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 Robert Beaser 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 New York Philharmonic 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, New York City Opera
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 Kronos Quartet, 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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