Clara Iannotta, born in Rome in 1983, is particularly interested in music as an existential, physical experience, believing music should be seen as well as heard.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Clara Iannotta's artistic thinking is significantly influenced by Italo Calvino's 'Six Memos for the Next Millennium,' which promote lightness, quickness, visibility, exactitude, and multiplicity as characteristics of art.
Composer Biography
Clara Iannotta has studied at prestigious institutions including the Conservatories of Milan and Paris, IRCAM, and Harvard University.
Composer Biography
Clara Iannotta has received several awards, including the Hindemith-Preis 2018 and the Composers' Prize of the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation in 2018.
Composer Biography
Since 2014, Clara Iannotta has served as the artistic director of the Bludenzer Tage zeitgemäßer Musik, a festival for contemporary music.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Clara Iannotta's compositions do not tell a story but instead develop a physiognomy, nurturing sensory spaces where the ear can wander and contemplate.
Compositional Technique
In 'dead wasps in the jam-jar (ii),' Clara Iannotta transforms Johann Sebastian Bach's Partita BWV 1002 for violin solo into waves and swirls of diverse sounds, sometimes at the limit of audibility.
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