Irma Catalina Alvarez
Irma Catalina Alvarez was born in Cuenca, Spain in 1980. She began her music studies at the Conservatory of Music of Cuenca, where she obtained primary and medium degree in music and piano. Later, she read music at the Real Conservatory of Music of Atocha in Madrid, specialised in Contemporary Music Composition and Electroacoustic Music Composition. Additionally, she studied Philosophy at the Complutense University in Madrid and sound technician studies (F.I.P).
Further training includes music composition courses with Leonardo Balada, Jose Manuel Lopez Lopez, Jose Maria Sanchez Verdu, Salvatore Sciarrino. Also, in areas of music composition for visual image and theatre, she extended studies with Pepe Nieto and Frans Winter. Furthermore, she undertook lessons in Electroacoustic Composition with Jose Luis Carles, Gabriel Brncic, Eduardo Polonio and Emiliano del Cerro. Irma also undertook courses in music analysis with Tomas Marco, Alicia Diaz de la Fuente, Wolfgang Rathert , Yvan Nommick, Jorg Wyttenbach, Ana Vega Toscano, Jesus Villarojo, Bruno Nettl and Patrick McCreless.
She is co-fundator of the interdisciplinary art group ‘Miseria y Hambre’ a and co-director of the ‘Encounters Festival’, an annual music-and-art festival in Cuenca, Spain.
She has worked as a composer, performer, arranger and musical director for theatrical plays and she has composed music for short films, dance and other type of performances.
Her music both acoustic and electroacoustic has been performed has been widely performed in music Festivals in Spain and Italy.
In 2009-10, Irma pursued a MusM degree in Electroacoustic Composition at University of Manchester and after that, she started PhD studies at the NOVARS Research Centre, studying under the supervision of Dr Ricardo Climent.
Research Interests
Composition (instrumental and mixed media), Music theater.
Contact
Email: irmacatalinaalvarez@hotmail.com
Personal web: http://www.encuentroscuenca.com/2007/MiseriayHambre.html
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