About Clara Iannotta

Born in Rome in 1983, Clara Iannotta has studied at the Conservatories of Milan and Paris, at IRCAM, and at Harvard University with Alessandro Solbiati, Frédéric Durieux, and Chaya Czernowin.
Recent commissions include works written for Arditti Quartet, Trio Catch, Quatuor Diotima, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Ensemble 2e2m, JACK Quartet, Klangforum Wien, Neue Vocalsolisten, Münchener Kammerorchester, Ensemble Nikel, WDR Symphony Orchestra, among others.
Iannotta has been a resident fellow of the Berliner Künstlerprogramm des DAAD in 2013, Villa Medici (Académie de France à Rome) in 2018–19, and the recipient of several prizes including the Ernst von Siemens Composers’ Prize and Hindemith-Preis 2018, Una Vita nella Musica – Giovani 2019, Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik, Bestenliste 2/2016, for her first portrait CD "A Failed Entertainment".
Since 2014, Iannotta has been the artistic director of the Bludenzer Tage zeitgemäßer Musik. Her music is published by Edition Peters. She lives and works in Berlin.