Villa Serpentara Fellowship 2025
Vita
Anda Kryeziu is a composer, performer and multimedia artist. Her music has been performed at various festivals, such as the ECLAT Festival, Munich Biennale, Neue Musik Rümlingen, Darmstädter Ferienkurse Monstra Sonora Valencia, November Music, etc. In 2023, her opera "PERSONA", named after the film by Ingmar Bergmann, premiered as a cooperation between the Theater Basel and Gare du Nord. Kryeziu has received several fellowships and prizes, including the 69th Composition Prize of the City of Stuttgart 2024, the prize of the Contemporary Arts Alliance Berlin and the Deutsche Bank Foundation’s Akademie Musik Theater Heute. Her music is being released as a CD portrait by Edition Zeitgenösische Musik Katalog. She currently works as a lecturer at the Hanns Eisler School of Music. Her works focus on various genres, such as instrumental music, multimedia and music theatre.
Residency
During her residency, Kryeziu will work on sketches of compositions and intermedial works (sound, text, 3D video) that involve archiving and voice-recognition technologies while also critiquing the biases found in the databases of those technologies.