chaya czernowin

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Official Channel of Composer Chaya Czernowin Biography: Chaya Czernowin (1957) is a composer of operas, orchestral and chamber works which have been played worldwide. She is Walter Bigelow Rosen Professor of Music at Harvard University and was a Professor for Composition at the University for Music and Performing Arts Vienna Austria and at UCSD. She was composer in residence in Salzburg Festival 2005/6 and in Lucerne Festival 2013. Czernowin works imaginatively and analytically with metaphors as a means of reaching a sound world which is unfamiliar and that is never taken for granted, attempting to give a voice to what is internally hidden from one’s view. Examples of major works are the operas Pnima, Infinite Now and Heart Chamber, the orchestral piece Maim or HIDDEN for String Quartet and Electronics. Her work was awarded with the Composers Prize-Siemens Foundation, Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship and the Kranichsteiner Musikpreis and is a member of Akademie der Künste Berlin.

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