dBâle electronic music festival basel
frau musica electronica
21 - 23 April 2010
Schwarzwaldallee 200
4058 Basel
Diana Simpson
Diana
Simpson initially studied flute performance as an undergraduate
student at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow,
where she was first introduced to electroacoustic composition by Dr.
Alistair MacDonald. She went on to specialise in electroacoustic
composition, graduating with both a Postgraduate Diploma and Master of
Music (both with distinction). She recently completed doctoral study at
the University of Manchester, where she was supervised by Dr. David
Berezan, and funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and a
Dewar Arts Award. In her final year of study she was awarded the
University’s Wilkinson Medal for Postgraduate of the Year in the Faculty
of Humanities. She is currently a lecturer in music technology at
Kingston University, London.
Her works have been performed throughout the UK and internationally,
across Europe and in South, Central and North America. Work has also
been broadcast on Swedish National Radio, Radio France, and BBC Radio 3.
Her works have been recognised in a number of international competitions
including Insulae Electronicae
International Competition of Electroacoustic Music (2nd prize, 2004),
CIMESP (International Electroacoustic Contest of Săo Paulo, Public Prize
2005, Honourable Mention 2007), the Bourges Competition of
Electroacoustic Music (Residence Prize 2006), SCRIME (Prix SCRIME 2007),
2nd prize in
the ‘Space of Sound’ (L’Espace du Son)
Diffusion Competition 2008, Prix Destellos (2009) and Música Viva (Prizewinner,
2009). She has been a composer-in-residence at CEMI (Center for
Experimental Music and Intermedia) at the University of North Texas,
Atlantic Center for the Arts in Florida, the Institute for
Electroacoustic Music in Sweden, Orford Center for the Arts, Montreal
and will be a composer-in-residence at the Destellos Foundation,
Argentina in Summer 2010.