Composer
Biography:
Chaya Czernowin (December 1957) is a composer of operas, orchestral and chamber music works that have been performed worldwide.
She was composer-in-residence at the Salzburg Festival and the Lucerne Festival. She is Walter Bigelow Rosen Professor of Music at Harvard University and was professor of composition at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (2005–2009) and at the University of California, San Diego (1997–2005).
Czernowin works imaginatively and analytically with metaphors as a means of penetrating a world of sound that is foreign and never self-evident, attempting to give voice to that which is hidden from view within. Major works: the opera Pnima, the large-scale orchestral piece Maim, and HIDDEN for quartet and electronics.
Czernowin's work has been honoured with numerous awards, including the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation's Förderpreis, the Guggenheim Fellowship Award and the Kranichstein Music Prize at the Darmstadt Summer Courses.
Her work has been published by Schott.
Albums:
Donaueschinger Musiktage 2017:
EXPERIMENTALSTUDIO 40 Years Anthology Vol. 2:
