Clara Iannotta
Clara Iannotta, born in Rome in 1983, studied the flute at the Santa Cecilia Conservatory in Rome and began a career as a performer in several ensembles. She went on to study composition at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Milan (2006-2010) and then at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse in Paris (2010-2012). In 2010-2011, she completed the Cursus 1 in composition and computer music at Ircam. She is currently preparing a doctorate in composition at Harvard under the supervision of Chaya Czernowin.
She is artistic director of the Bludenzer Tage zeitgemäßer Musik festival for the period 2014-2024. In 2018-2019, she is in residence at the Villa Médicis to work on her first piece for orchestra and her third string quartet. In 2022 and 2023, she was co-artistic director of the Klangspuren Schwaz festival. Since 2023, Clara Iannotta has been professor of composition at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna.
Clara Iannotta has received commissions from Radio France (for Présences and Alla Breve), the French State, the Ensemble intercontemporain, the Westdeutschen Rundfunk and Musica Femina München, among others. Her music has been performed by ensembles such as 2e2m, Ensemble Orchestral Contemporain, Ensemble Recherche, Multilatérale, Neue Vocalsolisten, Quatuor Arditti, Quatuor Diotima, Trio K/D/M, and at festivals including ECLAT Stuttgart, Wittener Tage für Neue Musik, Festival d'Automne à Paris and Présences.
In 2018, Clara Iannotta received the Ernst von Siemens Composers' Prize, the Hindemith-Preis, and the Prix Francis et Mica Salabert awarded by SACEM. In 2019, she received the Una Vita nella Musica - Giovani prize, awarded by La Fenice (Venice, Italy). In 2022, she was made a member of the Akademie der Künste in Berlin.
Clara Iannotta becomes Artistic Director of the Festival d'Automne in 2024 and will co-sign its first edition in 2025.
Cet automne
Clara Iannotta, Chris Swithinbank I listen to the inward through my bones
Clara Iannotta's project is to listen to the city and its various life-forms, in a space, that of a church, which a priori preserves those inside from the noises outside. She does so by means of an electronic installation designed for the acoustics of the Church of Saint-Eustache, a building with a rich musical tradition, ranging from from Rameau to Berlioz.
Clara Iannotta echo from afar (II) ; a stir among the stars, a making way ; Œuvre nouvelle
What are the relationships between a spider's growth, the sound experience of radiotherapy and the lights and clicking sounds of old-fashioned slide viewers? The work of Clara Iannotta, of which this concert offers a journey through its recent years, is a mode of self-knowledge, or an autobiography in which sound and body are intimately linked.
Clara Iannotta, Dmitri Chostakovich, Franz Schubert
Spanning three centuries, these three works speak of self-care, the incessant quest for new languages, crisis and renewal, and the inherent element of wandering in our lives. And of the landscape in which each point, equidistant from the centre, reveals itself to a traveller who moves around there without moving forward.
Clara Iannotta au Festival d'Automne