Graciela Paraskevaidis

"Composing is an act involving historical, social and personal processes and situations ... To be a composer living by choice in a third-world country ... assumes implicit challenges: trying to defy the cultural and musical models established by a McDonaldized, neo-liberal, globalizing northcentric first world."

Graciela Paraskevaidis is a composer of chamber and electro-acoustic music, educator, musicologist, and journalist.

Paraskevaidis' awards include Centro Latinoamericanos de Altos Estudios Musicales, Instituto Di Tella (Buenos Aires), DAAD (Freiburg), Municipalidad de Buenos Aires, Academy of Arts West Berlin, and Fondo Nacional de las Artes (Argentina) and she has been the recipient of the Goethe Medal honoring her efforts towards cultural understanding among peoples. Her music has been performed at the Athens Festival, Akademie der Künste (West Berlin), Musica Viva Freiburg, VI Festival International de Musique Expèrimentale de Bourges, ISCM World New Music Days (Graz, Oslo, Cluj), Pan Music Festival (Seoul), Nécleo Música Nueva (Montevideo), New Music America Festival (Los Angeles), Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (Glasgow), and Festival de Percusion (Mexico). Her writings have been published in Tribuna Musical (Buenos Aires), La del Taller (Montevideo), Pauta (Mexico City), MusikTexte (Cologne), and World New Music Magazine (Cologne). She is author of La obra sinfónica de Eduardo Fabini and Luis Campodanico compositor. She has been professor at Universidad de la Republica in Montevideo and a member of the organising collective of the Cursos Latinoamericanos de Musica Contemporánea.

Graciela Paraskevaidis lives in Montevideo, Uruguay, and pursues an active career as composer, author, and educator.