Paola

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hmmm...john zorn for his music and his view of the world, steve reich, morricone, folkmusic, eno, glass (mishima and the screens), 16th century music, anything I can dance to

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..I love positive energy. I love to write, and create multimedia worlds, and above all, I love communities. The artists I work with, the children I teach, the people who share their worlds with me, and let me continue evolving. I believe in the power of the human heart and connection, and that with this openess we can make some contribution in our short lives... now for the more formal stuff...

"an intoxicating profusion of disparate styles..." Steve SmithTimeOut NY from www.nightafternight.blogs.com
Italian born composer
Paola Prestini, composer Italian born composer PAOLA PRESTINI is the director and co-founder of the award-winning interdisciplinary performing collective, VisionIntoArt (VIA). VIA has performed in theaters, museums, and clubs all over the world and specializes in creating collaborations that stem from new music. Recent large-scale works include two multimedia chamber opera works for VIA performed worldwide--Sounds, based on Kandinsky’s rare manuscript of woodcuts and prose from 1912, and VioLens, inspired by Hoffman’s children morality tales. Her works and arrangements have been commissioned and performed by Carnegie Hall, VIA, Kronos Quartet, the Aleph Ensemble, the Verge Ensemble, the Tucson Symphony, Concert Artist Guild, and the Prism Quartet in venues such as Zankel Hall, Whitney Live series, BAM Café, Symphony Space, Joe’s Pub, Performance Space 122, the Krannert Center, and Royce Hall at UCLA. She has participated in international performances and festivals such as EtnaFest in Sicily, Concerti Apertivi in Milan, and the new music festival BEMUS in Belgrade, Serbia. Other activities include curating at the Stone, and an upcoming article on collaboration for Arcana. Her music is released on Tzadik records. She has been the recipient of numerous awards from organizations such as the Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship, the American Society for Composers and Publishers (ASCAP), the American Music Center, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA). Ms. Prestini has taught and created curricula for the American Composers Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, the New York City Opera, and the American Symphony Orchestra League, and is an advocate for music education in schools; she directs a music initiative through VIA that reaches inner-city high school students through instrument lessons and music technology. The program is housed at Brandeis High School in Manhattan and is a VisionIntoArt education program in partnership with the American Composers Orchestra. She is also the Associate Director of the prestigious Making Score program of the New York Youth Symphony.Ms. Prestini has written music and directed for all VIA’s performances in festivals such as the Brooklyn Academy of Music for Planet XX festival, and the Whitney Museum Resonant Spaces festival. She has been included in ASCAP’s Thru the Walls series at the Cutting Room and has been featured in composition residencies at Dickinson College with the Corigliano String Quartet, North Carolina School of the Arts, and at UCLA. She has written for film and theater extensively, and has been a featured film composer and conductor on CNN for the ASCAP film Composers workshop. Her film collaborations have made the New York Times Critic’s Pick, and have won first prize and made official selection at the Sundance Film Festival, Austin Film Festival among others.Recent prizes and commissions include a grant from the American Music Center, Individual Artist grant from NYSCA, a residency at the Ucross Foundation, a Monumental Brass Quintet’s Women’s Commissioning Project, an ASCAP Morton Gould Composers Award, and a commissioned dance score for St. Marks Danspace Repertory season. Her orchestra work was selected by the American Composers Orchestra’s (ACO) for the Whitaker Reading Sessions; her music has been performed by the New York Concert Singers in the ACO's Immigrant Voices series, the Juilliard Orchestra after winning the Composers Competition, and by members of the NY Philharmonic, and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra in Edinburgh, Scotland. Ms. Prestini received her BM and MM at the Juilliard School and has studied with Samuel Adler, Robert Beaser, and Sir Peter Maxwell Davies.
..LINKS.. ..Some interesting links.....
..> www.paolaprestini.com ..>
..> www.visionintoart.com ..>

Movies:

Amores Perros, Kaos, Fellini, most anything Almodovar, Lady Jane, Paris Je T'aime, Zoolander...hmmm...Napolean Dynamite

Books:

Lorca, Borges, Neruda, Paul Auster, Topolino, Adbusters mag, Bomb mag, Gourevich, Mishima, Pirandello, Elizabeth Gilbert's "Eat, Love, Pray"

Heroes:

Mandela, my mother, strong women, too many to name in my everyday life