photo by Paul Turowski
bio
Kristina Warren is an acoustic and multimedia composer, improviser, and researcher based in Providence
RI [US]. Her practice - including building/playing unique instruments, composing
for/with chamber ensembles, and writing about gender in electronic music - centers individual and collective
acts of listening and making noise. Warren's work has been programmed at events such as
the Guthman Musical Instrument Competition
[US], Espace des arts sans frontières
[FR], ICMC [GR, NL],
ISSTA [IE],
Mise-En Music Festival [US],
NYCEMF [US], and
TENOR [CA, ES], and performed by ensembles
such as Chartreuse,
Dither,
Ekmeles,
JACK Quartet,
loadbang,
Meehan / Perkins Duo,
Sō Percussion, and
Third Coast Percussion. She has been
selected as
a PEO Scholar Award recipient (2016),
an Associate Artist at the Atlantic Center for the Arts (2016), and
a
finalist in the American Composers Forum National Composition Contest (2014).
Currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Electronic Music & Multimedia at
Brown University,
Warren holds a PhD in Composition & Computer Technologies from
University of Virginia (2017) and a BA in Music
Composition from Duke University (2011).