Elisa Arciniegas Pinilla

Colombian sound artist
Composer, producer and improviser
Viola, voice, guitar and electronics

(EN) She began her music studies at the age of 6 at the Conservatorio de Música of the Universidad Nacional de Colombia and until obtaining the professional diploma in Classical Music / Viola in 2006, with Anibal DosSantos ( solo viola of the Orquesta Filarmónica de Bogotá).

From 2008 to 2013 she studied in the Jazz and Improvisation Music Departement, Conservatoire de Strasbourg, France and obtained the DEM (Diploma of Musical Studies). Student of Jean Daniel Hégé in improvisation techniques, Bernard Struber, composition, Claudia Solal, jazz singing, Françoise Kubler, contemporary singing and Mélanie Moussay, vocal technique.

She also graduated from the Master of Arts : Spezializierter Musikalischer Performance Improvisation of the Hochschüle für Musik Basel, Switzerland (2013) in the class of Fred Frith and Alfred Zimmerlin.

The wide spectrum of her academic training offered her the possibility of making a musical career mixing different styles with the intention of creating, proposing and sharing new and innovative musical and artistic paths.

She has worked as composer, performer and improviser for interdisciplinary projects with dance, film, theater and performance arts in Germany, Switzerland, France, Austria, Italy and Colombia.

She also worked as a teacher of singing, violin and musical improvisation for the Choreographic Center of Strasbourg, the European School of Strasbourg, the music school of the CSC Neuhof, the CEDIM (Centre d'Enseignement and Development of Musical Improvisation), Jazz d'Or, Théâtre Le Maillon de Strasbourg, CIRA Danses and the Suzuki Institute in Strasbourg, FR.

In 2013, she created the independent label MOMENTANEA for the promotion of jazz and improvised music, and she has published records, programmed concerts, festivals and masterclasses in France and Colombia.

Today she is undertaking the AMARELA contemporary pedagogy project, with the aim of creating a link between artistic creation and family well-being, and a space for interaction and sharing between pedagogues and artists from various countries around the world.