Daniela Terranova

Daniela Terranova is an Italian composer working in the area of concert music, opera, and extended sonic environments.  Her recent work revolves around the sound substance conceived as  ‘sonic dramaturgy’, strongly linked to an exploration of the matter the instruments are made of. She studied composition in  Italy with  Azio  Corghi and attended academies and masterclasses throughout  Europe.  Among  the  most  relevant,  a  postgraduate  course  in  Composition  with  Beat Furrer  at  Universität  für  Musik  und  Darstellende  Kunst  in  Graz  and  a  postgraduate  course  in electroacoustic composition at the mdw (Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst) in Wien.Her work has won several national and international competitions,  including:  'SIAE  –  Classici di Oggi'  (a  new commission project in partnership with  Orchestra della  Toscana);  I  prize at the international competition 'Gianni Bergamo Classic Music Award' (Swiss-Lugano); Special Mention for the  Italian  Music:  'Premio  SIAE'  (International  Composition  Contest  'Valentino  Bucchi  Prize', Rome);     the prize  'Nuova  Musica alla  Fenice'  (Gran  Teatro  La  Fenice,  Venice);  I  prize at the International   Composition   Contest   'Vieri   Tosatti'   (Rome);   the prize   'Monte Dei   Paschi di Siena'  (Accademia  Chigiana,  Siena);  the prize  'Franco  Donatoni  International  Meeting for  Young Composers'  (Divertimento  Ensemble,  Milan);  'Kinderszenen  Prize'  (CIDIM,  Rome);  the prize ICOMS (Turin); the National Prize of Arts. Her  music  has  been  performed  at  many  festivals  and  concert  seasons:  IRCAM's  Concert  Season; London   Sinfonietta's   Concert   Season;   Wiener   Konzerthaus;   Wien   Modern   Music   Festival; Ultraschall  Berlin  -  Festival  für  Neue  Musik;  Biennale  Musica  2019,  Venice;  Foundaciòn  BBVA, Madrid; Festival Mixtur and Festival Barcelona Modern; Teatros del Canal, Madrid; Teatro Central, Seville; Budapest Music Center; Time of Music Festival, Vitasaari (sponsored by Ulysses network with  the  support  of  the  Ernst  von  Siemens  Music  Foundation);  Musikaliska  Concert  Hall, Stockholm; Italian Academy of the Columbia University, New York; Festival Vértice, Mexico City; Royal  Welsh  College  of  Music  and  Drama,  Cardiff;  Festival  Styria  Cantat  VI,  Graz-Helmut  List Halle;  Universität  Mozarteum,  Salzburg;  International  Week  of  New  Music-SIMN,  Bucharest; Son[UT]opìas  project,  Universidade  de  Santiago  de  Compostela;  Tallin  Chamber  Music  Festival; Fidelio Trio Season, Dublin; Festival Traiettorie, Parma; Accademia Filarmonica di Bologna; Gran Teatro La Fenice; Auditorium Parco della Musica, Rome; Teatro Dal Verme, Milan; OPV (Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto) Concert Season, Padua; La Verdi Symphony Season, Milan; Divertimento Ensemble's  Concert  Season,  Milan;  festival  'Play  it!',  Florence;  Festival  Internazionale  della  Valle d'Itria; International Concerts Season of Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana; Festival of Cadiz. She graduated with honors in Classical Languages and Literature at the University of Trieste, and in 2015  completed her international Ph.D. program in Audiovisual  Studies at the  University of  Udine (in collaboration with  Université  Sorbonne  Nouvelle  –  Paris  3),  with a  dissertation entitled  'Myth and Music in the Contemporary Musical Production for Theatre'.Her music is published by the editor Suvini Zerboni - Sugarmusic (Milan) and has been broadcast by several radios such as  BBC  Radio  3  (in the contemporary music program  ‘Hear and  Now), Radio3 Suite, RSI, ORF, Rbb Kultur, Deutschlandfunk Kultur. She teaches Composition in Italian Conservatories.