Draft:Patricia Alessandrini

Patricia Alessandrini is an Italian composer and sound artist. Alessandrini studied composition and electronics at the Conservatorio G.B.Martini di Bologna, Conservatoire National de Région de Strasbourg, and IRCAM, and holds two PhDs, from Princeton University and the SonicArts Research Centre (SARC) respectively. Her principal composition teachers were Ivan Fedele, Tristan Murail, and Thea Musgrave. She is currently a part-time Lecturer in Sonic Arts at Goldsmiths. Alessandrini's work captures he concert music repertoire, Her music constitutes subjects related to social and political issues. Her works are for the most part multimedia, theatrical, and collaborative, involving elements such as live electronics, resonating and animated objects, and interactive video.

Awards
She was composer-in-residence at the 2010 soundSCAPE festival, and with the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) in 2012. She was awarded first prize in 2009 in the Sond’Arte Composition Competition for Chamber Music with Electronics, and a Förderpreis in Composition by the Darmstädter Ferienkurse in 2012. In 2015-6, she will be featured in the four-concert Soundkitchen series of the Ensemble InterContemporain at the Gaîté lyrique.

Selected publications
Array, yearly publication of the International Computer Music Association, co-editor with Shelly Watts, October 2017

‘A Spectral Methodology of the Virtual and Physical’, Oxford Handbook of Spectral Music, Ed. Bryan .Christian, Oxford University Press, 2017

‘Resisting reproduction in the digital age’, Nutida Musik, December 2016

‘A Dress or a Straightjacket? Facing the Questions of Structure and Rhythm Posed by the Notation and Re-notation of Berios Sequenza VII for Oboe’, in Berios Sequenzas, Janet K. Halfyard, ed., Ashgate, 2007

Selected presentation of works

Nov 2017 Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Première for ensemble and electronics, Ensemble Explore

Nov 2016 Sound Aberdeen Festival, première for voice, flute and electronics with Juliet Fraser and Richard Craig

Oct 2016 Donaueschingen Musiktage, première for Ensemble Recherche with live electronics

Sept 2016 Gaudeamus, performance of Hommage à Purcell by Oerknal! with live electronics

May 2015 Salzburg Biennale, performance of Nachtgewächse for ensemble and electronics, students of the Mozarteum conducted by Marino Formenti

Apr 2015 Sonorities Festival performance by les Dyonisiens of Trio d’après Schoenberg

Mar 2015 Kontraklang performance by Seth Josel of menus morceaux par un autre moi réunis

Nov 2015 UK tour by Ensemble Interface of Alphabet de ténèbres for ensemble and electronics

Mar. 2014 Electric Spring Festival, Huddersfield, UK, performance of Bodied Chambers for cello and electronics by Seth Woods

Mar. 2014 INTER/actions, Bangor, Wales, performance of Bodied Chambers by Seth Woods

Nov. 2013 Rainy Days Festival, Festival de musique nouvelle contemporaine, Philharmonie Luxembourg, 2013 edition 2013 with the theme ’Take your time’, presentation of the installation Adagio sans quatuor

Aug. 2013 Hakuju Music Festival, Tokyo, performance of menus morceaux par un autre moi réunis for guitar and electronics by Gaku Yamada, guitar, Sumihisa Arima, electronics

Aug. 2013 Stockholm Music Acoustics Conference/SMC Sound and Music Computing Conference 2013, Stockholm, diffusion of Nani series (series of three acousmatic compositions)

May 2013 San Francisco International Arts Festival, ’One Must Believe in Ones Inspiration’, performance by the Earplay Ensemble of Trio d’après Schoenberg for ensemble and live electronics on the same concert as the String Trio, Op 45 of Schoenberg, Oberlin Dance Collective Theater

March 2013 Ars Musica Festival (Brussels), première of a new version of menus morceaux par un autre moi réunis for guitar and electric guitar by Jona Kesteleyn, guitar, Patricia Alessandrini, electronics

Aug. 2012 Mostly Mozart (Lincoln Center, NYC), première of Black, black, black (Omaggio a Berio) by the International Contemporary Ensemble with Nicholas Hodges, piano

July 2012 Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik Darmstadt, première of Forklaret Nat by the Arditti Quartet (opening piece of the festival)

July 2011 International Computer Music Conference (ICMC) Huddersfield, presentation of the installation Adagio sans quatuor

May. 2011 Spor Festival (Aarhus, Denmark), première of Mismoded for ensemble with live electronics and interactive video by Ensemble Voz Nueva, in collaboration with visual artist Hans Ovad

Nov. 2010 Sonorities (Belfast), Adagio pour l’absence, network performance with live electronics with interactive video ’game’ by Rob King (performed simultaneously in Graz, Austria)

June 2010 SoundSCAPE (Italy), portrait concert featuring works with live electronics

April 2009 Festival de la imagen (Manizales, Colombia), performance of menus morceaux par un autre moi réunisfor guitar and electronics by cARRASCo+zEa=gUITAr+electronics

April 2009 Festival en tiempo real (Bogotá, Colombia), performance of menus morceaux par un autre moi réunis for guitar and electronics by cARRASCo+zEa=gUITAr+electronics

March 2009 SARC in Brazil, performances of menus morceaux par un autre moi réunis for guitar and electronics in São Paulo, Rio de janeiro, and Curitiba by Mauricio Carrasco, guitar, Patricia Alessandrini, electronics

June 2007 Festival Musiques Démesurées, performance of two works with live electronics, including Soliloquefor cello and electronics, premièred by Séverine Ballon

July 2006 Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik Darmstadt, Nadie Encendìa las Làmparas

June 2006 Festival Uno Uno Prima (Parma), portrait concert of chamber works with electronics

Jan 2004 Festival Premiers Gestes (Paris), première of complete Études for piano by Hans Kretz

Sept 2003 Festival Musica Strasbourg, performance of Étude 1bis d’après Scarlatti

Sept 2002 Festival Musica Strasbourg, performanceof Wie bin ich froh!, Ensemble Accroche Note

Sept 2000 Pacific New Music Festival, performance of Shiva for ensemble

Selected works

 * De profundis clamavi (hommage à Alban Berg) for string quartet and electronics (optional)
 * Nachtgewächse
 * Pastorale (Hommage à Alfred Schnittke)
 * Menus morceaux par un autre moi réunis