FERNANDA AOKI NAVARRO
  • Home
  • EVENTS
  • About
  • Music
    • Solo
    • Ensemble
    • Electroacoustic
  • Intermedia
    • Performance Art
    • Installation & Site Specific
    • Visual
    • Film & Theater
  • Words
  • Contact
  • Links
[2023]
May 12
Otherness
Performance by Platypus Ensemble
Suena Festival
Vienna, Austria
7:30pm
info here

Picture
March 26
Unnoticed Spectacles II
Performance by International Contemporary Ensemble+
New World Symphony members
New World Center
Miami, Florida
2pm
info here
Picture
March 19
Crumbling
Premiere of Video Album
Makrokosmos 50 Project
Nic Gerpe, piano
5:30pm
info here
Picture

[2022]
December 6
Premiere of Lixando-se
Performance by RECAP percussion quartet,
as part of MATA Jr mentoring
Scholes Street Studio
375 Lorimer St, Brooklyn, NY 11206
7pm
info here

Picture
October 7
Screening of KUKA
film by Lyndsay Bloom, music by Fernanda Navarro
Frank-Ratchye Studio for Creative Inquiry
College of Fine Arts
Carnegie Mellon University

4919 Frew Street, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
7pm info here
Picture
October 1
Performance of Crumbling
by Nic Gerpe
Presented by Golden Thread Concert Series
Los Angeles, California
7pm info here
Picture
September 27
IX Concours International de Composition Foundation Franz Liszt
Crumbling and Mestiça are finalist pieces at the competition.
Concert at Fête du Paradis, Via Tesoriera
Biblioteca Civica Musicale Andrea Della Corte
Corso Francia 186, Torino, Italia
5pm Info here
Picture
August 26 & 28
Performance of Crumbling
by Nic Gerpe
Presented by Ebb and Flow Arts

Aug 26: ProArts Playhouse, Maui, 7:30pm
Aug 28: University of Hawai'i at Honolulu, 4pm

7:30pm info here
Picture
August 8
Performance of Through
by Dalia Chin / Fonema Consort
Sao Paulo Contemporary Composers Festival
@ Teatro Municipal de Sao Paulo
Sao Paulo, Brazil
7pm  info here
Picture
July-September
2022 Mata Jr Faculty
Application here
Picture
May-June
Artist Residency

Working on a new commission for
large ensemble, electronics and visual projection

@ Yaddo
Saratoga Springs, New York

Picture
May 10
Guest Lecture at Gustav Mahler Private University
in Klagenfurt, Austria
Picture
May 4
Premiere of Unnoticed Spectacles
Performance by International Contemporary Ensemble
@ MATA Festival
Roulette, Brooklyn, New York City
7:30pm info here
Picture
April 8
Performance of Glottogony
Reverb: Contemporary Music Festival
Phoenix Symphony
7:30pm info here
Picture

March 24
Performance of Emptying the Body
by Otavio Manzano Kavakama
@ Praecepta New Music Festival
BGSU
Bowling Green, Ohio
8pm info here
Picture
March 20
Performance of Parthenogenesis
@ New World Symphony
Miami, Florida
info here
Picture
March 19
Performance of the flaw that bears the entire building
by Fonema Consort
@ The Americas Society

680 Park Avenue New York, NY
6pm
info here

Picture

March 15

Performance of Crumbling
Performed by Nic Gerpe
@ Monk Space
Los Angeles, CA
8pm
info here
Picture

March 12

Premiere of Crumbling
Performed by Nic Gerpe
@ Center for New Music
San Francisco, CA
info here
Picture
March 12
Performance of Glottogony
Bienen Institute for New Music
Northwestern University
7:30pm
info here

Picture
March 5
Performance of Daddy
Centro de Experimentacion y Production de Musica Contemporanea
Jose Luis Cuevas Museum
Mexico City, Mexico
13:30pm
Picture
[2021]
December 18
Release of transition (as part of mumei TEN)
@ KM 28
Berlin, Germany
info here

Picture
December 2-5
Exhibition of Song to Let Go
 @ SONIC MATTER FESTIVAL
Kunstraum Walcheturm

