Chaya Czernowin

In this piece, the voice and the breath play an equal role in executing the musical text, as the breath is (at times) independent from the voice and equal to it in an almost contrapuntal relationship....

In this piece, the voice and the breath play an equal role in executing the musical text, as the breath is (at times) independent from the voice and equal to it in an almost contrapuntal relationship....

Das kurze Konzertstück ist auf ein Motto von Gaston Bachelard komponiert: "obscure Vegetation: black flowers bloom in matter's darkness".

What dance is this? Is it the dance coming from afar, its remnants too entangled to decipher, one which was brought by a gust of wind, as you stand alone and listen to a far away party in the night? O...

The original version for violin dates from 1981, thus being one of the early works by the Israeli composer who teaches at Harvard University. About 35 years later, Chaya Czernowin wrote the arrangemen...

The original version for violin dates from 1981, thus being one of the early works by the Israeli composer who teaches at Harvard University. About 35 years later, in 2015, Chaya Czernowin arranged th...

Many years ago I saw a sculpture of Anish Kapoor: in this sculpture there were two huge halved orbs hanging from two sides of the room. The halved orbs were dark purple blue, which was so dark that th...

The idea of a compound instrument can be traced back to my works for recorded and live soloists from around 1988. In Afatsim, The Crossroads and the String Quartet, disparate instruments become a sing...

'Sahaf' is part of the cycle 'Shifting Gravity' in which the Israeli composer, known worldwide for her Mozart adaptation Zaïde/Adama, explores the laws of physics and their physical realization in a p...

The five short miniatures for two singers and five instruments were commissioned by the Miller Theatre at Columbia University in New York in 2014. The performers of the world premiere were the bariton...

Knights of the strange is a work of music poetry, where a few words highlight the speculative/poetic connections between dreams, reality and reflection. The duo version is like an independent plant wh...

Anea is an invented name for a music-crystal modelled on an ionic crystal. It is a piece written in three independent and individual movements which can be played separately or together.Seed I and See...

In this work, the quartet becomes a single composite instrument. This instrument cannot play individual sounds but rather composite gestures, of which the initial impulse linked to the production of a...

Chaya Czernowin wrote this composition for violin solo as early as 1981, it is thus one of her early works. The world premiere took place in Berlin in 1983, shortly after the Israeli composer had come...

This challenging slow duet for two bass clarinets in Bb combines expressive melodic writing, abrupt meter changes, and extreme dynamics that give this short composition an agitated and volatile charac...

What dance is this? Is it the dance coming from afar, its remnants too entangled to decipher, one which was brought by a gust of wind, as you stand alone and listen to a far away party in the night? O...

'Sahaf' is part of the cycle 'Shifting Gravity' in which the Israeli composer, known worldwide for her Mozart adaptation Zaïde/Adama, explores the laws of physics and their physical realization in a p...

The Quiet originated from watching a snowstorm from my window at night as the flakes danced in the weak light of the lamp outside. The desire to make the storm audible was the starting point for a jou...