Paola Prestini is a composer, director and a co-founder of VisionIntoArt, an interdisciplinary collective/production company based in NY. Her 2009 Tzadik release Body Maps has been featured on WQXR and Q2 and showcases new music’s great soloists. She has been commissioned and performed by ensembles such as New York City Opera, MATA, Ensemble ACJW, the Kronos Quartet, ETHEL, Carnegie Hall, WNYC, and Concert Artist Guild in venues and festivals worldwide. Her current projects include works for Chicago Symphony Orchestra Music Now, a residency at the Krannert Center, De Deo, an opera with librettist Donna Di Novelli that will inaugurate New York City Opera’s Word First Program, and large scale works for soloists Maya Beiser and Cornelius Dufallo.
Paola has received awards from ASCAP, NYSCA and the LMCC and is a Paul and Daisy Soros fellow, and a Sundance Fellow. A graduate of the Juillard School, she studied with Robert Beaser, Samuel Adler, and Sir Peter Maxwell Davies.