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2023 Edmundson Residency at the Berklee School of Music Boston, USA
2023 Zagreb Biennale featured composer Croatia
2023 Distinguished International Artist residency at the Tel Aviv University Faculty of the Arts, Zubin Mehta School of music Tel Aviv. Israel
2023 Gaudeamus Musikdays , Jury, Netherlands.
2022 GEMA German Music Authors award, Germany.
2022 Afekt Festival Estonia, composer in Residence, Estonia
2022 The first recipient of Zimmermann Residenzdozentur. (2 portrait concerts, 3 lectures and teaching) at the Dresden Hochschule Dresden Germany.
2021-22 Karel Husa Visiting Professor of Composition Ithaca college School of music NY, USA
2021 Huddersfield Festival composer in residence, UK.
2021 Musik- Konzepte Edition Text + Kritik publishes a book about Czernowin’s work . The book includes articles by Trevor Bača, Barbara Eckle, Ludger Engels, Jörn Peter Hiekel, Julia Kursell, Hila Tamir Ostrover, and Tim Rutherford-Johnson.
2021 chosen as a member of the Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste, Munich, Germany
2020 Neue Zeitung Fuer Musik dedicates a whole edition of the magazine to the work of Czernowin. (6/2020)
2019-20 Harvard university chosen as a Radcliffe institute fellow. Cambridge USA
2019 Chosen as a member of the European Academy of Music Theatre (EMA), Vienna, Austria
2018 Northeastern University an invited guest of the prestigious speaker series of the Seminar on Leadership, Research, and Innovation. USA
2018 Tchaikovsky city composer academy. featured composer in conjunction with the Eshcolot Projects , Teaching and concerts in Tchaikovsky city Moscow and Saint Petersburg. Russia
2018 Graz Kunst University ARTikulationen conference keynote speaker Austria
2018 Main featured compsoer at UNM festival in Bergen, Norway.
2018 Main featured composer at the Viitasaari Festival, Finland
2018 Chosen as the composer in Focus with Eno Poppe for the 72. Frühjahrstagung des INMM – Institut für Neue Musik und Musikerziehung Darmstadt, Germany .
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 Main featured composer, Manifeste, IRCAM, Paris, France
2014 Keynote speaker at the Society for Music Theory (Der Gesellschaft fuer Musiktheorie GMTH) Haute Ecole De Musique de Geneva, Switzerland
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, Main featured composer Finland.
2013 Magister Ludi Festival Moscow, Main 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, main featured composer Sweden.
2008 Hateiva Marathon, Israel (Ensemble Nikel) main 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 Main 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.