Faculty of Humanities at University of Manchester, awarded a Wilkinson Medal for Postgraduate Student of the Year to Diana, a PhD student in Electro-acoustic composition working at NOVARS.
Diana has achieved the highest levels of international distinction with her PhD compositional work and research (in the form of prizes, performances and residencies), and contributed hugely to broader activities in Music and the School of Arts, Histories and Cultures, (SAHC). Diana is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and a Dewar Arts Award.
Below a resume of her merits in such a short period of time!
Prizes
1. Anima Machina, First Prize 2007 SCRIME International Competition for Electroacoustic Composition. France.
2. Cipher, Honorable Mention 2007 Concurso Internacional de Música Eletroacústica de São Paulo. Brazil.
3. 2nd Prize: Espace du Son competition for the interpretation and diffusion of electroacoustic music. 2008, Brussels. Belgium.
Residencies
1. 2008 Orford Summer School. Montreal, Canada.
2. 2007 Atlantic Centre for the Arts Summer School. Florida, USA.
3. 2007 EMS (Electronic Music Studios) Stockholm, Sweden.
Interdisciplinary collaboration in SAHC
She has collaborated with students in Drama in the production sound and music for theatre works
1. The Yellow Wallpaper (2008) Electroacoustic score for a theatre production of The Yellow Wallpaper. Directed by Rob Drummer and performed at the Manchester Museum, 27th-29th May 2008.
2. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Performances 3rd, 4th, and 5th of December at Club Underground, UMIST Students' Union, Sackville Street, Manchester 7pm. Directed by Timothy Jones.
Teaching/leadership
1. She is the primary Student-Director of the MANTIS post-graduate Festival 7 - 8 March 2009
2. She also acted as assistant Director of the MANTIS Festival 31 Oct - 2 Nov 2008
3. Graduate Teaching Assistant for the University of Manchester
4. Freelance workshop leader for the Sonic Postcards project run by Sonic Arts Network (UK)
Performances
-Spindlesong I (2008), Acousmatic 8 channel.
* LICA-MANTIS Festival, Lancaster University, 1st March 2008.
* Digital Arts Festival, Valencia, Spain, 19th April 2008.
* Quarry Bank Mill, Manchester. September 2008.
-Chemistries (2007), for flute, violin, cello, accordion and electronic sounds.
-Commissioned and premiered by the Symposia ensemble, 9th December 2007, The Arches, Glasgow.
Pavakoothu (2007), for clarinet and electronics. Premiered by Esther Lamneck at the Novars Launch Festival, University of Manchester, 4th November 2007.
Cipher (2007), Acousmatic.
* MANTIS, Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama, Manchester, 11th March 2007.
* Sound Junction, University of Sheffield, 9th May 2007.
* CIMESP 2007 Finalists' Concert, 28th August 2007, Theater of SESC-Ipiranga, São Paulo, Brazil.
* 'Soundings', Reid Hall, Edinburgh, 3rd November 2007.
* 'Soundings', Reid Hall, Edinburgh, 1st February 2008.
* Petit Théâtre Mercelis, Brussels, 8th February 2008.
* Australasian Computer Music Festival, Sydney, July 2008.
Anima Machina (2006), Acousmatic.
* MANTIS, Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama, Manchester, 24th November 2006.
* BULO (Bristol University Loudspeaker Orchestra), RMA Students' Conference, 4th January 2007.
* SARC, Belfast, as part of the Sonorities Festival of Contemporary Music, April 2007.
* University of Costa Rica, 26th April.
* Prix SCRIME Finalists' Concert, AGORA, University of Bordeaux, 22nd May 2007.
* RMA 'Surrounded' Symposium, Keele University, 24th May 2007.
* SCRIME: La Halle des Chartrons de Bordeaux, 31st May/ 1st June 2007.
* EMS Conference, De Montfort University, Leicester, 14th June 2007.
* DMNR Conference, Leeds Metropolitan University, 7th-8th July 2007.
* Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe (ZKM), 7th July 2007.
* Futura Festival 2007, Paris, 17th August 2007, Salle Moulinages de l'Espace Soubeyran à Crest.
* Urban Ampitheatre, Atlantic Center for the Arts, Florida, 3rd August 2007.
* BBC Radio 3's 'Hear and Now', 25th August 2007.
* Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Electronique, Informatique et Radiocommunications de Bordeaux, Talence, 12th September 2007.
* Technische Universität Berlin, 18th October 2007, Concert curated by Kaho Cheung.
* Bristol University's Victoria Rooms, Lunchtime Concert 'Sonic Voyages', 24th October 2007.
* ‘MiniBEAST’, University of Birmingham, 31st October 2007.
* Radio France, ‘Electrain de nuit’, 17th December 2007.
* City University, London, 29th April 2008.
Congratulations to Diana!
