BIOGRAPHY
Electroacoustic performer and composer of orchestral, electroacoustic and chamber music, winner of several international and national awards, she publishes her works and writings with numerous publishing houses, record companies and specialized magazines.
She is a member of the Board of Directors of SIMC-Italia, Faculty member of the Composition Department of the Soundscape Festival (https://soundscapefestival.org/) and member of Agon Acustica Informatica Musica.
Master in Composition at the University Nacional of Rosario (Argentina) and Master in Electronic Music at the Conservatorio “G.Verdi”, Milan. Master in Sound Technologies and Music Composition at the Conservatory and University of Parma. Masterclasses with Dante Grela and Francisco Kropfl in Argentina, with Franco Donatoni (Italy), Advanced Courses at the Accademia Chigiana di Siena, Accademia Internazionale “Goffredo Petrassi” Biella, ecc. Seminars and Masterclasses in Composition with Giorgy Ligeti, Ennio Morricone, Henri Pousseur and Javier Torres Maldonado in Electronic Music.
Selected by the 2011 IRCAM Workshop at the Biennal of Venice, for the 2014 SaMPL Sound and Music Processing Project in WaveFieldSynthesis environments (Conservatory Pollini, Padova) and for the 2012 Composition workshop with instruments and live electronics (Icarus Ensemble, Reggio Emilia)
2019 Stage at the GRAME (Centre National de Creation Musicale, Lyon)
Artist in residence at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (USA)
Artist in residence at the Gästeatelier Krone di Aarau. (Svizzera)
Composer in residence for the 2016 Italian Composers Forum of the Centro di Musica Contemporanea, Milan
Member of the Jury of the 2018, 2021 e 2022 WPTA Composition Competition (Buenos Aires)
Jury of the Festival Nuovi Orizzonti Sonori 2016.
Lectures at Casa del Suono di Parma (Il Suono Occulto 2012; Il Suono Occulto 2013), Conservatorio di Musica of Rovigo (Italia), Sibelius Accademy (Helsinki), Soundscape Festival ( faculty member). Published articles like “El analisis musical” ( “Conceptos” University del Museo Sociale Argentino, Buenos Aires), “La musica atonal” (CODEXXI, Barcelona), “Tombeau de Messiaen ovvero del dualismo armonia/timbro” (http://www.nuovemusichttps://www.nuovemusiche.it/emtombeau-de-messiaen-em-ovvero-del-dualismo-armonia-timbro/articoli/316he.it/)
Awards: 2020 First Prize Academy of Music, Wien, 2017 Teatro Musical Theatre for Kids, Centro di Musica Contemporanea, MIlan; 2016 WPTA Composition Competition, SONOM 2012 (Electronic Music), 2012 Erasmus Competition Universitè VIII (Elecronic Music- Paris), “Trinac 2011” (Fondazione“Encuentros Internacionales de Musica Contemporanea” of Alicia Terzian); “Miriam Gideon” Prize 2010 (Research for New Music Competition by the International Alliance for Women in Music); “Claxica 2009”; the 2007 Composition Contest of the Percussive Arts Society (Italy) ecc.
Editors: Edizioni Curci (Milano), Edizioni Bèrben (Ancona), Editions Delatour (France), Sconfinarte (Milano).
Labels: Neos (Germany), Bèrben (Ancona), Pilfink (Finland), Centro di Musica Contemporanea (Milano)
Festivals (selection):
She has participated in numerous festivals such as 2022 New York Electroacoustic Music Festival, 2022 IAWM International Conference of Oregon State University (USA), 2022 Convergence Seminar Technological Interactivity of Antwerp Royal Conservatory of Belgium, 2021 SIMC Festival Dante at the Conservatorio di Novara, 2020 NEO Concerts season (Buenos Aires); 2020 La Hora acusmatica (Cordoba), 2020 Science in the City Festival, Trieste 2020; 2020 SIID Sound Image and Interaction design Symposium 2020; 2020 Vapore d'Estate (Acusmonium Audior and Agon Acustica informatica Musica), 2019 Evimus Elektro-akustiche un visuelle Musik Festival (Germany), 2018 MUSLAB Muestra Internacional de musica electroacustica (Mexico), 2018 Angelica Festival (Bologna), 2018 Festival 5 Giornate of Milan, 2018 Ars Elettronica Forum Wallis (Switzerland), 2017 Ciclo Internacional de Musica "Laberintos sonoros" of the Centro Nacional de las Artes (Cenart) of Mexico, Soundscape Festival Maccagno 2017, 2017 Angelica Festival, 2017 Calende in Musica (Alessandria), 2017 AtMusica (Tours), 2016 WPTA International Conference, 2016 CIM (Colloquio Informatica Musicale, Cagliari), 2016 EMU Fest (Rome), 2016 North and South Consonance (New York), 2016 New Music on the Bayou (Louisiana), 2014 and 2013 Semaine of the Musique Eletroacustique in Lille (France), 2014 (Wroclaw) and 2013 World New Music Days (Kosice-Bratislava-Vienna), 2013 International Computer Music Conference (Perth), 2009 Season of the Teatro Colon (Buenos Aires),10° New York Guitar Seminar at Mannes (New York); 2010 Festival Gare Du Nord (Basilea); Festival Armonie d’Autore (Milan); 5° Ciclo de Musica Contemporanea del Centro Nacional de Musica “Carlos Vega” (Buenos Aires), World Bass Clarinet Convention (Rotterdam), 6th Annual Women New Music Festival (California State University, (USA), 2008 Beijing International Festival of Women in Music, 2008 International Computer Music Conference (Belfast), the Brinkhall Summer Concert 2009 and 2010 (Finland) etc.
