Paola Prestini

Paola Prestini (born ) is a composer of classical music. The New York Times referred to Prestini as “the enterprising composer and impresario” and a “human resources alchemist”. She studied there under Samuel Adler, Robert Beaser, and Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. She was also a PD Soros Fellow. Most recently, in 2016, she was named by Musical America, one of 30 “Innovators” of the year. Career In 1999, while still a student, Prestini co-founded VisionIntoArt, an interdisciplinary arts company that established the annual 21c Liederabend festival, which went on to be performed at Disney Hall with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and at BAM’s 2013 Next Wave Festival (in collaboration with Beth Morrison Projects), the Colorado Project (for which the New York Times called her music “downright gorgeous”) premiered at Houston’s Da Camera Series, The Met Museum, Stanford University and the Kennedy Center, and a variety of other multimedia collaborations. Her Hubble Cantata was performed in the largest to date communal VR experience at Bric’s Celebrate Brooklyn; the New Yorker said of the event “six thousand of us together, in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, were floating around the Orion Nebula…Cresc