2017  INFINITE NOW was chosen as the premier of the year in the international critics survey of Opernwelt.

2017  European Platform for artistic research in music EPARM Keynote lecture/ interview with Luc Joosten, Antwerp, Belgium. 

2017 chosen as a member of the Akademie der Kunste Berlin, Germany. 

2016   The WERGO CD  Chaya Czernowin: The Quiet  has been awarded the Quarterly German Record Critics’ Award in the Contemporary music Category, Germany Austria, Switzerland. 

2016   Czernowin's work is at the focus of New Perspectives Festival, a yearly event at the Royal College of Music, London, United Kingdom. 

2016    Heidelberger Kunstlerinen Preis, Germany.

2014-15   Paul Fromm Composer-in-Residence at the American Academy in Rome, Italy

2014    featured composer, Manifeste, IRCAM, Paris, France

2014   Howard Hanson Visiting Composer for the 2013-14 season at Eastman School of Music, USA

2013   Lucern Festival, Artist-in-residence, Switzerland.

2013   Helsinki Musica Nova,  featured composer Finland.

2013   Magister Ludi Festival Moscow, featured composer, Russia.

2012   Semester-long course about Czernowin’s work: “The Music of Chaya Czernowin – Sound, Body and Metaphor”, Tel Aviv University Buchmann-Mehta School of Music. (Taught by Prof. Zohar Eitan and Dr. Hila Tamir, 2012/2013.) Israel. 

2011   Guggenheim Fellowship, USA.

2010   Maim chosen as one of the 10 best CDs of modern composition for 2010, The Wire Magazine, UK.

2010   A symposium about Pnima… ins Innere in Stadttheater Stuttgart, Germany.

2008   Stockholm New Music Days, featured composer Sweden.

2008    Hateiva Marathon, Israel (Ensemble Nikel) featured composer, Israel.

2008   Wissenschaftskolleg Berlin, nominated, Germany.

2008   Fromm Foundation Commission, USA.

2007   Artist-in-residence in Basel Stadttheater, Switzerland.

2005-06   Composer-in-residence at the Salzburg Festival Austria.

2004   Hellerau European Center for the Arts, Dresden, Composer-in-residence, Germany.

2004   Rockefeller Foundation grant, NYC, USA.

2004   Featured composer, Ultraschall Berlin, Germany.

2003   Composer’s Prize (Komponisten Foerderpreis) of the Siemens Foundation, Germany.

2001   Composer-in-residence at Bern Triennale, Switzerland.

2001   Die Kreuzung chosen for ISCM World Music Days performance, Japan.

2000   Pnima… ins Innere chosen as the best premier of the year by the critics survey of the Magazine  Opernwelt, Germany.

2000   Bayerischer Theaterpreis for the opera Pnima… ins Innere,  Germany.

1998   IRCAM reading panel commission, Paris, France.

1997   Exsperimentalstudio of the Heinrich Strobel Stiftung SWR (also in 1999, 2002, 2005, 2007), Germany.

1996   A fellow at Akademie Schloss Solitude Germany.

1994   Amber for orchetsra chosen for ISCM World Music Days, Germany.

1994-95   American NEA fellowship for composing a piece for a Gagaku orchestra while living in Japan.

1993   Asahi Shimbun Fellowship (a generous invitation given to 4 international individuals to live in Japan for a year).

1992   Kranichsteiner Musikpreis at the Darmstadt summer courses for new music, Germany.

1991   Macdowell/Yaddo fellowship, nominated, USA.

1988   Stipendium Preis At the Darmstadt summer courses for new music, Germany .

1987-93   Various scholarships at The University of California, San Diego, USA.

1985   Milton Avery School of the Arts at Bard College scholarship, USA.

1984   Gaudeamus Workshop scholarship, Netherlands.

1983-85   DAAD scholarship for studying in Berlin with Dieter Schnebel Germany.

1981   Represented Israel in Unsco’s Rostorum, with the piece Cubes.

1978-83   America Israel Foundation grants and participation in Young Artist Week, Israel.