As a follow up to the successful Either/Or Lachenmann Festival of 2008, Israeli composer Chaya Czernowin joins Either/Or for a two-day festival on February 25 and 26 which includes a lecture and discussion with the composer as well as the first-ever concert dedicated solely to her music in New York.

Born in Israel in 1957, Chaya Czernowin studied composition with Abel Ehrlich, Dieter Schnebel, Brian Ferneyhough and Roger Reynolds and is recognized as a leading figure in experimental contemporary music and a highly sought-after teacher. Czernowin has held teaching positions at the Yoshiro Irino Institute in Tokyo from 1993-94; the International Summer Courses for New Music in Darmstadt from 1990 to 1999; University of California San Diego from 1997 to 2006; and the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna from 2006 to 2009. She is currently Walter Bigelow Rosen Professor of Music at Harvard University.

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Chaya Czernowin
Ina (1988)
for bass flute and six recorded flutes
12'

Anea Crystal (2008)
Two String Quartets and an Octet
for one or two string quartets
22'

The hour glass bleeds still (1992, rev. 2002)
for string orchestra
19'

Die Kreuzung (1995)
for ensemble
U (alto-Shô or accordion), asax and db
11'