Read the recent review of Alla Elana Cohen's CD "The Path of Memories" by Colin Clarke for Fanfare Magazine. Read the article here

Alla Elana Cohen's new set of two CDs "Quaestiones et Responsa" was released on the 23rd of August 2019 by PARMA Recordings LLC, this set includes the latest compositions by Alla Elana Cohen for chamber orchestra and chamber ensembles. Learn More

Alla Elana Cohen's CD "Jupiter Duo" was re-released by PARMA Recordings on the 12th of January 2018 Learn More

Alla Elana Cohen's new CD "Red Lilies of Bells, Golden Lilies of Bells, White Lilies of Bells" was released by PARMA Recording LLC, under Ravello label, on the 21st of April 2017. Learn More

Alla Elana Cohen’s new CD "Hoffmanniana" was released in May, 2014.

Alla Elana Cohen's new CD "praise Him with harp and lyre, praise Him with strings and pipes" was released in May 2012.

"The Day of Atomenent" and "The Road That Chooses Us" were both released in February 2010. Click here to learn More>>


The CD "The Route of Compassion" is available on CD Baby. Click here to learn More>>

Alla Cohen's CD "Dedications" was released in 2008. 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.

"I have met in America...a composer, Alla Elana Cohen. I listened to her music. I spoke with her, and I understood that before me is a regular genius.."
-- Mikhail Kazinik, May 21, 2013

"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

• Alla Elana Cohen's new CD "The Path of Memories" will be released by Centaur Records, Inc., on the 5th of January, 2024. It contains works for chamber orchestra, chamber ensembles and solo piano. All compositions are recordings from the concerts.
• Read the recent interview/review of Alla Elana Cohen's CD "The Path of Memories" by David DeBoor Canfield for Fanfare Magazine. Read the article here
• Read the recent interview/review of Alla Elana Cohen's CD "The Path of Memories" by Marc Medwin for Fanfare Magazine. Read the article here
• Read the recent review of Alla Elana Cohen's CD "Quaestiones et Responsa" by David DeBoor Canfield for Fanfare Magazine. Read the article here
• Read the recent review of Alla Elana Cohen's CD "Quaestiones et Responsa" by Colin Clarke for Fanfare Magazine. Read the article here
• Read the recent review of Alla Elana Cohen's CD "Quaestiones et Responsa" by Henry Fogel for Fanfare Magazine. Read the article here
• Read the recent review of Alla Elana Cohen's CD "Quaestiones et Responsa" by Marc Medwin for Fanfare Magazine. Read the article here
• Read the recent review of Alla Elana Cohen's CD "Quaestiones et Responsa" by Huntley Dent for Fanfare Magazine. Read the article here
• Read the recent review of Alla Elana Cohen's CD "Quaestiones et Responsa" by Take Effect. Read the article here
• Read the recent review of Alla Elana Cohen's CD "Quaestiones et Responsa" by Cinemusical. Read the article here
• Read the recent interview with Alla Elana Cohen and David DeBoor Canfield for Fanfare Magazine. Read the article here
• Recent Airplay for "Quaestiones et Responsa" includes broadcasts on Radio Horizon 93.9FM, WRUV FM Burlington, 101.5 UMFM, KMUD Garberville Redwood Community Radio, Only Strings, and The Daffodil Perspective. See Details
  
• Read the recent review of Alla Elana Cohen's CD "Jupiter Duo" and interview by David Canfield for Fanfare Magazine. Read the article here
• Read the recent review of Alla Elana Cohen's CD "Jupiter Duo" by Marc Medwin for Fanfare Magazine. Read the article here
• Read the recent review of Alla Elana Cohen's CD "Jupiter Duo" by Huntley Dent for Fanfare Magazine. Read the article here
• Read the recent review of Alla Elana Cohen's CD "Jupiter Duo" by Colin Clarke for Fanfare Magazine. Read the article here
• Read the recent review of Alla Elana Cohen's CD "Jupiter Duo" in GAPPLEGATE CLASSICAL. Read the article here
  
• Read the recent review of Alla Elana Cohen's CD "Jupiter Duo" by Cinemusical. Read the article here
  
