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Chaya Czernowin
12+ albums
contemporary classicalisraelicomposerAvant-GardeClassical
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Chaya Czernowin is an Israeli composer. She was born in Haifa, 1957, and raised in Israel. Through her studies with Abel Ehrlich, Brian Ferneyhough and Dieter Schnebel, and various scholarships and prizes, Czernowin has been able to focus intently on refining her unique musical language since the age of twenty-five, living in such diverse regions as Germany, Japan, the United States and Austria. In 2000 her Opera Pnima...ins innere, based on David Grossman’s short story "Momik", was premiered at the Munich Biennale and won her over 70 positive reviews in European newspapers. A non-linear experience — sonically and emotionally intense in its non-operatic sparseness — Pnima deals with the question of the impossibility of communicating an unimaginably traumatic experience, in this case that of the Jewish holocaust. Pnima was chosen "Best Première of the Year" by Opernwelt and won the Bavarian Theatre Award. Among her recent awards are the 2003 Award of the Siemens Music Foundation and the 2004 Award of the Rockefeller Foundation for two portrait concerts in New York. Czernowin taught composition at the Yoshiro Irino Institute, JML, Tokyo, Japan, at the Darmstadt Summer Courses (where she won the Kranichstein Music Award 1992) from 1990 until 1998, and led numerous master classes. From 1997 to 2006, she has been professor of composition at the University of California, San Diego. Since 2003 she has been directing the biennial International Summer Academy for Young Composers a
top songs
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Afatsim
2042Ina
1713String Quartet
1684Die Kreuzung
1025Dam Sheon Hachol
1016Ayre "Towed Through Plumes, Thicket, Asphalt, Sawdust and Hazardous Air I Shall Not Forget the Sound Of"
917Sahaf for four instrumentalists
568The Fabrication of Light
499Anea Crystal: I. Seed I
4810Wintersong V "Forgotten Light"
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