Ensembles e Orchestre: Eastman BroadBand Ensemble, Ned nsemble, Dedalo Ensemble, Duo Alterno, Taller Sonoro (Spagna), Trio Anemos, I Piccoli Pomeriggi Musicali Orchestra, Dedalo Ensemble, Duo46, Orchestra da Camera Fiorentina, I Pomeriggi Musicali Orchestra, North/South Consonance Ensemble (New York), the “Goffredo Petrassi” Choir (Rome), CUBE Ensemble (Chicago), the Kiev State Philarmonic Orchestra, New Made Ensemble, Martin Devoto and so on.
Commissioni: Duo Alterno, Acusmonium Audior, Wienner Glasharmonika Duo, New Made Ensemble, Soundscape Festival, Orchestra da Camera Fiorentina, Duo Tubi e Corde, Ensemble Barcelona Nueva Musica, I Piccoli Pomeriggi Musicali Orchestra, Duo46, Fondazione Adkins Chiti Foundation, Flair Trio (Fluckiger-Ruetsche-Laderach), Sudbury Guitar Trio, Nicolas Delettaille, Omar Cyrulnik, Leopoldo Saracino, Lisa Cella, Thomas Ronsenkranz, FrameDuo, Patrik Kleemola and so on.
Teaching at the Conservatorio di Musica “Manuel de Falla”(Buenos Aires), University del Salvador (Buenos Aires), University del Museo Social Argentino (Buenos Aires), University Nacional de Rosario (Argentina), Civico Istituto Musicale Folcioni” (Italy), Scuola Civica di Musica di Varese (Italy), Scuola Civica di Cesano Boscone (Italy). Faculty member of the Soundscape Festival (2010-2022)
As Artistic Director of La sala dei Tanti (www.lasaladeitanti.org), collaborates with the city of MIlan, the Palazzina Liberty, the Wind City Ensemble, the Milan Conservatory (Flute Lab and New Technologies Department), the Milan Centro di Musica Contemporanea.
As Director of Progetto Limina in Argentina e Uruguay, has collaborated with the City of Rosario, Istituto Italiano di Cultura in Montevideo, Consolate Agencies of Rivera, Salto, Carmelo e Maldonado (Uruguay), Istituto Italiano di Cultura in Buenos Aires, Istituto Italiano di Cultura Mar del Plata, Universidad Nacional Rosario, Universidad Nacional Santa Fe ecc.
Collaborates with con il Centro di Musica Contemporanea di Milano and was the coordinator between Schiapparelli Space ad Centro di MUsica Contemporanea. Member of the Board of the SIMC (Iitalian Society for contemporary music), IAWM (International Alliance for Women in Music), Suonodonne Italia and FADEC (Foro Argentino de Compositoras).
She has collaborated with pianist Esther Flueckiger and composer Max E. Keller for the “Progetto Flair” (2009/2010).
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Music and Dance for Migrant Hearts
Lunedi 19 giugno ore 20:00
Spazio Lambrate, Milano
Moon Arra, Cardew Ensemble, Maurizio Marducca, Nicola Baroni e Marcela Pavia
Danza: Marcella Bassanesi e Sofia Paracchini
PIANO CITY MILANO
IRA-ARKA
per pianoforte, hand sphere e elettronica
PROGETTO DI MARCELA PAVIA E ESTHER FLUCKIGER
Musiche di Marcela Pavia e Esther Fluckiger
Esther Flueckiger: pianoforte e handsphere
Marcela Pavia: elettronica
Massimo Marchi: Regia del suono
Produzione AGON
SUNDAY, MAY 14, 2023 AT 11 AM
Human Body Melodies | Centenario Società Italiana Musica Contemporanea ✹
Mask in collaborazione con Eufonica nell’ambito di XIII Maskfest 2023
Saundaryalahari
Risonanze: composizione collettiva con sistemi digitali interattivi e danza carpatica indiana
Musiche di Georges Aperghis, Yati Durant, Nicola Baroni, Massimiliano Messieri, Marcela Pavia.
