Chaya Czernowin was born and raised in Israel. Since the age of 25, she has
resided in Germany, Japan, and the United States. Various Scholarships and
prizes supported these years, in which Czernowin was able to concentrate on
forming her musical language and thought. Her first solo CD Afatsim which
summorized her chamber work from 88-96 was released by Mode Records New York
(mode 77) in 1999. Her second CD, with recent vocal by Mode was released in
November 2002.
In 2000 her Opera, PNIMA...ins innere was premiered at the Munich Biennale,
to a strong audience and critical acclaim. A non-linear experience, sonically
and emotionally intense in its non-operatic sparseness, PNIMA deals with the
question of the impossibility of communicating an ungraspable traumatic experience,
in this case that of the Jewish holocaust. PNIMA was chosen for the premier
of 2000 by "Opernwelt" and has won the Bayerische Theater Preis 2000.
Chaya Czernowin has taught composition at the Yoshiro Irino Institute, JML,
Tokyo, Japan; the Darmstadt Ferienkurse, (where she won the Krnichsteiner
prize 92) '90-'94 and '98; and in numerous master classes.
Beginning 2003 she will teach a biannual composition Mastercourse at Schloss
Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany. Since 1997 Czernowin is a professor of music
in the University of California, San Diego. Recent and upcoming projects include:
a performance of the piece Maim Zarim, Maim Gnuvim (strange water, stolen
water) for a large orchestra a quintet of soloists and live electronics in
the Donaueschingen festival, 2002; a performance of the piece Shu Hai in an
orchestral setting with the Austrian Radio orchestra and Ute Wassermann in
Wien Modern 2002; Winter Songs, a septet for Ensemble Intercontemporain and
IRCAM technology, Paris, 2003; an opera for the Salzburg Festival 2004, where
there would be a focus on Czernowin' music. Chaya Czernowin is published exclusively
by Schott.
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