Evelyn Ficarra
A dual citizen (UK/USA), Evelyn Ficarra was born in California in but has spent most of her life in Britain. She studied composition with Jonathan Harvey and Peter Wiegold at the University of Sussex, receiving her MA in 1986, and also studied at the National Film and Television School, graduating in Screen Music in 1994. She then had several years teaching and freelancing as a composer and sound editor, before returning to academia in 2005, having been awarded a Fellowship from the University of California, Berkeley, where she is currently working towards a PhD.
Ficarra's work has received support from the Arts Council of Great Britain, the Arts Council of England, the London Arts Board, the Sonic Arts Network, the Ralph Vaughan Williams Trust, the Hinrichsen Foundation and Poems on the Underground. She has had composer residencies at the International Electronic Music Studio (EMS) in Stockholm (1993) and the Djerassi Resident Artists Program (2004.) Her works have been short-listed for the Prix Noroit, Bourges and Luigi Russolo competitions. Her music has been heard in various formats (in concerts, theatres, music festivals, film festivals, television and radio broadcasts) in the UK, Europe, the Americas and the Far East. Her solo CD Frantic Mid-Atlantic was released by Sargasso in 1999.
Ficarra is especially interested in cross-arts work and electro-acoustic media, and in addition to her concert works has written music for dance, theatre, film and radio. Notable collaborators include Ian Spink (with Second Stride Dance Theatre , 1988, and the Dangerous Talk 1997 Choreodrome Project); Jerwood Award winning choreographer Sarah Fahie (in the company she and Ficarra started together, naked fish productions, 2002-continuing) and director Sue Buckmaster, with theatre-rites, on Shopworks (London International Festival of Theatre/Vienna Festival 2003) and In One Ear (Lyric Hammersmith and UK Tour, 2004/6.)
Recent/notable projects include Rendition, for prepared piano, harpsichord and video, a collaboration with Keynote+ (Kate Ryder and Jane Chapman) and photographer/video artist Ian Winters, which premiered at the BMIC's Cutting Edge Festival in 2006; Submarine Revisited selected for the Unknown Public's Critical Notice project 2007 and London Cries (an exploration of current London street cries) for chamber group, solo voices and tape, commissioned by Poems on the Underground and the Apollo Chamber Orchestra and premiered in the City of London Festival in 2002, and subsequently performed in a British Council concert at the Hanoi Opera House in Vietnam, 2003.
A dual citizen (UK/USA), Evelyn Ficarra was born in California in but has spent most of her life in Britain. She studied composition with Jonathan Harvey and Peter Wiegold at the University of Sussex, receiving her MA in 1986, and also studied at the National Film and Television School, graduating in Screen Music in 1994. She then had several years teaching and freelancing as a composer and sound editor, before returning to academia in 2005, having been awarded a Fellowship from the University of California, Berkeley, where she is currently working towards a PhD.
Ficarra's work has received support from the Arts Council of Great Britain, the Arts Council of England, the London Arts Board, the Sonic Arts Network, the Ralph Vaughan Williams Trust, the Hinrichsen Foundation and Poems on the Underground. She has had composer residencies at the International Electronic Music Studio (EMS) in Stockholm (1993) and the Djerassi Resident Artists Program (2004.) Her works have been short-listed for the Prix Noroit, Bourges and Luigi Russolo competitions. Her music has been heard in various formats (in concerts, theatres, music festivals, film festivals, television and radio broadcasts) in the UK, Europe, the Americas and the Far East. Her solo CD Frantic Mid-Atlantic was released by Sargasso in 1999.
Ficarra is especially interested in cross-arts work and electro-acoustic media, and in addition to her concert works has written music for dance, theatre, film and radio. Notable collaborators include Ian Spink (with Second Stride Dance Theatre , 1988, and the Dangerous Talk 1997 Choreodrome Project); Jerwood Award winning choreographer Sarah Fahie (in the company she and Ficarra started together, naked fish productions, 2002-continuing) and director Sue Buckmaster, with theatre-rites, on Shopworks (London International Festival of Theatre/Vienna Festival 2003) and In One Ear (Lyric Hammersmith and UK Tour, 2004/6.)
Recent/notable projects include Rendition, for prepared piano, harpsichord and video, a collaboration with Keynote+ (Kate Ryder and Jane Chapman) and photographer/video artist Ian Winters, which premiered at the BMIC's Cutting Edge Festival in 2006; Submarine Revisited selected for the Unknown Public's Critical Notice project 2007 and London Cries (an exploration of current London street cries) for chamber group, solo voices and tape, commissioned by Poems on the Underground and the Apollo Chamber Orchestra and premiered in the City of London Festival in 2002, and subsequently performed in a British Council concert at the Hanoi Opera House in Vietnam, 2003.
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