• Recent radio broadcasts of "Jupiter Duo" include: ONLY STRINGS Radio on December 13, 2017 (Book of Prayers, vol. 1 series II: movement III.); December 20, 2017 ( Book of Prayers, vol. 2 series IV: movement III); Jan 31, 2018 (Querying the Silence I, II); as well as on WRUV and KNTU with Host Lloyd Sitkoff - on 01-09-2018 featuring Querying the Silence: vol. 1 series 2: mvt. II. WRUV Radio and KALX Radio have also broadcast the "Jupiter Duo" CD.
• Recent Airplay for “Red Lilies of Bells!” includes: Hildegard to Hildegard on 3/8/17 (Inner Temple Brachot for String Quartet Movements I, II, III); 3/10/17 (Triptych for Chamber Orchestra Homage to Jean Cocteau and Jean Marais I, II, II).
• "Kathodik" recently reviewed Alla Elana Cohen's new CD "Red Lilies of Bells, Golden Lilies of Bells, White Lilies of Bells”. The review in Italian and English is now available.
• Radio Indonesia has broadcast Cohen's "Querying the Silence" for cello and piano recently.
• "Fanfare" recently published an interview and reviews of Alla Elana Cohen's new CD "Red Lilies of Bells, Golden Lilies of Bells, White Lilies of Bells”. The interview and review by David Deboor Canfield are available; the review by Colin Clarke is available; and the review by Huntley Dent is available
• Learn more about RED LILIES OF BELLS, GOLDEN LILIES OF BELLS, WHITE LILIES OF BELLS on Ravello Records with information about the album and other Ravello April releases; an “Inside Story” interview with Alla Elana Cohen; or visit reseller pages at: Amazon; iTunes or Spotify.
• On the 30th of November 2016, at Futura Productions, Roslindale MA, there was open recording of Alla Elana Cohen's new compositions.
• Recent radio broadcasts include: "Red Lilies of Bells, Golden Lilies of Bells, White Lilies of Bells - on WSUM Only Strings ("Hoffmanniana" series 3 for solo cello); on WRUM FM ("Inner Temple" volume I series 11 "Shabbat Nigunim"); on Discstation “Inner Temple” volume 1 series 12 “Brachot” (“Blessings”) for Chamber Orchestra; on Radio Horizon 93.9FM "Red, Golden, White Lilies of Bells", Triptych for Chamber Orchestra, "Inner Temple" volume 1 series 12.
• Mikhail Kazinik speaks on Alla Cohen during his radio program on Unite4:Good Russian-American radio on the 3rd of October 2015. Kazinik comments, "...traveling around the world I meet people who make life worth living, who represent civilization and connection of Times... Among the most remarkable people I have ever met is a genius Alla Elana Cohen, American composer. The meeting with her struck me, because it resurrected in me the feeling of connection with Eternity–the​ ​same feeling I​ ​have​ ​listening to music by Bach, or reading Goethe's poetry... " Hear the program
• Mikhail Kazinik speaks on Alla Cohen during his interview on BFI Radio on the 15th of November 2013. Kazinik comments, "I am sure, that in 50, or 35, or 40 years all those who love the music of Mozart and Beethoven will add to these names the name of Alla Cohen". See the interview
• Mikhail Kazinik speaks on Alla Cohen during his interview with Latvian T.V. program, May 21, 2013. Kazinik comments, "I listened to her music, I spoke with her, and I understood that before me is a regular genius."
• Here is the link to the radio program on Alla Elana Cohen's music, broadcast on the 17th and 20th of July, 2013, in Moscow, in Russia State Radio and TV Center of Musical Programs, on radio station Orpheus, author of the program - Mikhail Kazinik.
  
  "You ask me, if there is now classical mentality in music, and composers, who would talk to us in eternal language. I will tell you, that I would not find a better composer than Alla Elana Cohen. This is a completely unique voice in music - this is unbelievably deep."
  
  On the 17th and 20th of July, 2013 the radio station Orpheus in Moscow, Russia, broadcast a cycle of programs on Alla Cohen's music. The author of programs is Mikhail Kazinik. Mikhail Kazinik's programs have the highest ratings among all the programs of Orpheus, and Orpheus has the highest rating among the radio stations, that broadcast classical music in Russia.
  
  Mikhail Kazinik, world-renowned musician - violinist, musicologist, teacher, writer, philosopher, author of numerous musical radio and TV programs in Russia, Australia and Sweden (radio stations Orpheus, Rain and Silver Rain, SBS, AXESS TV etc.), Leading Expert and Curator of Nobel Prize Concerts (Sweden), author of books "Mysteries of Genius" I and "Mysteries of Genius" II, author (together with I. Shadhan) of 64 films "In the Free Flight or Ad Libitum", dedicated to the great composers and interesting phenomena of culture, author of numerous books and articles, dedicated to the perception of music.
  
  Read the essay on Alla Cohen's music, written by Mikhail Kazinik, on the press page.
  
  
• On Wednesday, June 5, 2013 - 7:30 PM - Old South Church, Copely Square, Boston - New Works in Concert by Composer Alla Cohen was presented. The concert featured New Opera Buffa Three Young Women and a Piece of Lace and compositions for Chamber Orchestra and Chamber Ensembles.
• In February, Alla Elana Cohen's one-act opera-buffa "The Cunning Housekeeper" won Director's Choice Award at International Composers' Competition, organized by Boston Metro Opera. This competition received 400 entries from 70 countries. "The Cunning Housekeeper" is queued to be performed during regular Boston Metro Opera season.
• Arts Fuse writes, "On the new CD, Cohen’s music is by turns austere and lush, reverent and brash, warm and cool." Read the full review>>
• The recent concert of Alla Elana Cohen: "An Evening of Opera-Buffa and Instrumental Ensembles" was warmly received. Susan Miron of The Boston Musical Intelligencer writes "Evidence abounded — as if the enthusiastic audience needed proof — at Boston’s Old South Church on June 7 that Alla Elana Cohen is a musical force to be reckoned with...I am in awe. The audience gave her a standing ovation. She earned every note of it." Read the full review here>>
• The National Academy of Music honored Alla Elana Cohen with the title "Honorary Fellow of the National Academy of Music" - the highest, the most senior title and degree of honorary membership, which is conferred only upon musicians of eminence, distinction and very high creative achievements. This Honorary Fellowship gives Alla Elana Cohen the right to use post nominal letters HonFNAM after her name. The National Academy of Music is based in Colorado, USA, and has its International Office in Thessaloniki, Greece.
• Alla Elana Cohen won the International Prize for Excellence in Composition, awarded by National Academy Of Music in Greece, in conjunction with Municipal Conservatories in Neapolis and Sykies, Greece.
• Alla Elana Cohen's recent concert, sponsored by Israeli Consulate at Goethe Institute, Boston, MA, received press coverage throughout the area. Read Recent Press>>
• 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" was recorded at NEC, at Jordan Hall. It contains five compositions for Cello and Piano, and solo Piano Pieces. Cello part is played by Sebastian Baverstam, Alla Elana Cohen plays the piano.

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