Zurich, Switzerland
tickets and info
Picture
December 1
Performance of Impermanence
@ PRISMS Contemporary Music Festival
Arizona State University
7:30pm
tickets
Picture
November 16
"Soundscape, Sound Escape" was awarded the
Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts Grant.
The project will unfold as an interactive installation and as a multi-platform composition, exploring issues related to ecology, sound spatialization, and social togetherness.
Exhibition, performances and lectures TBD.
Picture
October 28
Paper presentation of "Transdisciplinarity in Sound Design and Music Composition for Film Post-Production"
in collaboration with Rodrigo Meirelles and Janaki Cedanna
@ Audio Engineering Society Convention 2021
7pm
info
Picture
October 27
Lecture at Festival de Música of EMAC
Goiás, Brazil
5pm
Picture
August
Unfolding at Notes on Napkins 2020
Commissioned by the Center for the Art of Performance UCLA
Notes on Napkins info
Picture
September 14 and 21
Featured at USP Especiais
Produced by Raquel Novaes
Radio USP FM, 93.7 FM São Paulo
Universidade de São Paulo

Brazil
8pm
Picture
August 10
Performance of Through (for flute and bass flute)
Performed by Renata Kambarova
@ Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt
Darmstadt - Germany

4:30pm
Picture
July 14
Featured at Radio Show Nada Clásicas
OPUS Radio Station, 94.5 FM CDMX
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Mexico City
8pm
Picture
April 25
Masterclass @ Luna Lab

New York City
[Online]
3:30pm
April 9

Performance of Mestiça
performance by Kate Campbell
@ Ross Mackee Foundation

San Francisco, CA
[Online]
5pm
March 27
Masterclass @ Walled City Music Festival

Northern Ireland
[Online]
3:30pm
Picture
Picture
Picture
[2020]

April 20
MATA Festival

NY Premiere of "Impermanence" [POSTPONED due Covid-19]
for ensemble and electronics
performed by International Contemporary Ensemble
@
The New School – Ernst C. Stiefel Concert Hall
55 W 13th St, New York City
8pm

Click here for more info and tickets

•

April 15 [POSTPONED due Covid-19]
Premiere of "Surveyed / Surveilled"
for ensemble & multimedia environment
performed by ~Switch Ensemble
@ Knaffel Center, Radcliffe Institute,
Harvard University

18 Mason St, Cambridge, MA 02138
7pm


•

March 26
Brazilian premiere of  "Emptying the Body"
performances by William Teixeira

SESC Cultura
Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brasil
8pm

March 27
Sala Almeida Prado 
Unicamp, Campinas, São Paulo, Brasil
7pm

March 28
Casarão da Cultura
Rio Claro, São Paulo, Brasil
8pm

•

March 20
Performance of "Unboxing Helena"

@ Unirio
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
6pm

•

March 10
Performance of "Unboxing Helena"

@ AUTA
São Paulo, Brazil.
7pm

•

March 9
Performance of "Impermanence"

for flute, clarinet, percussion, piano, violin, violoncello & electronics
performed by Callithumpian Consort
@ New England Conservatory
Jordan Hall 290 Huntington Avenue Boston, MA, 02115
7:30pm
More info here

•

March 8
Performance of "Unboxing Helena"

@ Cinemateca de Bogotá
& Festival en Tiempo Real
Bogotá, Colombia
3pm

•

March 6
Performance of "Ms. Spider"
Performed by Figmentum Ensemble
Music By Women Festival
@ MUW, Mississippi 
5pm

•

March 4
Open Studio

 
♦ Is your local orchestra sexist and racist?
♦ Playing the piano while being aware of colonialism
♦ A Song To Let Go
♦ L w I o F r E k
@
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
Harvard University

10 Garden St, Cambridge, MA 02138
Studio 44, ground floor
6-8pm

•

March 2
Presentation at Harvard Group for New Music
Colloquium Series
Harvard University
Music Department
12pm

•

February 25
Artist Talk
@ Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
Harvard University

10 Garden St, Cambridge, MA 02138
11:30am

•

February 18-19
ICEcommons Workshop
New Piece

@ Vincent Astor Gallery, NYPL
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts,
  Lincoln Center
40 Lincoln Center Plaza, NY 10023

•

January 24
Performance of "The Flaw That Bears The Building"
for voice, percussion, piano & electroncs
performed by Fonema Consort
in partnership with Goethe-Institute
@
Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts
University of Chicago
915 E 60th St, Chicago, IL
8pm

•

[2019]


November 6
Performance of "Ms. Spider / Dona Aranha"
for 3 toy pianos, vocalists and 2 coat hangers
performed by Ensemble Figmentum
@ Southwestern College, Chula Vista, California
7:30 pm

•

October 23
Performance of "Daddy"
by Fulcrumpoint
LatinX Electroacoustic Music & Poetry
@ Allen Hall of The Holtschneider Performing Arts Center
DePaul University, Chicago
7pm

•

June 25
Performance of "Burden of Selfhood"
an interdisciplinary work exploring the intersection of feminism, identity and technology.