Elena Tereshchenko soprano, percussioni; Nicola Baroni violoncello, elettronica; Yati Durant tromba, elettronica; Massimiliano Messieri elettronica, percussioni, Marcela Pavia elettronica; Marcella Bassanesi e Sofia Paracchini, danza indiana.
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RADIO NACIONAL CLASICA
Buenos Aires, Argentina, 21 aprile ore 15:00
Con Pablo Llamazares, hablo Kunik, Nestor Ciravolo
Intervista a Marcela Pavia
Umbrales, opera acusmaticao di Marcela Pavia
SATMUS
I CONGRESO INTERNACIONAL SATMUS
Una paorximacion pedagogica e interdisciplinar al analisi y a la teoria musical
Universidad Autonoma de Madrid y el Real Conservatorio Superior de Musica de Madrid
20, 21 y 22 de abril 2023
21 abril, 11:00 Hs: Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (Salon de Grados)
Psicologia de la Teoria y del Analisi Musical. Modera Jose Luis Besada
Marcela Pavia: Reflexiones sobre la construcción compositiva del significado musical
EUFONICA 2023
CONCERTO SAUNDARYALAHARI
Primo Appuntamento di Presentazione della stagione concertistica “Liszt musicista nel futuro” e dei progetti “Saundaryalahari”,“Operaaga”, “Music , Materials and Mind”:
Domenica 16 aprile, ore 12:15
Palazzo Re Enzo, PIazza del Nettuno, Bologna
Spettacolo per soprano, percussioni, violoncello, tromba, elettronica e danza indiana
Musiche di Giorgis Asperghis, Dati Durant,Nicola Baroni, Massimiliano Messieri, Fabio De Sanctis De Benedictis, Marcela Pavia. Danza carpatica Marcela Bassanesi, soprano Elena Tereschenko
Il Soundarya o Saundaryalahari (Onde di bellezza) è una famosa opera letteraria che si ritiene sia stata scritta in India dal saggio
Pushpadanta e Adi Shankara nll’VIII secolo nell’attuale Kerala.
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WEBINAR
Music Materials Mind
Venerdi 24 marzo
Dr. Erica Bisesi (KTH.University of Montreal), Dr. Fabio Cicoira(Montreal Polytechnique), Dr. Nicola Baroni(G.B Martin Conservatory, Bologna ), Nikhil Prabu
Visiting Researcher at TheISRO/ArtScienceBLR, Geoerge Panicker
Undergraduate Researcher at SMI/ArtScienceBLR Arkoprabho Bhattacharjee
Graduate Researcher at SMI/ArtScienceBLR, Massimo Marchi (Milan Conservatory, President AGON), Marcela Pavia (Agon composer affiliated)
Music Materials Mind is a webinar that brings together material scientists, physicists, neuroscientists, composers, artists and performers. This first edition will feature researchers from Canada, Italy and India from various disciplines who are working at the interface of novel sensors, brain computer interfaces and music composition and performance interfaces.
Presentations will include: Researchers from Srishti Manipal Institute, ArtScienceBLR and The Indian Sonic Organisation in India. Researchers and scientists from the University of Montreal and the Montreal Polytechnique in Canada, and composers and musicians from Bologna, Italy.
This is meant to be an introductory seminar for future and potential collaborators to understand the work that is happening at the intersections of Materials science, Physics, Neuroscience and Music.
Festival 5 Giornate di Milano
XVII Edizione
Milano, 18-22 marzo
Direzione artistica: Alessandro Calcagnile e Rossella Spinosa
Domenica 19 marzo ore 16:00
Incontro dedicato a la creazione musicale e agli obIettivi
dell’Agenda 2030 con la partecipazione di Nicola Baroni,
Umberto Bombardelli, Catia Caradonna, Sergio Colella,
Marcela Pavia
STORY TIME RADIO CANALE ITALIA
Intervista a MARCELA.PAVIA
VIERNES 10 MARZO ORE. 1130
https://canaleitalia.it/radio/
Cielo Libre: Imaginar la libertad
In uscita il cortometraggio del Editore Valore Italiano insieme alla re-edizione del libro
http://www.cielolibre.org/
Un corto di videopoesia, fumetto, musica e suoni filmato presso la ESMA (Escuela de Mecanica de la Armada Argentina) di Buenos Aires, uno dei tanti luoghi di tortura e prigione illegale della dittatura argentina.
