PAOLA PRESTINI

EDUCATION

2000 Master of Music, The Julliard School, New York UNITED STATES

1999 The Peabody Conservatory, Baltimore UNITED STATES

1999 Summer Study, La Schola Cantorum, Paris FRANCE

1998 The Julliard School Bachelor of Music Composition UNITED STATES

1996 Course for Young Composers, Scotland UNITED KINGDOM

COMPOSITION STUDIES

2000 ASCAP Film Scoring Sessions UNITED STATES

2000 Samuel Adler Julliard Master of Music (1998-2000), New York UNITED STATES

1999 Claude Bonet & Philip Lasser La Schola Cantorum, Paris UNITED STATES

1998 Julliard Bachelor of Music (1995-1998), New York UNITED STATES

1996 Sir Peter Maxwell Davies Course for Young Composers UNITED STATES

AWARDS / GRANTS

2014 NEA Three grants for Labyrinth, The Colorado, and Aging Magician

2014 NEA Award

2014 ASCAP Victor Hebert Career Award

2010 American Music Center CAP Grant

2009 New York State Council on the Arts, Individual Artists Grant

2009 First prize in the Marimba / Cello Duo category, Classical Marimba League Composition Competition

2009 Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Grant Award

2008 American Music Center CAP Grant

2008 The Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust for New Music Grant

2008 Trust for Mutual Understanding Grant

2007 American Music Center CAP Grant

2006 New York State Council on the Arts, Individual Artists Grant

2006 Lower Manhattan Cultural Grant / Swing Space Award

2004 American Music Center CAP Grant

2003 Monumental Brass Quintet Womens Commissioning Award

2002 ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award

2001 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans (1999-2001)

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2000 Whitaker Reading Sessions, American Composers Orchestra

COMMISSIONS / PRODUCTIONS

2018 Old Man and the Sea with Robert Wilson, Sydney Opera commission

2016 Biennale / LA Philharmonic 21c Liederabend

2016 Gilgamesh Opera with Cerise Jacobs, Boston Celebrity Series with Beth Morrison Projects

2016 The Colorado for Roomful of Teeth with Murat Eyuboglu, performed at the Met Museum, VisionIntoArt commission

2016 Mass Re-Imagining with Brenda Shaughnessy and the Choir of Trinity Wall Street

2015 Dalton Orchestra commission

2015 ASCAP Song Commission

2015 Epiphany performed at BAM’s Next Wave Festival with Young People’s Chorus and Niloufar Talebi and Ali Hossaini

2015-16 Hubble Cantata, the Washington Chorus with Royce Vavrek, Kennedy Centre premiere, VisionIntoArt commission

2015-16 Aging Magician with Rinde Eckert and Julian Crouch, Music theater work for Brooklyn Youth Chorus, in residence at

the Park Avenue Armory, the Walker Arts Center and Krannert Center (Supported by the NEA, NEFA, and a

VisionIntoArt commission)

2015 Irving Klein Competition Pieces

2015 Francesca dePasquale, solo violin work with electronics for recording, commissioned by dePasquale and the

Leonore Annenburg Scholarship Fellowship

2014 8 Takes New York Philharmonic Biennale for Sumire Kudo

2014 Labyrinth: Room No. 35 installation concerto featuring Maya Beiser with Erika Harrsch at the Krannert Center

2014 Oceanic Verses, Zankel Hall and Bard College, Carnegie Hall commission,

2012-13 VOX, the Kennedy Center, River to River and the Barbican with BBC orchestra

2013 21c Liederabend VisionIntoArt at Galapagos Art Space and the Kitchen (co-producer with Beth Morrison Projects,

2009, 2011, 2013)

2011 De Deo, new opera with Donna Di Novelli, Word First program New York City Opera VOX, NY

2011-12 House of Solitude installation concerto featuring Cornelius Dufallo with Carmen Kordas at UCSF Strings in the 21st

Century, River to River festival, SUNY Fredonia, and Hararea festival in Zimbabwe and the Krannert Center

2011 Spell for the Chicago Symphony Music Now, commissioned by WNYC

2010 Listen, Quiet at the opening of the Willson Theater, commissioned by the Juilliard School

2010 Wake Up at Issue Project Room featuring Gabriel Kahane, commissioned by MATA

2010 Sounds at the Laguna Beach Music Festival Performance, featuring the Claremont Trio

2010 Ferus Festival at Galapagos Art Space, curator of a monthly series of interdisciplinary work for 5 months,

VisionIntoArt Presents

2009 Little Stars at Weill Hall, commissioned by Concert Artist Guild / Sarah Wolfson

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2008 Violens at PS 122, commissioned by Concert Artists Guild / Cary Trust’s Contemporary Music Project Commission

2008 As Sleep Befell, Lar Lubovtich Dance Company, VisionIntoArt commission

2008 Violens at the Coli Festival, Performance Space 122, VisionIntoArt Presents

2007-09 Sounds at the Whiney Live, EtnaFest, Italy, commissioned by WNYC

2007 Travelling Songs at Joes Pub, NY, NY & JugoKoncert BEMUS, Belgrade, Serbia, VisionIntoArt Presents

2007 Traveling Songs, Sounds, and Body Maps at Whiney Live, VisionIntoArt month long residency

2007 Sounds at Etnafest, Catania, Italy, VisionIntoArt Presents

2006 Sounds at Teatro Manzoni, Milan, Italy, VisionIntoArt Presents

2006 A Tough Line at BAM Café, Whitney at Altria Resonant Spaces Festival & Thru the Walls at the Cutting Room, NY

2006 Armenia, performed by the , Awakening Concert commission

2002-03 Democrazy Lectures, Keynote performance, Council on Foundations, the Thomas S. Kenan Institute, VisionIntoArt

Presents

2001 Solitute for the American Composers Orchestra for the Immigrant Voice Series

PUBLICATIONS

2008 Map to Collaboration, Arcana III, Musicians on Music. Hips Road, edition by John Zorn

2008-07 Bootstraps: online guide to musicianship, New York State Alliance on the Arts

2006 To be or not to be a 501c(3), New Music Box

DISCOGRAPHY

2015 Labyrinth, VIA Records

2014 Something of Life, Innova / VIA Records

2014 Oceanic Verses, VIA Records

2009 Without Kronos Quartet film score, On The Fly Films Sounds, VisionIntoArt release

2009 Traveling Songs, VisionIntoArt release

2008 Body Maps, Tzadik Records

2006 Sympathique, Viola Solo Melia Watras, Flor de Son label

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