Department of Music

The University of Virginia McIntire Department of Music presents a colloquium by Kiki Keren-Huss on Friday, October 7th at 3:30pm in 107 Old Cabell Hall.  This event is free and open to the public.

Very Close, Very Personal – Worlds from sounds

This talk will focus on my creative process and musical examples that demonstrate it. I perceive the world as a polyphonic fabric of autonomous and independent lines and this has clear implications for my work.  I draw on multiple voices, not all of them auditory, using sparse materials and lots of silence structured loosely in a stream of conscience flow.  

Kiki Keren-Huss: Composer and sound artist, lives in Jerusalem. Her compositions and sound installations have been performed in Israel and abroad,  and include four chamber operas. Kiki Keren-Huss has a long- standing interest in music-theater and opera. She works with electronic and electroacoustic music using sound as a way to draw and create an inner environment from everyday sounds, voices, texts etc.  She often works in collaboration with visual artists and dancers.


She is the head of the advanced studies program in experimental music & sound art in the Musrara School for Photography, New Media, New Music and Phototherapy in Jerusalem. She also teaches composition and collaborative projects in the department of New Music. Kiki Keren-Huss is in residence at UVA as a visiting scholar/composer and Schusterman Foundation Fellow.