Hi there!
I’m Andrea, an Australian-born composer and classical guitarist with a specialisation in electroacoustic music and spatialised sound. Over the years, collaborating with numerous ensembles, visual artists, theatre-makers, and dancers, has helped develop my current style of interdisciplinary experimentation. I believe that music is a unique platform for storytelling and a potent enabler of human connection. With this in mind, I use sound to unpack social constructs and explore the philosophical complexities of our human condition.
Official Bio
Andrea Guterres is a composer, classical guitarist, and sound artist primarily based in The Netherlands. With a specialisation in electroacoustic music and spatialised soundscapes, her work can be heard in a variety of contexts, including performances, sound installations, and multimedia artworks. Creative collaboration is at the core of her practice and philosophy, and Andrea often takes an interdisciplinary approach to composition, working closely with performers and artists of other disciplines.
Andrea has been a featured artist and composer at a number of international festivals and venues around the world. Highlights include Tilde New Music Festival (Melbourne), Gaudeamus Muziekweek (NL), Ars Electronica Forum Wallis (Switzerland), Klangraum Krems (Austria), National Sawdust (NYC), Grachtenfestival (Amsterdam), Edith-Russ-Haus (Germany), Neues Kunsthaus Ahrenshoop (Germany), Milieu Gallery (Bern), Bushwick Open Studios at MISE-EN_PLACE (NYC), Festival Neue Musik Lüneburg (Germany), and Sonicscape ‘New Music Day’ (South Korea), amongst others. In addition, Andrea's work has been commissioned by such venues in The Netherlands as Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ, Korzo Theater, Het Orgelpark, and the Oude Kerk, and performed by artists such as Nieuw Ensemble (NL), Ensemble Mise-En (US), Ensemble Offspring (AUS), National Sawdust (US), Ensemble Black Pencil (NL), Block4 (UK), the Blink Quartet (NL), and Ensemble Via Nova (DE), amongst other groups and soloists.
Over the years, Andrea has been an artist in residence at Kunstort Eleven Artspace (Baden-Württemberg, Germany), ARNA Midsummer Music (Skåne, Sweden), MISE-EN_PLACE (NYC), and the Cité Internationale des Arts (Paris). She is the recipient of scholarships from AiR Niederösterreich (Krems, Austria), Künstlerhaus Lukas (Ahrenshoop, Germany), and Künstlerhof Schreyahn (Wendland, Germany), and her work has received grants from several funding bodies in Europe, the US, and Australia. Andrea was a finalist in the 2020 Musica Nova Electroacoustic Music Competition, winner of the 2022 Hildegard Commission prize, and recipient of the 2023 APRA Professional Development Award in the Classical/Experimental category.
