Chaya Czernowin

Chaya Czernowin (Hebrew: חיה צ'רנובין, Hebrew pronunciation: [ˌχaja t͡ʃɛʁˈnobin]; born December 7, 1957 in Haifa, Israel) is an Israeli composer, and Walter Bigelow Rosen Professor of Music at Harvard University.

She is the lead composer at the Schloß Solitude Sommerakademie, a biannual international academy of composers and resident musicians at the landmark Schloß Solitude, in Stuttgart, Germany. She is a 2011 Guggenheim Fellow.

Czernowin was born and raised in Israel. After her studies in Israel, at the age of 25, she continued her studies in Germany on a DAAD grant, and then to the United States. She was then invited to live in Japan (Asahi Shimbun Fellowship and American NEA grant), Germany (Akademie Schloß Solitude) and in Vienna. Czernowin studied at the Rubin Academy of music at Tel-Aviv University, Bard College, and received her PhD from the University of California, San Diego in 1993. At UCSD, she studied with Brian Ferneyhough and Roger Reynolds.

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

From 1997-2006, she was professor of composition at UCSD, and between 2006-2009 she was professor of composition at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna.

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