CURRICULUM
VITAE
— Beatrice Martini
Born 1984 in Florence (I). Lives and works in Berlin (D).
— Education
2008
MA degree with honours in Harp performance, Conservatory of Music “Arrigo Boito”, Parma.
Music & Intuition + Music & more (Bewegungsimprovisation und Musik): workshops and performances held by Markus Stockhausen, Palucca Schule, Dresden.
2004
BA degree with honours in Harp performance, Conservatory of Music “Arrigo Boito”, Parma.
2002–2005
Studies of Architecture, University of Florence.
1988–2007
Harp and musical studies. She started approaching the instrument at the age of four with Antonella Mantovani; then, she studied with Emanuela Degli Esposti, Professor of Harp at the Conservatory of Music “Arrigo Boito” in Parma, attended several masterclasses since 1992 with Judith Liber, Principal Solo Harpist with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and partecipated in courses held by Ursula Holliger and by Ieuan Jones, Professor of Harp at the Royal College of Music, London.
1987
Musical propaedeutics courses for kids.
— Major prizes and grants
2007
Music grant, Conservatory of Music “Arrigo Boito”, Parma.
2006
National Prize of the Arts 2006, competition promoted by the Ministry of University and Research: I° prize
2004
Qualification at the Competition for the Orchestra specialization course at Accademia d’Arti e Mestieri dello Spettacolo, Teatro alla Scala, Milan (I).
1998
VIII National Competition ‘Riviera della Versilia’ : I° prize
1995
International Music Performance Competition ‘Rovere d’Oro’: II° prize
IX National harp Competition ‘Victor Salvi’, High Specialization Music Academy, Saluzzo (I): II° prize
— Selected live performances
2008
Cut-up, Brighton Festival 2008, Brighton (UK).
Performance for harp, percussions, electronics and the monumental pipe organ of the Dome Concert Hall together with Robert Lippok, Brighton Festival 2008, Brighton (UK).
Malmaison, Turin (I).
Multi-disciplinary performance for two actresses, one harpist-performer, field recordings and videos.
2007
Auditorium Parco della Musica, Rome (I).
Performance of The Crown of Ariadne (1979) by Raymond Murray Schafer, a composition where the soloist plays harp and a whole set of percussions (like three bells, triangles, cymbals, woodblocks and more) at the same time.
Soundmetak, Milan (I).
Harp and percussions performance at the "vintage / collector instruments and musical objects shop" run by Xabier Iriondo.
Hydrology, TANZherbst 2007, Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden (D).
Multidisciplinary work as harpist, percussionist, sound artist and performer for the choreography by Alessandra Fabbri.
2005
Villa Montalvo, Florence (I).
Piccoli sogni di carta contro la guerra (Little paper dreams against war).
Harp composition written and played for the homonymous short video and harp recital in the presence of Tadatoshi Akiba, Major of Hiroshima.
— Selected exhibitions and sound installations
2005
Geografia Sonora, Fabbrica Europa Festival, Florence (I).
Sound installation created during the homonymous workshop at Centro Tempo Reale.
Confini portatili (Portable borders), Visualworks Festival, University of Florence (I).
Photographic project, installation and interactive performance with polaroids.
3 meters, 6 minutes, 12 ways to listen to white sounds, European Architecture Students Assembly 2005, Bergün (CH).
Sound art performance and installation.
— Selected Lectures
2008
Alice Giles, Sequenza II e la musica di Luciano Berio (Alice Giles, Sequenza II and Luciano Berio’s music), Conservatory of Music “Arrigo Boito”, Parma (I). Lecture and interview (in English and Italian).
2007
Henriette Renié: la letteratura in musica (Henriette Renié: literature in music), Camac Days, Rome (I). Lecture and concert (in Italian).
2006
Henriette Renié: poesia e racconto in musica (Henriette Renié: poetry and tale in music), XIX Cremona Mondomusica, Cremona (I). Lecture and concert (in iIalian).
L’inconsueto dell’arpa: i paesaggi sonori di R. Murray Schafer (The unusual side of the harp: R. Murray Schafer’s soundscapes), XIX Cremona Mondomusica, Cremona (I). Lecture and concert (in Italian).
— Solo recordings
2009
Scores for fingertips on tiptoe
20th century solo harp music: Raymond Murray Schafer, The Crown of Ariadne; Bernard Andrès, Élégie pour la mort d'un berger; Henriette Renié, Légende. Released on This is it, forever and Boring Machines.
— Collaborative recordings
2009
Branches, radio play with Robert Lippok for the New York radio station WFMU.
2008
"Charlie fa surf", harp part in a song by Baustelle from their album Amen.
— Selected publications and essays
2009
“Una foresta percorsa dal vento. Alice Giles, Sequenza II e la musica di Luciano Berio” (“A forest crossed by the wind. Alice Giles, Sequenza II and Luciano Berio’s music”), In Chordis, year I, n. 1, January 2009 (Italian text).
2007
“L’arpa: storia ed evoluzione” (“The harp: history and evolution”), Insound, year III, n.16, April 2007, pp. 60- 69 (Italian text).
2006
“Henriette Renié (1875–1956)” and “Henriette Renié: Concerto in C Minor for harp and orchestra”, essays published in the official programme book of The Sixteenth International Harp Contest in Israel (English text).
Rosalinda Sacconi ed il suo lascito al Conservatorio di Musica di Parma, essay realized at the Museum of the Conservatory of Music “Arrigo Boito”, Parma (I) (Italian text).
2005
“L’arpa, rinascita di una cultura” (“The harp, revival of a culture”), in Musicadarpa, year V, n.1, January 2006 (Italian text).