Paola Balsamo Prestini, Composer

"Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone..." Borges

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Paola Prestini’s music takes the listener on a journey through different life experiences, creating an aural and visual map of the different countries and cultures that have inspired her.These travels sonically reflect the impact that collective identities, cultures and values have when they meet and dissolve in a person whose artistic roots are the collective sum of many parts.

This culminates in a romantic vision told in the form of calls to prayers, spirituals, narrations, and electronic resonances that come together with visuals to create Prestini’s unique voice.

“Straightforward melodicism augmented with electronic resonance-a happy adaptation of minimalism's more sensual effects.”
Steve Smith nightafternight.blogs.com




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2007-2008
June 07 Sound Res, Lecce, Italy

July/August 07 VisionIntoArt CD Recording, NY, NY

08.09.07 Dave Eggar, Cellist, Hornby Chamber Music Festival, BC, Canada

08.12.07 Jeffrey Zeigler, cellist, Lake Tahoe, Incline Village, NV

09.07.07 Awakening Program, Kronos Quartet, College Park, MD

09.14.07 Awakening Program, Kronos Quartet, Duke University

October Curating at the Stone, NYC John Zorn's venue

10.02.07 VisionIntoArt, Joe's Pub, NY, NY

10.06.07 Feature at the Stone, NY, NY

10.13-20.07 VisionIntoArt at BEMUS, Belgrade, Serbia

11.14.07 Awakening Program, Kronos Quartet, Zurich, Switzerland

12.15.07 WNYC Ear to Ear interview

1.13-14.08 VisionIntoArt at PS 122, NY, NY

January 15-May 28, 2008 Los Angeles and New York City, Recording and Mixing for Tzadik CD

2.09.08 Awakening Program, Kronos Quartet, Emory University, Atlanta, GA

4.03.08 Awakening Program, Kronos Quartet, Krannert Center, Urbana Champaigne, IL

4.17 & 18.08 Immigrant Voices, American Composers Orchestra, New York, NY

4.25.08 French Embassy, Verge and Aleph Ensemble, Washington, D.C.

5.08-09.08 VisionIntoArt at Dyagilev Club, Moscow, Russia

1.27.09 Sarah Wolfson, soprano, Concert Artist Guild Commission, Carnegie Hall, New York, NY

2.19-22.09 Tucson Symphony, Tucson, Arizona
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Paola Prestini, composer
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