Chaya Czernowin
Chaya Czernowin (born December 7, 1957 in Haifa ) is an Israeli composer . Since she was 25, she has lived alternately in Germany, Japan and the USA.
Life
Chaya Czernowin received her artistic training at the Rubin Academy in Tel Aviv and in Berlin with Dieter Schnebel and at the University of California with Brian Ferneyhough . After working scholarships in Tokyo and at IRCAM Paris, she taught a. a. 1993/1994 at the Yoshiro Irino Institute, Tokyo, and from 1990 to 1998 at the Darmstadt Summer Courses . Between 1997 and 2006 she was Professor of Composition at the University of California, San Diego. Since 2003 she has been the director of the “International Summer Academy for Young Composers” at Solitude Palace near Stuttgart. In 2004 she was invited by the European Center for the Arts in Hellerau (director Udo Zimmermann ) as the first “composer-in-residence”. From 2006 to 2009 she was Professor of Composition at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna , after which she became Professor of Composition at Harvard University in Boston.
Her works have been performed at over 25 festivals around the world, including a. the Salzburg Festival .
In 2017 she was accepted as a member of the Berlin Academy of the Arts .
She has already received numerous awards, including:
- 2000: Bavarian Theater Prize for the opera Pnima… ins Innere (performed at the Munich Biennale ); Described by the specialist magazine opernwelt as “Best World Premiere of the Year”.
- 2003: Award from the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation
- 2004: Prize of the Rockefeller Foundation
Works
- Dam Sheon Hachol (1988)
- Amber (1993)
- Afatsim (1996)
- Miniatures (1998)
- Pnima ... inside (1989–1999)
- Liquid Amber (2000)
- Shu Hai (2000-2001)
- Winter Songs I: Pending light (2002–2003)
- Winter Songs II: Stones (2003)
- Winter Songs III: Roots (2003)
- Excavated Dialogues (2003)
- Zaïde / Adama (1779 / 2004-2005)
- Excavated Dialogues (2005)
- Pilgrimages (2007) → First performed in the Festspielhaus Hellerau with the Dresdner Kreuzchor
- Sheva (2008)
- Sahaf (2008), world premiere: May 17th, 2008 in Studio HaTeiva, Tel Aviv, Israel
- “Heart Chamber” (2019), world premiere: November 15, 2019, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Germany; Commissioned by the opera
literature
- Ronit Seter: "Czernowin, Chaya", in: The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians , Volume 6, 2nd edition, Ed. Stanley Sadie, London 2001, pp. 823f.
- Beate Kutschke: "Paradoxe Prismen", compositions by Chaya Czernowin between 1988 and 1996, in: Musiktexte , issue 90, August 2001, pp. 7-12.
- Beate Kutschke: "Identity debate in notes: On the socio-critical dimension in Chaya Czernowins compositions", in: Neue Zeitschrift für Musik , Issue 5, 2002, pp. 50–55.
- About Czernowin performances by the Dresdner Kreuzchor, in: Matthias Herrmann (Hrsg.): Dresdner Kreuzchor and contemporary choral music. World premieres between Richter and Kreile , Marburg 2017, pp. 189–201, 229, 328–329 (Schriften des Dresdner Kreuzchor, vol. 2)
Web links
- Works by Chaya Czernowin in the catalog of the German National Library
- Chaya Czernowin in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)
- Portrait of Chaya Czernowin u. a. with photo gallery, current performances, news about the person, works, discography (Schott Verlag)
- Dossier Chaya Czernowin
Individual evidence
- ^ "Four female authors added" , Börsenblatt , July 7, 2017, accessed on July 7, 2017.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Czernowin, Chaya |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Israeli composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 7th December 1957 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Haifa |