Composer and impresaria Paola Prestini is filled with energy and passion. She continues to spearhead, collaborate and produce new music projects that inspire awe. This year she is working on the opening of the Original Music Workshop, a new space and art incubator. Some of her other projects include the release of Oceanic Verses and the Labyrinth Installation Concertos on VisionIntoArt’s new label, VIA records. Other premieres include a new work with Hotel Elefant, the expansion of the Hubble Cantata with Nathan Gunn, and various other works in development. “ I am unswayed by trends and yet excited by all voices,” Paola says. ”I strive to stay ahead of the curve, and I am tremendously interested in nurturing new talent.”
Paola Prestini talks with Eugenia Zukerman and Emily Ondracek-Peterson from Noted Endeavors about balancing her extensive professional demands with her home life, which includes a young child.
Paola Prestini is a composer/producer/entrepreneur/teacher who balances her own artistic endeavors while running several companies – VisionIntoArt and Original Music Workshop in Brooklyn. Her cross disciplinary projects, residencies, and collaborations bring disparate points of view together and redefine boundaries. She says, “I believe strongly in creating artistic communities and fostering new art,” and she is starting a new contemporary music label, VIA Records, which will present collaborations between composers and artists in different fields.
“Here I am, crisscrossing the country in new work, with new collaborators, making new friends,” Daniel Bernard Roumain writes in a November newsletter. He has composed the original score for a unique storytelling experience, produced by NPR Presents, named Water±.
In addition he’s been named co-chair of the 2015 APAP conference, and he’s joined the board of Directors of Creative Capital. DBR shows, according to the Washington Post, “what it means to push boundaries of musical genres to new heights.” An artist with a multitude of ideas who accomplishes them, he’s remarkably generous in sharing his strategies for turning thought into creative action.
