I’m a composer, performer and music teacher. I was born in a small village in the Italian Alps, near Lake Garda and I studied Music Composition and Philosophy in Verona, Venice and Würzburg.

 

I’ve written and produced instrumental music for various line-ups (from solo instruments to ensembles and orchestra) and electronics. I like to collaborate with other artists and musicians and the outcome of these collaborations was presented for example at documenta fifteen Kassel, ADAF 2024 Athens, Vienna Shorts 2024, Akademie der Künste Berlin.

 

I also work as a piano teacher in music schools where I try to teach a relaxed and natural instrumental technique that combines body awareness and musical sensitivity in a playful way. I am interested in ecology, colonialism, art and community, sampling and remixing, non-human music, and cooking.

 

Work

• Januar 2022 – 2023: Kontraklang. Concert series of experimental music in Berlin | Production
manager and curator 

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•  Januar 2020 – today: Westerland Musikschule, Berlin-Pankow | Piano teacher

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•  December 2019 - October 2021: Project “Die Maßnahme 2020” | Choir Conductor

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•  December 2019 – today: Musikschule Jüttner, Berlin | Piano teacher

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• 01.06.2016 – 31.07.2018: Music pedagogue, Zebra e.V. Kindergarten, Köln / Organization of music workshops and activities for young children (1 to 6 years of age) in a bilingual(Italian/German) kindergarten

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• 2012 – 2016: Private Music Teacher / Piano, keyboards, music theory, ear training, pop guitar, singing (pop, blues, jazz)

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• 2008 – 2011: Conductor of the Discalced Carmelites Choir (Coro dei Carmelitani Scalzi), Venice

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•  2012 – present: Freelance Composer

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Education

•  2003 – 2006: University of Verona: Laurea Triennale (Bachelor of Arts Degree) in Philosophy, summa cum laude

• 2006 – 2009: University Ca’ Foscari, Venezia. Laurea Specialistica (Master Degree) in Philosophy: Theoretical Philosophy, of Art and Communication, summa cum laude

• 2002 – 2012: Conservatorio Statale di Musica “Benedetto Marcello”, Venezia, Diploma in Composition, 10/10 

• February – August 2012: Hochschule für Musik, Würzburg. Composition Course.

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Publications, Recordings

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• La elaboracion del mito de Prometeo en la obra musical de Luigi Nono, in La Torre del Virrey Revista de Estudios Culturales, #4, Winter 2007/2008, L’Eliana, Valencia; spanish translation by Amparo Zacarés Pamblanco and Maria Bayarri Rossellò.

•  Ninnananna, ArsPublica Edizioni, Massa Carrara, 2011

• Sulla morte di Ludovico II di Baviera, ArsPublica Edizioni, Massa Carrara, 2012.

•  Neve, in the CD “Nuova Musica alla Fenice” Teatro la Fenice, Venezia, 2013

•  Esercizio di levitazione, in the CD “...und sie dreht sich doch!”. Duo Steimel-Mücksch, Thorofon

•  Bella Musica, Bühl, 2016

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Courses, masterclasses, residencies

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• 15. – 21.03.2010: 9èmes Rencontres internationales de composition musicale, Cergy- Pontoise, France

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• 06. – 12.09.2010: Semaine de Jardin, Villa Romana, Firenze, Italy (Artist in Residence)

• 05. – 16.02.2011: Impuls Academy for Contemporary Music, Graz, Austria (Masterclass)

• 14. – 28.07.2012: Internationales Ferienkurse für Neue Musik, Darmstadt, Germany (Summer Course) 

• 02. – 16.08.2014: Internationales Ferienkurse für Neue Musik, Darmstadt, Germany (Summer Course)

• April 2018: ICA Institute for Contemporary Art, Yerevan, Armenia (Artist in Residence)

• April 2019: International Centre for Composers, Visby, Sweden (Composer in Residence)

• 01.01 – 30.06.2021: Stipendium “Neustart Kultur”, Musikfonds e.V., Die Beauftragte des Bundes für Kultur und Medien 

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Concerts and performances

• 11.07.2014: Teatro la Fenice, Venezia, Canzona da bateo (da Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari), for cello violin and piano, Ex Novo Ensemble

