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.