Fernanda Aoki Navarro is an educator and composer of acoustic and electroacoustic music developing intermedia works, performance art and installations. She is interested in sound, in the idiosyncratic relationship between the corporeality of the performers and the physicality of their instruments, in the exploration between music and language, in collaborative processes, and in the transformational power that experimental music can exert on issues related to feminism and social otherness.
At Harvard University, Fernanda was a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Before that, she earned a Ph.D. in Music Composition from the University of California San Diego, a Master's from the University of California Santa Cruz, and a Bachelor's from Universidade de Sao Paulo, in Brazil. She is currently Assistant Professor of Music Composition at Arizona State University, where she teaches Composition, courses on Sound Art, Installations, Electronic Music, and Collaborative Projects.
Her music has been performed nationally and internationally by soloists and ensembles such as NY Philharmonic, International Contemporary Ensemble, San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, Talea, Yarn/Wire, Fonema Consort, Gnarwhallaby, Figmentum, Platypus, among others. Fernanda is also engaged with promoting contemporary music, working as a producer and curator of concerts and music festivals. She doesn't like to be reduced to her gender, nor tokenized because of her ethnicity. She doesn't know how to samba, procrastinates to write program notes, doesn't know how to react when someone makes a compliment or a critique, goes to the cinema every week [pre-pandemic], drinks coffee everyday.
At Harvard University, Fernanda was a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Before that, she earned a Ph.D. in Music Composition from the University of California San Diego, a Master's from the University of California Santa Cruz, and a Bachelor's from Universidade de Sao Paulo, in Brazil. She is currently Assistant Professor of Music Composition at Arizona State University, where she teaches Composition, courses on Sound Art, Installations, Electronic Music, and Collaborative Projects.
Her music has been performed nationally and internationally by soloists and ensembles such as NY Philharmonic, International Contemporary Ensemble, San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, Talea, Yarn/Wire, Fonema Consort, Gnarwhallaby, Figmentum, Platypus, among others. Fernanda is also engaged with promoting contemporary music, working as a producer and curator of concerts and music festivals. She doesn't like to be reduced to her gender, nor tokenized because of her ethnicity. She doesn't know how to samba, procrastinates to write program notes, doesn't know how to react when someone makes a compliment or a critique, goes to the cinema every week [pre-pandemic], drinks coffee everyday.