Chaya Czernowin

Chaya Czernowin (born December 7, 1957 in Haifa, Israel) is an Israeli composer, ^[1] and Walter Bigelow Rosen Professor of Music at Harvard University.^[2][3] She is the lead composer at the Schloß Solitude Sommerakademie, a biannual international academy of composers and resident musicians at the landmark Schloß Solitude, in Stuttgart, Germany.^[4] She is a 2011 Guggenheim Fellow.^[5]

Education and early career

Czernowin studied at the Rubin Academy of music at Tel-Aviv University, Bard College, and the University of California, San Diego. Czernowin spent several years after her formal studies on residencies and fellowships in Japan, Europe, and the United States.^[6]

She was awarded the Ernst von Siemens Music Composers' Prize in 2003. Between 2006-2009 she was Professor of Composition at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna.

Early works

• Dam Sheom Hachol

Operas

• "opera without words," PNIMA...ins innere. (2000), premiered at the Munich Biennale
• A companion to Mozart's fragment, Adama/Zäide (2006) (interview [1] in German)

Recent works

• Winter Songs, Maim Zarim, Main Gnuvim

Literature

• Gur, Golan. Czernowin, Chaya. In: Bayerisches Musiker-Lexikon Online..

References

1. ^ Chaya Czernowin, Schott Music
2. ^ http://www.music.fas.harvard.edu/faculty/cczernowin.html
3. ^ http://www.faculty.harvard.edu/scholarship-and-research/faculty-profiles/chaya-czernowin-walter-bigelow-rosen-professor-music
4. ^ http://www.akademie-solitude.de/810_sac_principles.php?lang_choose=1&lastpage=810_sac_principles.php&cur=0&idnum=0&dbsearch=&linkurl=
5. ^ http://www.gf.org/fellows/17107-chaya-czernowin
6. ^ http://www.internationales-musikinstitut.de/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=170%3Achaya-czernowin&catid=42&lang=en

External links

• Art of the States: Chaya Czernowin two works by the composer
• "Separate Universes Coexisting: Chaya Czernowin’s Musical Artistry," article in The Forward Newspaper published October 20, 2010.
• Either/Or: Chaya Czernowin - Die Kreuzung

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