115 Ella Milch-Sheriff Composer Ella Milch-Sheriff, winner of the Lifetime Achievement Award 2022 by the Composers and Authors Institute, 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 musical style blends contemporary Western music with Jewish, Israeli, and Middle Eastern motifs. Her 5th opera "Alma" about Alma Mahler-Werfel, conducted by Omer Meir Wellber, commissioned by the Volksoper Wien, premiered in Vienna, October 26th, 2024, achieved unprecedented success. “The eternal stranger" for actor and orchestra, was commissioned and premiered by the Gewandhaus Orchestra in Leipzig in 2020 with further performance conducted by Omer Meir Wellber, in Teatro Massimo, Palermo (2020), NDR Philharmonic in Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg (2021), BBC Philharmonic in Manchester (2022) Israel Philharmonic (2022), Boston Symphony, Tonhalle Orchester Zurich, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra Stockholm (2023) and Wiener Symphoniker (2023). Ella Milch-Sheriff composes operas, chamber, orchestral, and vocal music as well as popular music and solo works. Her music is performed widely throughout Israel (Israel Philharmonic under 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 USA. In 2005, Ms. Milch-Sheriff was awarded the prestigious Israeli Prime Minister's prize. Her first opera, “And the Rat Laughed” (2005) received the Tel-Aviv Rosenblum prize for an outstanding achievement, receiving productions throughout Europe and Toronto, Canada. Her opera “The Banality of Love” (Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger’s relationship) was commissioned and premiered in Staatstheater Regensburg, Germany, in 2018. Her opera, “Baruchs schweigen” (Baruch’s silence), based on the true story of her family, was commissioned and premiered in Braunschweig, Germany, in 2010, with further productions in Tel-Aviv, Fürth, and Vienna (2016). She composed original music for the film "Past Life" (2016) directed by Avi Nesher. The film is based on her family's story. She won Lys d'Or in 2017 in Montreal for her music. Other recent orchestral compositions include a Clarinet Quartet, premiered in 2022 in Berlin and Jerusalem; An orchestration of Bach's last fugue from "The Art of Fugue" for symphony orchestra, also commissioned by the Gewandhaus Leipzig, premiered in 2019; “Abschied” (Farewell) (2021) for Soprano and Orchestra, based on texts by the German Jewish poet Else Lasker-Schüler commissioned and played in 2021 by the Bochum Symphony; “Noam”, a fantasy for Flute and Orchestra, commissioned and played by NKO in Tel-Aviv in 2019 (Sharon Bezaly, under Christian Lindberg); Jury Members
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