Chaya Czernowin

Chaya Czernowin, born in Israel, lives in United States, Japan and Germany, is a major distinctive voice in new music. Her compositional oeuvre includes operas, orchestral, chamber and vocal music, which have been performed at the most important festivals and opera houses and concert venues worldwide. Characteristic is her focus on metaphors as a means of reaching and analysing a sound world that attains a sonic expression that incorporates the subconscious and which goes beyond style, conventions, or rationality.