Fernanda Aoki Navarro

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Fernanda Aoki Navarro
Born
São Paulo, Brasil
Occupation(s)Composer, multimedia artist
Years active2002–present
Website www.fernandanavarro.net

Fernanda Aoki Navarro is a composer, multimedia artist and educator. Her music has been performed by major ensembles and soloist, her instrumental music, electronic works, and installations had been performed and exhibited in the United States, Latin-America, and Europe. Her works have been performed across the globe by many renowned ensembles including the New York Philharmonic [1] and the International Contemporary Ensemble. [2]

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She's also engaged with promoting experimental music, working as a producer and curator of such concerts and music festivals as Festival Internacional de Música Experimental, [3] and PRISMS Festival. [4]

Education

Fernanda was born in Brazil and is based in the United States. She studied Music Composition at University of São Paulo, University of California Santa Cruz, and at University of California San Diego (PhD), [5] where she worked with Roger Reynolds, Rand Steiger, Steven Schick, and Katharina Rosenberger.[ citation needed ]

Career

Navarro joined the faculty at Arizona State University in 2020 as an assistant professor of Music Composition [6] within the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts. [7]

She was a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (2019–20) at Harvard University, [8] and an artist-in-residence at Yaddo (2022). [9] She was a finalist of the Charles Ives Prize for the American Academy of Arts and Letters (2023).[ citation needed ]

Performances of Navarro's work include those with the International Contemporary Ensemble, New York Philharmonic, [10] [11] [12] New World Symphony, [13] Phoenix Symphony Orchestra, [14] Talea Ensemble, Yarn/Wire, [15] Callithumpian Consort, [16] Platypus Ensemble, [17] Fonema Consort, [18] Nadar Ensemble, Ensemble Paramirabo, [19] Accordant Commons, [20] Fulcrum Point New Music Project, [21] and San Francisco Contemporary Music Players [22]

Works

Ensemble

Solo

Electroacoustic

Installation / performance art / visual

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  16. ↑ "March 9, 2020 Concert". The Callithumpian Consort. Retrieved 2023-11-09.
  17. ↑ "Platypus Ensemble - 2023". www.platypus-ensemble.com. Retrieved 2023-11-09.
  18. ↑ "Ensemble". Fonema Consort. Retrieved 2023-11-09.
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