@ Ecologies of Transformation
2019 ACM Conference Creativity & Cognition +
Designing Interactive Systems

Calit2, UCSD

8 pm

•

June 4
Performance of "Ms. Spider"
for 3 toy pianos and 2 coat hangers
performed by Ensemble Figmentum
@ UCC Mission Hills
6 pm

•

June 1
Performance of H.
for 2 sopranos and spring drums

performed by Accordant Commons
as part of LA Phil Noon to Midnight


@ Walt Disney Concert Hall
[ near BP Hall ]
2:30pm

•

May 31
┏(-_-)┛┗(-_- )┓┗(-_-)┛┏(-_-)┓

Recital

┏(-_-)┛┗(-_- )┓┗(-_-)┛┏(-_-)┓

@ UCSD Conrad Prebys Music Center
Experimental Theater
San Diego, California
6pm

•


May 10
Performance of "Impermanence"
for flute, clarinet, percussion, piano, violin, violoncello & electronics
performed by San Francisco Contemporary Music Players
@
SFJAZZ
201 Franklin St, San Francisco, CA 94102
Tickets here
7:30pm

•


April 9
Performance of "The flaws that bear the building"
for voice, piano and percussion
XX Concert, part of Springfest
Experimental Theater
Conrad Prebys Music Center, UCSD

7pm

•

April 7
Performance of "Daddy"
part of the New Century | New Voices concert series
organized by Matthew Evan Taylor
curated by Marcos Balter
Mahaney Arts Center
Middlebury, Vermont
7:30pm

•

March 18
Performance of "Emptying the Body" for cello
by Brice Catherin
@ Phipps Hall
University of Huddersfield
United Kingdom
7:30pm
•

Past events
[2018]
​

November 24
Performance of "Emptying the Body" for cello
by Brice Catherin
@32 impasse de la Moline
8:30pm

•


November 14
Presentation on Music & Language: PINK
@ Poetry Foundation

61 W Superior St, Chicago
7pm

•

November 16
Premiere of "The Flaw That Bears The Building"
for voice, percussion, piano & electroncis
performed by Fonema Consort
in partnership with Poetry Foundation
@ Elastic Art
3429 W Diversey Ave - Chicago, IL
8:30pm


•

September 26 
Performance of "About Beauty" for bass flute
by Dalia Chin
@ Elastic Art - 3429 W Diversey Ave
Chicago, IL


•

June 14
Nief-Norf Summer Festival

Performance of "H." for 2 sopranos and spring drums
@ University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Knoxville, TN

•

April 25, 7pm
Wednesdays@7
Premiere of "Glottogony" for 18 instruments & electronics
 Renga conducted by Steven Schick
at
UCSD Concert Hall
Conrad Prebys Music Center

•


April 13, 5pm
XX Concert @ SD Soundings
Performance of "Daddy"
at
Experimental Theater
Conrad Prebys Music Center, UCSD


•

March 29
SEAMUS 2018
(Society for Electroacoustic Music in the United States)
Performance of "Unboxing Helena"
at
University of Oregon
Eugene, OR

•

February 26

Mise-En | Acoustic +
Performance of "Unboxing Helena"
at
 MISE-EN_PLACE
New York, NY

•

January 8
New York Philharmonic
CONTACT! Series
Performance of "Parthenogenesis"
at
National Sawdust
New York, NY
•


[2017]​

November 18, 7pm
Performance of "Kuka"
@IMPERFECTU
Festival Internacional de Cine y Estudios de Género
Tijuana, Mexico
•

October 16, 7pm
Performance of "Fendas"
by Matthias Koole
@ Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Brazil
•

August 20-24

Collaboration with Nadar Ensemble
@ deSingel
Concert: Aug 24, 8pm, Muziekstudio
Antwerp, Belgium
•

June 18 - July 1

Performance of "Daddy"
by  ICE / Ensemble Evolution
@ BANFF Centre for Arts and Creativity
Concert: July 1, 4pm, Rolston Hall
Alberta, Canada
•

June 19, 2pm

Performance of "Unboxing Helena"
@ NYCEMF 
(NY City Electronic Music Festival)
Abrons Art Center
New York, NY
•

June 15
Performance of "Daddy"
by Ensemble Paramirabo
@ Domaine Forget
Quebec, Canada
•


April 13, 8pm
Performance of "Never Can Say"
by Arcus Collective
@ DiMenna Center Benzaquen Hall
New York City
•
April 14, 8pm
Performance of "Never Can Say"
by Arcus Collective
@ Fleisher Art Memorial
Philadelphia
•

April 14, 7pm

Performance of "She Swallowed a Glass Piano"
XX Concert
@ Springfest 2017
Experimental Theater
Conrad Prebys Music Center, UCSD

•
​

March 23, 5pm & 7pm
Performance of "Burden of Selfhood"
an interdisciplinary work exploring the intersection of feminism, identity and technology. By using interactive technology and research from cognitive science, music, poetry, video and performance art, the performance will investigate the experience of viewing and being viewed as a gendered body.
Collaborative work: Fernanda Navarro, Stefani Byrd, Sarah Ciston, Amy Fox and Heidi Kayser.


