Women Composers - Chaya Czernowin

Chaya Czernowin

Israel, USA | *1957

Bitingly astringent and deeply beautiful, the instrumental music of Chaya Czernowin summons the energies and transformations of nature with a delicacy of sound riven by moments of unexpected suddenness and frequently ferocious intensity. The collection of sensations engendered by her music is complex. But it is perhaps the affect of awe that more distinctively characterizes the composer’s music than any other. Czernowin’s insistence on a music that approaches a freedom of pure motion combines the resources of instrumental scoring in the creation of an affective space that is at once liberated and incredibly vast.

Chaya Czernowin

by Christopher McIntosh

Atara

A lament for orchestra and two amplified voices (S/Bar) (2021) · 37’ Text by Zohar Eitan (hebr.)

The Fabrication of Light

for large ensemble (2020) · 64’

Heart Chamber

An inquiry about love Opera in 4 acts and 8 close-ups (2017–2019) · 90’ Libretto by the composer (engl.)

HIDDEN

for string quartet and electronics (2013– 2014) · 45’

Pnima … ins Innere

Kammeroper in drei Akten für vier Instrumentalsolisten und Streichorchester nach der Novelle „See under: Love“ von David Grossmann (1998–1999) · 70’