and featuring Israeli musicians (among them internationally acclaimed Ariel String Quartet), playing Alla Elana Cohen's music, with herself at the piano,
will be on the 25th of February 2010, at Goethe Institute, Boston, MA. In
the program there will be several chamber ensembles, including one of her
String Quartets and a new String Quintet, new solo Piano and solo Cello
Pieces. More information will follow. - Alla was recently featured in a Boston Globe video special
- Ms. Cohen was also featured by WGHB. "The TV host, Jared Bowen, remarked that WGBH received many highly positive responses to his segment on Alla Cohen--a lot of good feedback, in which people praised both the music and Alla's sincerity and told the station how touched they were with it."
- " Composer Alla Cohen is a pianist and music teacher whose deeply spiritual works are reaching a broader audience," writes the Boston Globe.
Read the full Boston Globe article about Alla Cohen. - "...sophisticated harmonies and rhythms... blazed forth with utter clarity...'The Music of Alla Cohen' brings this intriguing and worthwhile composer before the public eye in a way that hopefully will lead to more concerts outside academia. Read the full Edge Boston review
- "Alla Elana Cohen may be the best classical musician you’ve never heard of," writes The Boston Phoenix in their recent coverage. Read more about Alla and review the Editors Pick concert coverage.
- "Rhythm Divine", a feature in Bay Windows is currently available and chronicles the life and work of Alla.
- "Pianist/composer Alla Cohen Scales New Heights" is published online at Boston Herald.com.
- Alla Elana Cohen's CD "Jupiter Duo" is being recorded at NEC, at Jordan Hall. It will contain five compositions for Cello and Piano, and solo Piano Pieces. Cello part is played by Sebastian Baverstam, Alla Elana Cohen plays the piano.
Alla Cohen's CD "Dedications" is now released. It contains two of her String Quartets,Trio for Violin, Cello and Piano, compositions for Cello and Piano, for Violin and Piano and for solo Cello.
Alla Elana Cohen received her education in Moscow, Russia, graduating from Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory with the highest honors of distinction.
She lives in Boston, MA, and is on the faculty at Berklee College of Music, and the New England Conservatory, where she teaches composition, harmony, counterpoint and ear-training by her own method. She teaches composition, ear-training and piano also at her private studio.
As a composer, she works in all the genres of orchestral, chamber and operatic music(look at the list of her recent compositions). Her compositions have been performed with much success throughout the USA. She has been recognized as a composer by ASCAP, being annually a recipient of ASCAPLUS Awards, and has received commissions from the Music Teachers National Association(USA).
Many composition students of Professor Cohen have been prize-winners of numerous prestigious state, national and international Composers' Competitions, including Queen Elisabeth Composers' Competition in Brussels, Belgium; Composers' Competition in Haifa, Israel; Lepo Sumera Competition in Tallin, Estonia; Robert Helps Prize; Beethoven Club Competition; ASCAP Morton Gould Award Competition; International Young Artists Competition in Connecticut; Pikes Peak National Young Composers Competition; New York Art Ensemble National Competition; National Level of MTNA Competition(all-USA), etc. Alla Elana Cohen has been awarded, as a teacher, by ASCAP with Award for "inspiring, educating and mentoring young musicians to become composers of tomorrow", as well as being the recipient of numerous Certificates of Recognition and Awards as a teacher of MTNA Young Composers' Competition National Level winners. She was awarded with Ted Pease Excellence in Teaching Award by Berklee College of Music.
Alla Elana Cohen is the author of the book on ear-training "Perfect Pitch for You", that was published in 2007 by Len Rhodes Music Publishing, ASCAP. She is also the author of the books, dedicated to various aspects of harmony: " The Art of Modulation", "In the Vertical Realm". Besides that, she is also an author of numerous poems both in Russian and in English.
The CD of Alla Elana Cohen - "Dedications", that will contain two of her String Quartets, compositions for Cello and Piano, for Violin and Piano, for solo Cello, for Trio: Violin, Cello and Piano, has been released. Her disc, "The Route of Compassion" is currently available for purchase at CD Baby. Click here to learn more>>