Nava Hemyari

Nava Hemyari studied composition at the mdw with Wolfgang Suppan from 2012 to 2017 and electroacoustic composition with Karlheinz Essl from 2012 to 2020, with workshops by Klaus Lang, Beat Furrer and Georg Friedrich Haas, among others. During her studies she composed a piece for organ, performed by Wolfgang Kogert at the Hofburgkapelle in Vienna. Since 2015 she has also worked with her own voice (soprano), writing and performing a number of pieces.

She is particularly interested in the speculative nature of music, which, without language or imagery, has an extensive range of interpretation. Recently she has consciously worked with language and imagery too, using text on a formal level as a structuring element and searching for sound colours that conceptually fit the chosen texts. She has written and directed three short films and a music video. Her works and installations have been presented at the VLAK Gala, Wiener Konzerthaus, echoraum, Salzburger Künstlerhaus, Schoenberg Center Wien and on Radio Ö1, among others.

In 2020 her organ piece Earsore premiered at the Michaelakirche and her duet Cosas Pequeñas opened the Divertimento Ensemble Festival. In 2022 she received the City of Vienna's working scholarship for composition for her chamber opera Taxidermic, and in 2023 the state scholarship. In 2023 she was Composer in Residence at Festival Imago Dei alongside Peter Ablinger, with world premieres by Company of Music and, at Wien Modern, by Black Page Orchestra.