Martin says:

Clara gave a cmrc seminar for us a few years ago and it was wonderful to hear how she imagines herself inside the sound and hears out the music from this internal perspective. There's a fragility and ferocity to her soundworld, and it's incredibly precise in its embracing of the whole range of the noise/tone continuum. 'Sound, not notes' is what I remind my students every week, and Clara's music is a wonderful example of where this can lead...

[from claraiannotta.com]

Clara Iannotta is an Italian composer and curator based in Berlin.

Her music is commissioned and performed by renowned ensembles, soloists, and orchestras, including Arditti, Quatuor Diotima, Ensemble Intercontemporain, JACK, Klangforum Wien, Neue Vocalsolisten, Münchener Kammerorchester, Nikel, WDR, RSO Wien, and SWR Orchestra.

Iannotta has been a fellow of the Berliner Künstlerprogramm des DAAD in 2013, Villa Médicis (Académie de France à Rome) in 2018–19, and the recipient of several prizes including the Ernst von Siemens Composers’ Prize 2018, Hindemith-Preis 2018, Una Vita nella Musica Giovani 2019, Premio Abbiati 2021. Her three portrait albums A Failed Entertainment (Edition RZ), Earthing (Wergo), and Moult (Kairos) were all awarded a place on the Bestenliste der deutschen Schallplattenkritik (German Record Critics’ Award). She is a member of the Academy of Arts in Berlin.

Iannotta is professor in composition at the University of Music and Performing Arts (mdw) in Vienna since 2023, and  the artistic director of the Bludenzer Tage zeitgemäßer Musik since 2014.