Luciana is a composer, performer, director and researcher. Her compositional work combines vocal and instrumental sounds with a creative and critical approach to technologies, unfolding across different art forms, namely instrumental theatre, contemporary opera and sound art. 2024 features performances of her work by Line Upon Line percussion at Winter Composer Festival (Austin), by the ensemble Proxima Centauri at Festival MÀD (Bordeaux) as well as the exhibition of her sound installation The Listening Canvas at NIME (Utrecht). She was a 2023 laureate resident at Cite des Arts Paris where she exhibited her sound installation Brève anti-histoire des sons trouvés. 2022 highlights include the performance of her multimedia opera Film Performance at Tête-à-Tête: The Opera festival (London), the performance of her work Dessus-dessous by Ensemble 2e2m at Music of the Americas (NY) and the award of an Innovation Grant by OperaHack (San Diego Opera, US) for Metropolis 3.0. Her teaching activity recently took place at the London College of Communication, the School of Creative Technologies of the University of Portsmouth, the Outreach department of the Festival d’Aix (France), Latin Elephant’s Community Music Ensemble, Trinity Laban’s Learning and Participation department and the MA Music Theatre at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama (London). Her performance practice focuses on new music, having performed in venues and festivals internationally including NIME 2024 in Utrecht, Winter Composer Festival in Austin, Darmstädter Ferienkurse Open Space, Musikfestival Bern, Acht Brücken Festival Cologne, Gare du Nord Basel, Société de Musique Contemporaine Lausanne, three editions of CICTEM at UNA, First Conference of Contemporary Music at Damus, Centro Nacional de la Música. In 2018, she was recipient of a Music Grant from the National Funds of the Arts (AR). Luciana took training in Opera Staging at ISATC (Teatro Colon Superior Institute of the Arts) and has collaborated with organisations and opera productions as Stage Director and Assistant director: Sounding Shakespeare with Puzzle Piece Opera Company, Don Giovanni and Nozze di Figaro (Mozart) at Opernfest Berlin, Lady Sarashina (Eötvos) with Swiss Opera Studio, La Sonnambula (Bellini) with Dov’è la Bussola Opera company, Dido and Aeneas (Purcell) and Suor Angelica (Puccini) at Centro Nacional de la Música Buenos Aires, and The Old Maid and The Thief (Menotti) at Teatro 25 de Mayo. Luciana is currently carrying out a doctoral practice-based research at the Royal College of Music looking at new materialists approaches to compositional practices and interactions with technologies in musical performance. In 2020, she was awarded a Master of Arts in Composition especialised in Music Theatre from the University of the Arts in Bern (Switzerland) with Minor in Opera, where she studied under Simon Steen-Andersen, Gilbert Nouno, Leo Dick, