Carlo Diaz
composer, conductor, concert producer
United Kingdom (residence), Italy, United States (citizenship)
research interests: composition, arranging, curating, historiography, Early Music, New Music, Historically-Informed Performance
affiliation: Leiden University & Orpheus Institute
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I am a composer, conductor, and concert producer; Artistic Director of the Early+New Music ensemble Stile Nu, Artistic Director of the Past Futures Festival at the Oosterkerk Amsterdam, Production Coordinator for the Chicago-based International Music Foundation, and PhD candidate on the docARTES trajectory at Leiden University and the Orpheus Institute.
As composition, curation, and historiography, my work explores the concept of music as rhetorical oration through the lenses of impossible originality, unattainable authenticity and the creativity of performance. I have worked with ensembles including Stile Nu, the Nieuw Ensemble, wild Up, Ensemble Linea and Ugly Pug, and have participated in festivals including the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra’s National Composers Intensive, Make Music Chicago and the Tampering Festival.