Patricia Alessandrini

Patricia Alessandrini (born 1970) is an American composer, sound artist, and musicologist. A 2022 Guggenheim Fellow and 2024 MacDowell Fellow, Alessandrini specializes in electronic music and sound art. She is also an academic who specializes in the interdisciplinary study of music and technology, having worked in the faculty of Stanford University and Goldsmiths, University of London. Early life and music career Patricia Alessandrini was born in 1970 in the United States. She attended Bologna Conservatory, Conservatoire de Strasbourg, and IRCAM; Ivan Fedele, Tristan Murail, and Thea Musgrave were her composition teachers. As an artist, Alessandrini specializes in electronic music and sound art, as well as social and political issues and the reexamination of canonical works. In 2023, her album Leçons de ténèbres, performed by Riot Ensemble, was released from Huddersfield Contemporary Records; In a 2024 review for the Edinburgh Music Review, Simon Barrow praised her piece “Il y a plus d’eau que prévu sur la lune” as “cleverly crafted”. She was awarded a MacDowell Fellowship in 2024. She is a 2024-2025 Rieman and Baketel Fellow for Music at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute. Academic c