Borealis Ung Komponist
Daiyen Jone Castro is a musician, composer and educator from Cuba, based in Bergen. She developed her interest in music at the age of six and began her formal training at the Elementary Conservatory of Music as a flutist a couple of years later. She went on to earn a bachelor’s degree in classical flute in Cuba, before she moved to Norway where she studied jazz, composition and music pedagogy at the Grieg Academy Department of Music in Bergen.
The various projects Daiyen is involved in range from music drawing inspiration from her roots such as Cuban music, Latin jazz and world music, to research and experimentation in free improvisation, electronica, ambient and ‘fourth world music’. As a music creator, she is interested in exploring timbre, texture, and effects, experimenting with the use of silence and rhythm, and creating contrasts in the soundscape.
Daiyen is involved in constellations such as NH3, Heavy Astro and To You They Are Birds, To Me They Are Voices in the Forest, and is an active part og Bergen’s culture scene.