Alicia Reyes (Extremadura, 1996) is a pianist and composer with interests in analogue electronic music, free improvisation as a compositional tool and interdisciplinary artistic research projects.

 

She holds a degree in Music (Piano Performance) from the Conservatoire of Badajoz and subsequently completed a postgraduate course in New Compositional Techniques at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hamburg (Germany), a course with a special focus on new narratives in contemporary music. She then completed a Master's degree in Contemporary Composition and performance (CoPeCo), travelling for two years in different European countries.

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Her works have been performed at festivals such as ZKM/next_generation (Karlsruhe), at Blurred Edges and WE PRESENT (Hamburg), "The Toy Piano takes the stage" (Como), "Sommer in Stuttgart" Festival Neuer Musik or "neue musik in st.ruprecht" (Vienna), "Den elektroakustiska konsertserien" (Stockholm) or Hjorted Art And Music Festival (Hjorted, Sweden).

 

She has written music for theatre, dance/performance pieces, installations and has worked with instruments in hybrid set-ups. She combines her career as a pianist, improviser and composer with various ensembles such as SOA (experimental pop) and KFELD KOLLEKTIV (analog techno and noise), DAS LEMON & STUDIO NOCLIP creation groups, as well as with her personal projects.

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Her latest musical and multimedia theatre works focus on non-anthropocentric narratives related to ecological challenges. She currently pursues a docARTES PhD at the University of Leiden and works as a researcher affiliated with the MetamusicX cluster at the Orpheus institute in Ghent (Belgium).