Fernanda Aoki Navarro is a composer, multimedia artist and educator. Her music has been performed by major ensembles and soloist, her instrumental music, electronic works, and installations had been performed and exhibited in the United States, Latin-America, and Europe. Her works have been performed across the globe by many renowned ensembles including the New York Philharmonic and the International Contemporary Ensemble.
She is also engaged with promoting experimental music, working as a producer and curator of such concerts and music festivals as Festival Internacional de Música Experimental, and PRISMS Festival.
Education Fernanda was born in Brazil and is based in the United States. She studied Music Composition at University of São Paulo, University of California Santa Cruz, and at University of California San Diego (PhD), where she worked with Roger Reynolds, Rand Steiger, Steven Schick, and Katharina Rosenberger.
Career Navarro joined the faculty at Arizona State University in 2020 as an assistant professor of Music Composition within the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts.
She was a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (2019–20) at Harvard University, and an artist-in-residence at Yaddo (2022).
Performances of Navarro's work include those with the International Contemporary Ensemble, New York Philharmonic, New World Symphony, Phoenix Symphony Orchestra, Talea Ensemble, Yarn/Wire, Callithumpian Consort, Platypus Ensemble, Fonema Consort, Nadar Ensemble, Ensemble Paramirabo, Accordant Commons, Fulcrum Point New Music Project, and San Francisco Contemporary Music Players
Works Ensemble Parthenogenesis (2012) clarinet, trombone, violoncello, piano Pink (2013) soprano, flute, clarinet, piano, percussion, violin/viola, violoncello Otherness (2014) amplified flute, clarinet, piano, percussion, violin, viola, violoncello Daddy (homage to Sylvia Plath) (2017) flute, clarinet, piano/Disklavier, violin, violoncello and electronics The flaw that bears the entire building (homage to Clarice Lispector) (2018) soprano, percussion, piano and electronics Ms. Spider (2019) 3 toy pianos, coat hangers, and performs' voices Impermanence (2019) flute, clarinet, percussion, violin, violoncello, toy instruments, electronics, wearable speakers Glottogony (2018) large ensemble /orchestra and electronics Unnoticed Spectacles I (2022) soprano, flute, clarinet, bassoon and electronics Unnoticed Spectacles II (2023) soprano, flute, clarinet, bassoon soloists, ensemble, electronics, and video Re-flex (2023) mezzo-soprano, flute, clarinet, trumpet, 2 percussionists, violin, viola, cello, electronics and video
Solo Fendas (2011) electric guitar and electronics Emptying the Body (2012) amplified violoncello Too big for the door (2014) double bass Through (2015) "I. Watching – flute"; "II. About Beauty – bass flute" Mestica (2019) piano Crumbling (2022) piano
Electroacoustic Seated Figure (2008) To Bruno Mantovani (2014) Unboxing Helena (2011) A song to let go (2015)
Installation / performance art / visual MeMeMe (2014) Dinner Music (2015) The Unattainable / The Intimate (2015), co-created with Stefani Byrd and Juan Rubio. A song to let go (2015) The Burden of Selfhood (2017), co-created with Stefani Byrd, Amy Fox, Sarah Ciston, Heidi Kaiser. Playing the piano while being aware of colonialism (2020) Unfolding (2020) Transition (2021) Soundscape, Sound Escape – Chapter 1: Arizona (2023), co-created with Rodrigo Meirelles and Jean Howard
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