SOFIA VAISMAN MATURANA (Santiago, Chile, 1993)
Is a Chilean music composer, poet, and improviser. She first arrived to London in 2018 to do her MA in Music Composition at King’s College London. Upon her arrival, she approached the world of free improvisation, performing with the London Improvisers Orchestra (LIO) (2018-2021). In 2022, together with Caroline Kraabel she will cofound ONe Orchestra New made up exclusively of women and trans people. .
During the pandemic, she was invited to collaborate with the Lonely Impulse Collective (LIC) (2020-2022), from where she regularly published more than fifty miniatures and soundscapes. Some of which have been broadcasted on BBC Radio 3 and Resonance FM. She has improvised with several international artists in sessions at 100 Years Gallery, Cafe OTO, IKLEKTIK, El Internado de Valparaíso, and Festival Acéfalo. She has also produced music for several plays, and her compositions have been premiered at Sala Nezahualcóyotl (Mexico City), Centro Cultural Gabriela Mistral (Santiago, Chile), the LMTA Balkono theater (Vilnius, Lithuania), and the Midtown Arts & Theatre Center Houston (USA), among others.
As in literature, in 2015 she published her first collection of poems, ‘Pasillos de tiempos precoces’ (Editorial Planeta de papel, Valparaíso, Chile). In 2018 she published her second collection of poems: ‘No le pongamos nombre a lo nuestro’, (Ediciones Puntos suspensivos, Buenos Aires, Argentina). And in 2019 she was awarded with the second place at Victorina Press Poetry Awards, (London). She writes in Spanish but has translated several of her poems into English. And has performed her work in remarkable events such as FLAWA (2022) and the Tate Late (2022).
She is currently completing her PhD in Music Composition at King’s College London. She writes regular chronicles for SalvoConducta (Santiago-Buenos Aires) and is working in the publication of her third collection of poems, together with writing her first novel.
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