Angélica Castéllo
Angélica Castelló studied music in her native town (Conservatorio Nacional de México), in Montreal (Université de Montréal), Amsterdam (Conservatorium van Amsterdam) and Vienna
(Konservatorium der Stadt Wien, Institutfür Elektroakustische und Computer Musik).
Since 1999 she lives in Vienna where she teaches and also organises concerts.
Even if she stayed faithful to the ancient music (Ensemble fiori musicali), the center and heart
of her work is electroacustic and New Music: Co-creation ofthe Ensembleslow frequency
orchestra, los autodisparadores(with Thomas Grill and Katharina Klement), frufru (with Maja
Osojnik), cilantro (with Billy Roisz),subshrubs (with Katharina Klement, Billy Roisz und
Maja Osojnik) and Chesterfield (withBurkhard Stangl). With this ensembles and other
musicians such as Olga Neuwirth, Wolfgang Mitterer, Isabelle Duthoit, Franz Hautzinger, Martin Siewert, Mario de Vega, Marina Rosenfeld, John Butcher, Okkyung Lee, dieb13, a.o. she performed across America and Europe. As a composer she wrote for her own instruments (mainly Paetzold recorders with or without electronics), for ensembles (a.o. Danubia Saxophon Quartett, subshrubs, Bella Discordia) as well as for theatre and dance. Her music has been recorded at labels like mosz, Ein_klang Records, Mandorla, Mikroton Records and chmafu nocords and has been presented in several radio programs. For her work she received several prices and grants in Canada, México and Austria.
http://castello.klingt.org/
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