Clara Iannotta

On 1 March, Clara Iannotta assumed her composing professorship at the Department of Composition, Electroacoustics, and Tonmeister Education.

Clara Iannotta is an Italian composer and curator.

Her works have been commissioned and performed by well-known ensembles, soloists, and orchestras including the Arditti Quartet, Quatuor Diotima, Ensemble intercontemporain, the JACK Quartet, Klangforum Wien, Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart, the Munich Chamber Orchestra, Ensemble Nikel, the WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne, the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, and the SWR Southwest German Radio Symphony Orchestra.

Iannotta was a grantee of the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program in 2013, following which she spent 2018–19 in residence at the Villa Medici (French Academy in Rome) and won numerous prizes including the 2018 Ernst von Siemens Composers’ Prize, the 2018 International Paul Hindemith Prize, the 2019 Premio Una Vita nella Musica – Giovani, and the 2021 Premio Abbiati.

Her three portrait albums A Failed Entertainment (Edition RZ), Earthing (Wergo), and Moult (Kairos) placed on the German Record Critics’ “Quarterly Critics’ Choice” lists.

She is a member of the Akademie der Künste (Academy of Arts), Berlin and has served as artistic director of the contemporary music festival Bludenzer Tage zeitgemäßer Musik since 2014. Her music is published by Edition Peters.