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    Funeral Sentences: Ensemble Vortex

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    De profundis clamavi: Arditti Quartet

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    Étude d'après Scarlatti: P.Alessandrini

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    Trio d'après Schoenberg: Solistes l'EIC

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Patricia Alessandrini’s works actively engage with the concert music repertoire, and issues of representation, interpretation, perception and memory. She has become increasingly involved in multimedia, theatrical and collaborative work, often involving social and political issues. Her compositions have been performed in the new music festivals Agora (Paris), Archipel (Geneva), Festival de la imagen (Manizales), Festival en tiempo real (Bogotá), Festival Synthèse (Bourges), Miso Music Portugal, Musica Strasbourg, Musiques Démesurées (Clermont-Ferrand), Musiques Inventives d’Annecy, Pacific New Music Festival (California), Sonorities (Belfast), and Sound and Fury (NYC). Ensembles who have performed her works include: Accroche Note, Arditti Quartet, Ensemble Aleph, Ensemble Alternance, Ensemble InterContemporain, Ensemble Itinéraire, Ensemble Vortex, Ives Quartet, New Millennium, and Talujon Quartet. She has composed music for the Ballet de l’Opéra National du Rhin, sound for short films, and is currently working on several multimedia projects. She has realized works in collaboration with the Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique (IRCAM), the Groupe de Recherches Musicales (GRM), La Muse en Circuit (Paris), and other centres of computer music research and production. She has studied composition with Ivan Fedele, Steven Mackey, Tristan Murail, Paul Koonce, Paul Lansky, and Thea Musgrave, and attended the courses of Richard Ayres, Franco Donatoni, Brian Ferneyhough, Beat Furrer, Jonathan Harvey, Michael Jarrell, Betsy Jolas, Helmut Lachenmann, David Lang, Pär Lindgren, Philippe Manoury, and Marco Stroppa. She participated in an experimental course in composition and live electronics at the Conservatorio di Bologna with Adriano Guarnieri and Alvise Vidolin, the One-Year Course in Composition and Computer Music of IRCAM (2004-5), and IRCAM’s Cursus II (2009-10), involving the production of a multimedia project. She holds a BM in Composition from Queens College, CUNY, a diploma from the Conservatoire de Strasbourg, and defended her PhD thesis at Princeton University in September 2008. She was previously an adjunct lecturer in ear training, harmony, and score-reading at the Aaron Copland School of Music, Queens College, CUNY, and has also taught as a “proctor” of music theory at Princeton. She has presented her music at various conferences and universities in the US and Europe, published and translated musicological articles, and served from 2007 to 2009 as a member of the jury of the Concorso Internazionale di Composizione of the Associazione Culturale Musicale EURITMIA. She has been awarded residencies by the Atlantic Center for the Arts, the Camargo Foundation, MacDowell Colony, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and was invited as Composer-in-residence of the Soundscape Festival (Italy) for 2010. She has received grants from organizations including the Aaron Copland Foundation, the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, and the Association pour la Création et la Diffusion Artistique, and prizes and distinctions from the Earplay Donald Aird Memorial Composition Competition, the Foundation Orchestra Association International Composition Competition, the International Composition Competition “…a Camillo Togni”, the IronWorks Composition Competition, the 35e Concours Internationaux de Musique et d’Art Sonore Electroacoustiques de Bourges, the city of Fontainebleau (American Academy Award), and CUNY (Karol Rathaus Composition Award, Mark Kyrkostas Memorial Composition Award, and Outstanding Freshman Award).