Chaya Czernowin is an Israeli composer. She was born in Haifa, 1957, and raised in Israel. Through her studies with Abel Ehrlich, Brian Ferneyhough and Dieter Schnebel, and various scholarships and prizes, Czernowin has been able to focus intently on refining her unique musical language since the age of twenty-five, living in such diverse regions as Germany, Japan, the United States and Austria. In 2000 her Opera Pnima...ins innere, based on David Grossman’s short story "Momik"