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Clara Iannotta (b. 1983 in Rome) is particularly interested in music as an existential, physical experience. She studied at the Milan and Paris Conservatories, IRCAM and Harvard University. Her music has been commissioned and performed by renowned ensembles and orchestras, including Quatuor Diotima, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Klangforum Wien, Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart, Münchener Kammerorchester and WDR Symphony Orchestra. She was a fellow of the Berliner Künstlerprogramm (2013) and Villa Medici (2018-19) and the recipient of several awards including the 2018 Ernst von Siemens Composers’ Prize and the 2018 Hindemith Prize. Her portrait albums A Failed Entertainment and Earthing were selected by the German Record Critics’ Awards for their Quarterly Critics’ Choices 2/2016 and 4/2020. Iannotta was previously artistic director of the Bludenzer Tage zeitgemäßer Musik and is joint artistic director of Klangspuren Schwaz from 2022. She lives and works in Berlin.