Chaya Czernowin

Chaya Czernowin (

She is the lead composer at the Schloß Solitude Sommerakademie,[4] a biannual international academy of composers and resident musicians at the landmark Schloß Solitude, in Stuttgart, Germany.^[5] She is a 2011

Czernowin spent several years after her formal studies on residencies and fellowships in Japan, Europe, and the United States.^[8] She was awarded the Ernst von Siemens Music Composers' Prize in 2003.

From 1997 to 2006, she was professor of composition at

Musical works

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)^[9]
• "Infinite Now" (2017), opera in six acts, premiered at the Vlaamse Opera in Ghent^[10]
• Heart Chamber, 2019, premiered at the Deutsche Oper Berlin.^[11]

Source:^[12]

Orchestra

• Birds for string orchestra (1984), 11'
• The hour glass bleeds still for string orchestra (1992, rev. 2002)
• Amber for large orchestra (1993), 18'
• Afatsim for mixed ensemble (1996), 10'
• Shu Hai in an orchestral setting for orchestra, female voice, and live electronics (2001), 30'
• Dam Sheon Hachol (the hourglass bleeds still) version for string orchestra (2002), 19'
• Maim (strange water, stolen water), triptych for large orchestra, tubax recorded and a quintet of soloists (oboe, tubax, electric guitar, piano, viola) (2001/2002), 18';
  • I: maim zarim maim gnuvim (strange water stolen water) (2002);
  • II: The memory of water (2006);
  • III: mei mechaa (water of disent) (2005-2006)

Ensemble

• Afatsim for mixed ensemble (1996). Appears twice (see orchestra)
• Winter Songs I: Pending Light for live electronics and seven instruments (2002/2003), 12'
• Winter Songs II: Stones for seven instruments and three percussionists (2003), 12'
• Winter Songs III: Roots for live electronics, seven instruments and three percussionists (2003), 14'
• Excavated Dialogues Fragments for a mixed ensemble of Eastern and Western instruments (2003), 8‘
• Excavated Dialogues Fragments – Second version for a mixed ensemble of modern and Renaissance/Baroque instruments (2003, rev. 2005)
• Anea Crystal for Two String Quartets and an Octet (2008)
• Sheva for seven players, for tpt b trb 2 percussionists pno contra guitar and vcl (2008)

Concerto

• While Liquid Amber for three amplified piccolos (solo) and large orchestra (2000), 18'

Chamber music

• Ina for bass flute and pre-recorded flutes (1989), 12' – ED 9680
• LeArye for violin and 15 pre-recorded violins and violas (1990), 14'
• Dam Sheon Hachol (the hourglass bleeds still) for string sextet (1992), 18' – ED 9663
• A map of a recurrent dream for sho, u, live and pre-recorded Tape (1994), 17'
• Tris for percussion and pre recorded percussion (1993), 13'
• Die Kreuzung for accordion, alt saxsophone and bass (1994), 10' – ED 9684
• String Quartet (1995), 14'
• Drift (Sahaf) for saxophone (baritone and sopranino) or clarinet (Eb clarinet and bass clarinet), E-guitar, piano and percussion (timpano, marimba, 2 plastic triangle liners, bamboo wind chime, ocean drum, ratchet, snare drum) (2008)

Vocal music

• Manoalchadiya for bass flute and two female voices (1988), 13'
• Shu Hai Mitamen Behatalat Kidon (Shu Hai Practices Javalin) for solo female voice and recorded nine voices with live electronics (1996/1997), 30' – ED 9672
• Six Miniatures and a Simultaneous Song for mixed ensemble and a singer (1998), 13'
• Pilgerfahrten for narrator, boy's choir, and instrumental ensemble (2005/2006, rev. 2007)

Recent works

• Winter Songs, Maim Zarim, Main Gnuvim

Discography

Portrait CDs

References

Bibliography

• Gur, Golan. Czernowin, Chaya. In: Bayerisches Musiker-Lexikon Online..
• Seter, Ronit: Czernowin, Chaya. In: The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. vol. 6, 2nd. ed. Stanley Sadie, London 2001, pp. 823f. Also available through Grove Music Online

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 on
  YouTube
  (Crossroads)
• Official website
• In the Mediterranean Mode: Israeli Women Composers - Dr Ronit Seter discusses Israeli women composers (Shulamit Ran, Betty Olivero and Chaya Czernowin). Lecture at the Library of Congress, Washington DC, recorded June 3, 2012. Full transcript also available
• Bibliography on Chaya Czernowin, in Ronit Seter, "Israeli Art Music", on Oxford Bibliographies (accessed 23 March, 2024)