...heartbreakingly vulnerable.
Its sounds—often rasping, grating bundles of energy—project across impossibly large spaces, like concrete cantilevers, precisely tensioned just short of breaking point. Listening is like discovering butterflies trapped under stones.

— Tim Rutherford-Johnson MAY 26TH 2011,The Rambler

Sometimes I think that Czernowin is our greatest living composer.
Certainly, her work routinely inspires astonishment, bewilderment, and awe—reliable indicators of greatness in action.

— Alex Ross January 27 2025 The New Yorker

Chaya Czernowin is a major, distinctive voice in new music on both sides of the Atlantic.

— Andrew Clements March 18 2021 The Guardian UK

One of the most fearless and most sensual composers of the present.                

— Christine Lemke-Matwey NOV 21ST 2019 DIE ZEIT

Czernowin composes the negative beauty of disaster; it is the musical equivalent of Picasso’s “Guernica” or Anselm Kiefer’s “Margarethe.”

— Alex Ross August 27 2018 The New Yorker