#  The New Yorker: 'Chaya Czernowin Gives Voice to a Wounded World' 

 





May 20, 2026

 

 

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Courtesy: *The New Yorker*; Illustration: Cecilia Carlstedt; Source photograph: Astrid Ackermann Walter Bigelow Rosen Professor of Music Chaya Czernowin was recently featured in at article in *The New Yorker* by Alex Ross, "Chaya Czernowin Gives Voice to a Wounded World." Ross, who traveled to the Witten Days for New Chamber Music festival in Ruhr Valley, Germany "primarily to hear new and recent works by Czernowin," calls her "a composer I would follow anywhere."

The full article is available via [*The New Yorker* website](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/05/25/chaya-czernowin-gives-voice-to-a-wounded-world) (subscription required).



 

 

 

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