Chaya Czernowin
Chaya Czernowin was born in Haifa in 1957. She studied at the Rubin Academy in Tel Aviv and Bard College, and took a PhD at UC San Diego (1993) with Roger Reynolds and Brian Ferneyhough. She taught at UC San Diego and the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, and since 2009 has been professor of composition at Harvard. She won the Ernst von Siemens Composer Prize (2003) and a Guggenheim Fellowship (2011). Her operas include Pnima...ins innere (2000), Adama (2004-05) and Infinite Now (2017). Afatsim and Maim are among her chamber works.
Chaya Czernowin was born in Haifa in 1957. She studied at the Rubin Academy in Tel Aviv and Bard College, and took a PhD at UC San Diego (1993) with Roger Reynolds and Brian Ferneyhough. She taught at UC San Diego and the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, and since 2009 has been professor of composition at Harvard. She won the Ernst von Siemens Composer Prize (2003) and a Guggenheim Fellowship (2011). Her operas include Pnima...ins innere (2000), Adama (2004-05) and Infinite Now (2017). Afatsim and Maim are among her chamber works.
