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Recorder player (+ electronic devices, distortions, cheap toys, feedbacks, voices) performer, curator, composer, teacher.
She studied Music in her native town (Conservatorio Nacional de México), in Montréal (Université de Montréal),
Amsterdam (Conservatorium van Amsterdam) and Vienna (Konservatorium der Stadt Wien, Institut für Elektroakustische und Computer Musik).
Since 1999 she lives in Vienna where she teaches. She founded the concert series "Neue Musik in St Ruprecht" which she currently runs and where regularly musicians from Austria and abroad perform.
She works interdivisionaly with dancers, writers, musicians, video artists, performers, theatre, etc.
Even if she stayed faithful to the early music (Ensemble fiori musicali), the center and heart of her work is electroacustic and New Music:
Co-creation of the Ensembles low frequency orchestra, los autodisparadores (with Thomas Grill and Katharina Klement), frufru (with Maja Osojnik),
cilantro (with Billy Roisz), subshrubs (with Katharina Klement, Billy Roisz und Maja Osojnik) and Chesterfield (with Burkhard Stangl).
With these ensembles and other musicians such as Olga Neuwirth, Wolfgang Mitterer, Urkuma, Martin Siewert, Eva Reiter, Manrico Montero, Mario de Vega,
Barbara Romen, Gunter Schneider, Juan Jose Rivas, Marina Rosenfeld, John Butcher, Okkyung Lee, dieb13, Matija Schellander, Kazu Uchihashi a.o.
She performed across America and Europe.
As a composer she wrote for her own instruments (mainly Paetzold recorders with or without electronics), for ensembles (a.o. Danubia Saxophon Quartett,
subshrubs, Bella Discordia) as well as for theatre and dance; she composed several electroacustic pieces. Her Music has been recorded at labels like Mosz,
Ein_klang Records, Mandorla, Mikroton Records and chmafu nocords and has been presented in several radio programs.
Castelló has worked with composers like Mario Lavista, Hilda Paredes, Katharina Klement, Daniel de la Cuesta, Robert Kellner, Jorge Sanchez-Chiong,
Phil Niblock, Johannes Kretz, Burkhard Stangl etc. on their works, some of which have been dedicated to her.
She has performed at important festivals such as: Salzburger Festspiele, Ulrichsberger Kaleidophon, Donau Festival, Radar, Taktlos, Interpenetration,
Osterfestival, Musica Genera, lmc festival, Musikprotokoll, Numusik, Music Unlimited, Wien Modern, ChaĠakĠab Paaxil, Klangspuren, Kontraste, a.o.
She worked as an artist in residence in Schrattenberg (A) and in Topolo (I).
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1997 - Conseil des Arts et Lettres du Quebec (Canada) Grant for abroad studies
1999 - FONCA (Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y la Artes, México) - Grant for abroad studies
2007 - Publicity-Preis from the SKE-austro mechana in Austria (for the Ensemble Low Frequency Orchestra)
2011 - State Grant for Composition from the Federal Ministry of Education, Arts and Culture in Austria (bm:ukk)
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