Angélica Castelló
Recorder player, composer, improviser, sound artist, curator, teacher.
Born in Mexico City in 1972, Castelló studied music in her native town at the Conservatorio
Nacional de México, at the Université de Montréal, at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, at theKonservatorium der Stadt Wien and at the Department of Composition and Electroacoustics at theUniversity of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. Since 1999, she has lived in Vienna, where she isa teacher. In the year 2004, she founded the concert series “Neue Musik in St. Ruprecht”, and hasorganised hundreds of concerts and events.
Even though she remains devoted to old music, new and electroacoustic music take center stage in
her work. She co-founded the ensembles Low Frequency Orchestra, frufru (with Maja Osojnik),cilantro (with Billy Roisz), subshrubs (with Katharina Klement, Tamara Wilhelm and MajaOsojnik) and Chesterfield (with Burkhard Stangl) Plenum, Zimt (with GunterSchneider, Barbara Romen and Burkhard Stangl) a.o.. She has performed in Europe and America
with these ensembles and with other musicians such as, Martin Siewert, John Butcher, Dafne
Vicente-Sandoval, Urkuma, Franz Hautzinger, Isabelle Duthoit, dieb13, Jerome Noetinger, Mariode Vega, Attila Faraveli, Kazu Uchihashi, Bonnie Jones, Juanjose Rivas, Steve Bates, OlgaNeuwirth, Wolfgang Mitterer and others.
As a composer, she writes for her own instruments (mainly the Paetzold sub great bass recorder,with and without electronics) and for ensembles (amongst them the Danubia Saxophonquartett,Reconsil Ensemble Vienna and the Haydn Piano Trio) as well as Electroacustic Works. Her music
has been published by the labels Mosz, Instertellar Records, Orlando Records, einklang_records,
Mandorla Label, Mikroton Recordings, Monotype Records and chmafu nocords. Numerous
composers, including Hilda Paredes, Daniel de la Cuesta, Katharina Klement,
Burkhard Stangl, Jorge Sánchez-Chiong, and Mario Lavista, have worked with Angélica Castellóor dedicated pieces to her. In recent years, Castelló’s work has included installations that operate at
the interface of music, performance and visual arts (Electroaltar, Electroaltar for J.C., Electroaltar
für C.N., Margarita' Stillleben Theater).
Her debut album, “Bestario”, unites the multifaceted nature of Angélica Castelló’s work:
Recordings of her own instruments serve as the raw material for pieces in which she edits thesounds of her flutes, sometimes beyond recognition, and combines them with frequently deformed
fragments of other elements — be they electronically produced or found elsewhere — to a musicalentity in which multiple layers overlap. She weaves existing pieces of other composers, such as
Bach, into these contemporary forms of electronic processing, thereby referencing her work as aninterpreter of old music. Even though her other sources of inspiration, such as from literature orvisual arts, often have specific roots, they lead Castelló to an abstract engagement with such topics
as death, and dealing with traumatic encounters. Wide-ranging combinations of sounds that are
constantly and sometimes simultaneously moving in different directions provide continuity as wellas surprises, and when listened to repeatedly, they shed new light on the beasts from literature, theanimal kingdom, and daily life that have been set to music.

Prizes and Scholarships
2016 Austrian State Stipend for Composition (Österreichisches Staatsstipendium für Komposition)from the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, the Arts and Culture
2014 Outstanding Artist Award – Interdisciplinarity from the Austrian Federal Ministry for theArts and Culture
2011 Austrian State Stipend for Composition (Österreichisches Staatsstipendium für Komposition)from the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, the Arts and Culture
2007 Publicity Award from the SKE Fund of austro mechana (for the Ensemble Low FrequencyOrchestra)
1999 FONCA (Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, México) scholarship for studies abroad
1997 Conseil des Arts et Lettres du Quebec (Canada) scholarship for studies abroad
Performances and Commissioned Works (Selection) Klangspuren Schwaz Festival, Styriarte Graz,
Salzburger Osterfestspiele, musikprotokoll im steirischen herbst, festival “music unlimited” wels,
Ulrichsberger Kaleidophon, festivals Kontraste and Imago Dei (Krems), Osterfestival Tirol, LMC
festival (London), taktlos-bern festival (Bern), Grabenfesttage (Vienna), Numusic (Norway),
Interpenetration (Graz), Radar (Mexico), Konfrontationen Nickelsdorf, Visiones Sonoras (Mexico),High Zero (Baltimore), artacts (St. Johann), blurred edges (Hamburg) and others; artist in residencein Schrattenberg (Austria) and Topolo (Italy).