Chaya Czernowin

Czernowin ( born December 7, 1957 in Haifa ) is an Israeli composer. She has lived her 25 years, alternately in Germany, Japan and the United States.

Life

Czernowin received her artistic training at the Rubin Academy in Tel Aviv, and in Berlin with Dieter Schnebel and at the University of California at Brian Ferneyhough. After working grants in Tokyo and at IRCAM Paris, she taught, among other things 1993/1994 at the Yoshiro Irino Institute, Tokyo, and from 1990 to 1998 in the " Darmstadt Summer Courses ." Between 1997 and 2006 she was a professor of composition at the University of California, San Diego. Since 2003 she is head of the " International Summer Academy for Young Composers " in Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart. In 2004 she was the European Centre for the Arts Hellerau (Director: Udo Zimmermann) invited as the first " composer-in -residence ". From 2006 to 2009 she was professor of composition at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, later she performed a professor of composition at Harvard University in Boston.

Her works have been performed at over 25 festivals around the world, including the Salzburg Festival.

She has won numerous awards, including:

• 2000: Bavarian Theatre Prize for the opera " Pnima ... inside " (listed at the Munich Biennale ); of the journal Opernwelt called " Best Premiere of the Year".
• 2003: Prize of the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation
• 2004: Award of the Rockefeller Foundation

Works

• Amber (1993 )
• Afatsim (1996 )
• Miniatures (1998)
• Pnima ... into the interior (1989-1999)
• Liquid Amber (2000)
• Shu Hai (2000-2001)
• Dam Sheon Hachol (2002)
• Winter Songs I: Pending light (2002-2003)
• Winter Songs II: Stones ( 2003)
• Winter Songs III: Roots ( 2003)
• Excavated Dialogues (2003)
• Zaïde / Adama (1779/2004-2005)
• Excavated Dialogues (2005)
• Pilgrimage (2007) → premiered at the Festspielhaus Hellerau with the Dresden Kreuz Choir
• Sheva (2008)
• Sahaf (2008), UA: 17 May 2008 at Studio HaTeiva, Tel Aviv, Israel