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Cecillia Arditto

Cecilia Arditto (b. 1966) studied music at the Conservatorio Julián Aguirre, Centro de Estudios  Avanzados en Música Contemporánea (CEAMC) and Conservatory of Amsterdam (cum laude). She took composition lessons in Argentina with Gabriel Valverde and Mariano Etkin in addition to analysis classes with Margarita Fernandez among others. Traveling a lot since then and seeing the world, her music always comes back to her first teachers. Even though having not met them, she considers Luigi Nono, Robert Bresson, and Cesar Aira as influences.  It is difficult to see those influences in her language, but it is certainly a powerful influence in the genesis of her music ideas, especially the non-musicians.

Prizes and stipendia: First Composition Prize CCRR-CEAMC 1996, "Buenos Aires No Duerme¨ Prize 1998, Mention Concurso Radio Clásica, Concurso de Composición CEAMC-Arditti String Quartet, Antorchas Scholarship for two consecutive years, Fondo Nacional de las Artes Prize, etc. Her music was selected for the "3rd Forum International de Jeunes Compositeurs de l'Ensemble l'Aleph, France, the "Boswil International Composition Seminar", Switzerland and the "Music at the Anthology Festival" in New York for two editions. She was also granted a residential grant at the Camargo residence for artists in France to work in her chamber opera "The daughter of the sorceress..." a project together with visual artist Luciana Arditto. Cecilia was guest composer at the Udk, Berlin in two opportunities, and was granted commissions from the NFPK, Holland, where she has lived since 2002. For the coming year she has been invited to Borealis festival in Norway and Festival Rümlingen in Switzerland.

Cecilia’s music has been performed in Latin-American, USA and Europe, and many of her pieces have been played by different ensembles. She regards having different versions of the same piece as a very interesting process to learn what remains and what changes in the fragile music notation system of which she is a fanatic.     

She is also involved in research on music theatre with her own foundation, Stichting planB, a multidisciplinary platform of international artists based on Holland. The foundation view research within the frame of concrete productions as being a complementary aspect of the same movement. They also strongly believe that working in the context of an affinity group brings isolated voices into a more consistent music language.