Chiyoko Szlavnics

Chiyoko Szlavnics is a Canadian composer and visual artist, born in Toronto in 1967 and living in Berlin since the late 1990s. She graduated from the Faculty of Music of the University of Toronto in 1989 and studied with James Tenney. Her music uses long sustained tones and slow glissandi, often with sine waves alongside the instruments, and many of her pieces start from her own drawings. Szlavnics has written for or been played by Klangforum Wien, Quatuor Bozzini and Ensemble Musikfabrik, at festivals including MaerzMusik and the Donaueschinger Musiktage.