Elisa Arciniegas Pinilla

French Colombian music ARTivist
Composer, producer, improviser, sound designer 
Viola, voice, guitar and electronics

I began the music studies at the age of 7 at Universidad Nacional de Colombia and until obtaining the professional diploma in Classical Music - Viola. 
Class of Anibal DosSantos (solo viola Orquesta Filarmónica de Bogotá) in 2007.

DEM in Jazz and Improvisation Music in the Conservatoire de Strasbourg, France (2008/2012). Class of Jean Daniel Hégé, improvisation technique for strings. Bernard Struber, jazz composition. Claudia Solal, jazz singing. Françoise Kubler, contemporary singing. Mélanie Moussay, vocal technique.
 

Master of Arts Spezialisierter Musikalischer Performance - Improvisation of the Hochschule für Musik Basel, Switzerland. Class of Fred Frith and Alfred Zimmerlin (2011/2013)
 

Studies in electronic music production and sound design with Longevity Music School, Strasbourg, FR (2022/2023) and with the sound and informatics engineer Alex Toms (Argentina) in 2024/2025.

Since 2013 I've been working as a composer, producer, performer and improviser for interdisciplinary projects with dance, cinéma, theater and performance arts in Europe and Latin America. In 2013, I co-founded my first independent label MOMENTANEA for the promotion of jazz and improvised music.

In 2020 I've started the pedagogical and art production project AMARELA, willing to provide a link between artistic creation and alternative educational methods, and a space for interaction between pedagogues and artists from different cultures. 

Member of Les Allumés du Jazz, fédération de labels indépendants de France. And Collectif PILS, Promotion de l'Improvisation Livre à Strasbourg, since 2014.