@ IDEAS Festival
Calit2 Theater, Atkinson Hall, UCSD
San Diego - California

•
​

February 22, 7pm
Performance of "Through" (for flute and bass flute)
Ine Vanoeveren, flute
@ McGill University
Montréal - Canadá

•
February 16, 7pm
Performance of "Through" (for flute and bass flute)
Ine Vanoeveren, flute
@ NYU
New York - NY

•
February 6, 7pm
Performance of "Through" (for flute and bass flute)
Ine Vanoeveren, flute
@ UCSD - CPMC
San Diego

•

February 4
Performance of "Otherness" (for fl, bass cl, pno, vln, vla, vc, perc)
18th Biennial Festival of New Music
@ Florida State University
Tallahassee - Florida

•

January 30, 7pm
Performance of "Fendas" (for electric guitar and fixed media)
Matthias Koole, guitar
@ VAC - Verão Arte Contemporânea
Belo Horizonte - Brazil

•

January 26, 7pm
Performances of 
"Too Big for the Door" (double bass)
Matt Kline, bass
&

"Through" (for flute and bass flute)
Ine Vanoeveren, flute
@ LACC
Los Angeles - California

•

[2016]
October 16, 8pm
Performance of "Emptying the Body" (amplified cello)
Tyler J. Borden, violoncello
@ Automata
Los Angeles - California
•

September 18, 5:30pm
Performance of "Emptying the Body" (amplified cello)
Tyler J. Borden, violoncello
@
Kunstquartier Bethanien
Mariannenplatz 2, 10997 Berlin - Germany
•

September 17, 10pm
Radio Interview 
​@ Radio Cultura FM
Supertonica
​with Arrigo Barnabé
•

August 3, 11am
Performance of "Through" (for flute and bass flute)
Ine Vanoeveren, flute
@ Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt,
Lichtenbergschule
Darmstadt - Germany
•

July 22, 8pm

Performance of "Engoliu um piano de vidro" @ FIME
(Festival Internacional de Musica Experimental)
Sao Paulo - Brazil
•

July 21, 2pm
Performance of "Through" (for flute and bass flute)
Ine Vanoeveren, flute
@ SESC Consolação
Sao Paulo - Brazil

•
​

June 2, 6pm
Screening of KUKA
(film by Lyndsay Bloom, music by Fernanda Navarro)
at UCSD Department of Visual Arts
San Diego
•
​

April 6, 4pm
Presentation at Columbia University
620 Dodge Hall
New York
•
April 5, 1pm

Presentation at NYU
Silver Center, Room 365
New York
•
March 18, 8pm
Performance of "H." 
by Accordant Commons
@ Automata
Los Angeles - California
•
March 10, 7:30pm
Performance of "H." 
by Accordant Commons
@ Bread & Salt
San Diego - California
•
​

[2015]

November 30 - December 11
Performance of "The Unattainable / The Intimate"
 (interactive multimedia work for the “Immersive Lab" Exhibition)
@ Gray Area
San Francisco - California
•

November 7
Performance of "too big for the door" (for double bass)
Matt Kline, bass
NUNC! New Music Conference and Festival
@ Northwestern University
Illinois - Evanston
•

August 8, 9pm

Performance of "Unboxing Helena" (fixed media)
@ ibrasotope
Sao Paulo - Brazil
•
​

June 4, 4pm
Performance of "Emptying the Body" (for amplified violoncello)
Tyler J. Borden, violoncello
@
June in Buffalo Festival
New York - Buffalo
•

May 17, 9pm
Performance of "Emptying the Body" (for amplified violoncello)
Tyler J. Borden, violoncello
@
Spectrum
New York City
•
​

March 5, 7pm
Performance of "Through" (for flute and bass flute)
Ine Vanoeveren, flute
@ UCSD - CPMC - Concert Hall
California - San Diego

Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
  • Home
  • EVENTS
  • About
  • Music
    • Solo
    • Ensemble
    • Electroacoustic
  • Intermedia
    • Performance Art
    • Installation & Site Specific
    • Visual
    • Film & Theater
  • Words
  • Contact
  • Links