• 10.03.2015: Loophole, Berlin, Solo#1

• 19.06.2015: Pizdetz, Oslo, Solo#2

• 04.07.2015: Echokammer, Augsburg, Solo#3

• 07.09.2015: Mme Claude, Berlin, Solo#4

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• 23.02.2016: BKA Theater, Berlin, Unerhörte Musik, Esercizio di levitazione. Duo Steimel-Mücksch (Olivia Steimel: Akkordeon, Josef Mücksch: guitar)

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• 13.04.2018: Technopolis, Athens. εξ αποστάσεως. Riccardo Vaglini: piano

• 26.06.2018: ICA Institute for Contemporary Art, Yerevan. Concert and Artist’s Talk

• 19.03.2019: BKA Theater, Berlin, Unerhörte Musik, Sic transit. Olivia Steimel: Akkordeon, Josef Mücksch: guitar, Diego Ramos: Violin

• 20.09.2020, Panke Culture, Berlin, no place like home, sound installation / sound performance. Miriam Momsen, Fatih Ermete: performers. Supported by: Kultur Mitte Berlin, Senat Berlin

• 25.09.2020, Galerie Wedding, Berlin. Das Büro für musikalisches Übermaß, Workshop+Installation

• 15.08.2021: Haus der Statistik, Berlin,Terra Nullius. Edoardo Micheli, Astra Irene Susi: Performance and composition. Supported by Musikfonds e.V., and De la Motte Stiftung

• 17.-18.09.2021: Strandbad Tegelsee, Berlin. CIEGXS. Derya Durmaz: Performance, Nicole Kramm: Photos, Marcelo F. Lazcano and Edoardo Micheli: composition | Supported by Projektfonds Urbane Praxis, in coop. with Strandburgtheater and the Strandbad Tegelsee

• 24.10.2021: Schwartzsche Villa, Berlin. Transatlantic Tapes. Olivia Steimel: Accordion.

• 06.11.2021: depot.K, Freiburg. Transatlantic Tapes. Olivia Steimel: Accordion

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• 21.01.2022: Silent Green Quartier, Berlin. a playlist for the wretched #1. Opening Night, Vorspiel Transmediale und CTM Festival

• 18.06.2022 - 25.09.2022: Hafenstraße 76, Kassel. Music and sound design for Cam-Anh Luong’s (*foundationClass Collective) video installation “Treffpunkt: der Vulkan”. documenta fifteen

• 24.07.2022: Strandbad Tegelsee, Berlin. “The Noise is Changing: a creative music lab on geophonies and technophonies in the shifting soundscape of the anthropocene”. “Erde Workshops”, New Compasses, Tools and Alliances conceived in collaboration with Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten (Amsterdam) and WHW (Zagreb)

• 21-22.01.2023: Neue Nachbarschaft Moabit, Berlin. JARDIN D[‘H]IVERS. A project by visual artist Cẩm-Anh Lương, musician Edoardo Micheli and members of Neue Nachbarschaft/Moabit, inspired by the statement by EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell: "Europe is a garden, the rest of the world is a jungle”

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• 23-24.06.2023: Carnival of Algorithmic Culture, Toronto. Music and sound design for the Cẩm-Anh Lương’s video installation TrustIn_AI

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• 20.08.2023: Akademie der Künste, Berlin. Lecture: Klangökosysteme und Zuhörgemeinschaften. Syposium “Time to Listen 2023”

• 12.11.2023: Villa Elisabeth, Berlin. my myself and the other: I. An experiment in collective composition with Eiko Tsukamoto and Lucien Danzeisen, played by Damir Bacikin (trumpet), Yuri Matsuzaki (flute) and Adam Weisman (percussion). Supported by Musikfonds e.V

• 13.11.2023 -19.11.2023: Hải An Gallery, Hồ Chí Minh City, Việt Nam. Music and sound design for the video installation by Cẩm-Anh Lương: TrustIn_AI with dance performance by Lyon Đạt
Nguyễn

• 16.-26.05.2024. Athens. motheroid”, official selection. Edoardo Micheli: music and production, Anke Schiemann: digital animation. Athens Digital Art Festival 2024

• 29.-30.05.2024, Vienna. “motheroid”, official festival selection. Vienna Shorts

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