Un film di Sergio Colella
Musica di Marcela Pavia e Fabio Volpi
Coordination musical: Marcela Pavia
Che si può fare di Barbara Strozzi
Tiorba: Francesca Torelli, Soprano Elsa Biscari
Contemporary Music Hub, Milano
Agon Acustica Informatica Musica
Sketches
Liminal: Concerto-Opera Decomposing the Composed
Omar Cyrulnik e Marcela Pavia
Chitarra, Percu-chitarra, elettronica e controllers
Musiche di Piazzolla, Moscardini, Freiberg, Brower e Pavia
2 Dicembre 2022, Fabbrica del Vapore, ore 21:00, Milano
XXIX International Chopin and Friend Festival, 2-17 Novembre 2022
Polish and Slavic Center, New York
Jakub Polaczyc: ArtisticDirector
Concert Train Stop N° 2: John Cage
“EMPTY SWOSCIS occasional action for piano, audio track, pianist, actress, and people to John Cage”
Music by John Cage, Silvia Lanzalone, Marcela Pavia, Bernard de Vienne, Paolo Rosato
New York, November 10, ore 19:00
GATM
XIX Convegno di Analisi e Teoria Musicale
Istituto Lettimi, RIMINI, 18-20 novembre 2022
Marcela Pavia: Morton Feldman: dalla indeterminazione temporale alla proiezione del timbro
ENIM 20200- XI ENCONTRO DE INVESTIGAÇÃO EM MÚSICA
Universidade de Aveiro, 10 a 12 de Novembro de 2022
organizado pela
SPIM – Sociedade Portuguesa de Investigação em Música
em parceria com
INET-md – Instituto de Etnomusicologia – Centro de Estudos em Música e Dança e
Universidade de Aveiro
Erica Bisesi e Marcela Pavia
Marcela Pavia’ Des temps suspendus and Des ondes suspendues.
Relating musical structure to expression through timbral analysis and rendition
10 novembre
C’è del nuovo
SIMC- Conservatorio di Pesaro
III Edizione
Seminari e Concerti
Tavola Rotonda 19 ottbre ore 10:30
con Biagio PUtignano, Marcela Pavia, Andre Talmelli, Lamberto Lugli, Patrizio Esposito e Gisela Belgeri
Milano Suona Contemporanea www.milanosuonacontemporanea.it
Direzione generale Spettacolo Milano, Tema, Edizioni Sconfinarte
Teatro Bruno Munari, 2 settembre 2022, ore 19:00
Musiche di M. Pavia, G. Delgado, c. Kassem, J. Leichman, J. Trigo
Marcela Pavia: elettronica, GianLuigi Nuccini: flauto
Ingresso Libero
39° SIMPOSYUM OF CONTEMPORARY MUSIC
Ensemble Rosario
August 27 2022
Sala Principe de Asturias, Centro Culturale de España (COPE)
Sonan for flute
Maria Victoria Gomez: flute
WORLD PIANO TEACHER ASSOCIATION
WPTA ARGENTINA
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION
PERFRMANCE AND COMPOSITION
2022 EDITION: New Award for Current Pianistic Creation
www.wpta.info/argentina/ipc
wpta.argentina@gmail.com
Applications from July 4 to August 28
Honorary Jury: Marcela Pavia
soundSCAPE Festival
Bobbio, Italy – July 6-16, 2022
Applications Open December 22, 2021 – March 1, 2022
soundSCAPE facilitates the flowering of new music and the exchange of ideas and culture between musicians of tomorrow’s generation. We offer an unparalleled collaborative environment for composers and performers to come together and create new music together. Over the course of 10 days, participants will attend daily concerts, lectures, master classes and workshops led by our world-class faculty of contemporary musicians. Our 2022 Faculty includes: Tony Arnold, voice
Lisa Cella, flute
Shih-Hui Chen, composition
Felix Fan, cello
Mark Fewer, violin
Aiyun Huang, percussion
Denis Martin, sound engineering
Marcela Pavia, composition
Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez, composition
Thomas Rosenkranz, piano
Joshua Rubin, clarinet
NEW YORK CITY ELECTROACUSTIC MUSIC FESTIVAL
Sheen Center for Thought and Culture and Loreto Theatre
June 26-06 2022
La gabbia di K for flute, clarinet, sax and electronics by Marcela Pavia
Enzo Filippett: tenor sax, Lucy Hatem clarinet, Beatrix Wagner flute
Convergence Seminar
Antwerp Research Institute for the Arts
