Sospeso performs Chaya Czernowin's work Die Kreuzung on January 23, 2003, at Tenri.

Chaya Czernowin has been a Professor at the University of California, San Diego since 1997. She has also taught composition at the Yoshiro Irino Institute, JML, Tokyo; and at the Darmstadt Ferienkurse, from 1990 to 1994 and again in 1998.

Chaya Czernowin studied with Abel Ehrlich, Izchak Sadai, Dieter Schnebel, Eli Yarden, Joan Tower, Brian Ferneyhough, and Roger Reynolds (also her doctoral chair).

Her work has been performed and broadcast in Israel, Europe, Japan, the United States, and Mexico by ensembles such as the Arditti Quartet, ELISION, Ensemble Recherche, the Nieuw Ensemble, SurPlus, Sonor, the Helsinki Philharmonic, and the Orquesta Nacional de México.

Her awards include UNESCO's '81 Rostrum; the Gaudeamus Composer's Workshop Scholarship; a DAAD Scholarship; Stipendium Preis and the Kranichsteiner Musikpreis; Darmstadt Ferienkurse; Asahi Shimbun Fellowship; Japan Foundation Artist Scholarship; NEA Composition Award; ISCM World Music Days (selection and performance of Amber for orchestra); a year's residency at the Akademie Schloß Solitude, Germany; and three Heinrich Strobel Stiftung Fellowships.

Her recent work includes an opera commissioned by the Munich Biennial 2000, and works for the ORF Austrian Radio Orchestra and Ute Wassermann, the Munich Philharmonic, Ircam, and the Donaueschingen Festival.