May 20 2022
Marcela Pavia and Esther Flueckiger presents Ira Arka Technological Interactivity
Performance seminar
IAWM 2022 Conference Music int the time of Change
Oregon State University, Corvallis Oregon, USA
Virtual Listening Room: Risonanze by Marcela Pavia (acousmatic )
Memorial Union Main Lounge, Oregon
June 3, 2022
Xtreme Project
Nell’ambito del Re-Orient concerto: Indian MUsical Influences on Contemporary Classical (Re-Orient Duo meets the Xtreme Ensemble) Antartide per pianoforte, violoncello ed elettronica di Marcela Pavia, parte integrante della Suite Antarctica Massimiliano Messieri, Marco Giommoni, Mauricio Dottori
Full Circle House, Bruselas
22 maggio, ore 18:30
CONSERVATORIO G. B. PERGOLESI — FERMO
AUDITORIUM BILLÈ, 28 aprile
LO STATUTO DELL’OPERA NELLA MUSICA CONTEMPORANEA:
ESTEMPORIZZAZIONE, IMPROVVISAZIONE, ALEA E NUOVI SEGNI
15.00-17.00 SALVATORE SCIARRINO
17.30-18.30 ALESSANDRO BERTINETTO
18.30 ROSATO, DE VIENNE, PAVIA, VITI, GENTILE
Paper Music (De Vienne)
Cage, no cage (Pavia) (anteprima)
Fabrizio Viti: pianoforte
Baccanale (Cage)
Festval 5 Giornate di Milano
Centro di Musica Contemporanea
dal 18 al 22 di marzo- Museo del Novecento, MIlano
Rosella Spinosa e Alessandro Calcagnile: Direzione Artistica
22 marzo, ore 17:00
Concerto del New Made Ensemble
Enzo Filippetti (sassofono), Maurizio Schifitto (sassofono), Alessandro Castelli (trombone).
Musiche di Nicola Sani, Umberto Bombardelli, Fabrizio Festa, Gabriele Manca, Marcela Pavia, Paolo Rotili, Rossella Spinosa
La Sala dei Tanti and the Civica Orchestra di Fiati TOBE RE SCHEDULED Palazzina Liberty in Musica April 3 hour 16:00, Milan
PinoOcchio: Fiaba Ambientalista with Marcella Bassanesi and Gianni Coluzzi Artist Director Marcela Pavia Musical Director. Diego Collino Lights: Emanuele Cavalcanti
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Marcela Pavia (IT/ARG) Composer of chamber and orchestral music, electroacoustic and multimedia works, Musical Theatre for Kids and music for didactics. Author of theoretical essays, Board of Directors of the Italian Society for Contemporary Music, member of Agon Acustica Informatica Musica, Faculty Member of the Soundscape Festival (2010-2022), member of Acusmonium Audior Association, Mask Association, Artistic Board of Vapore D’Estate Milan Festival and Artistic Director of La Sala dei Tanti Association.
Awarded with national and international prizes her works have been commissioned and performed in Europe, North and South America, Australia and Cina and by ensembles and orchestras like Broad Band Ensemble, Noise Ensemble, Ned Ensemble, Dedalo Ensemble, Duo Alterno, Taller Sonoro, I Piccoli Pomeriggi Musicali Orchestra, I Pomeriggi Musicali Orchestra, Cube Ensemble (Chicago), Duo 46 (Usa), Trio Flair (Switzerland), New Made Ensemble etc and in Festivals like Forum Wallis Suiss Contemporary Music Festival, Angelica Festival, Cagliari Computer Music Conference, North and South Consonance (New York), Semaine della Musique Eletroacustique, Universitè 3 Lille (France), International Computer Music Conference (Perth), 10° New York Guitar Seminar at Mannes (New York); Festival Gare Du Nord (Basilea), International Computer Music Conference (Belfast) etc. She was selected by ISCM jury to represent Italy and Argentina in various editions of the ISCM World News Music Days (2011 World New Music Days and Bienal of Music at Zagreb, 2014 WNMD Wroclaw and 2013 WNMD Kosice-Bratislava-Vienna). She was also selected for the 2011 Ircam Workshop at the Biennial of Venice. Her works have been published by international editors and labels (Editions Delatour, Edizioni Curci, Edizioni Berben, Neos (Germany), Pilfink (Finland) etc.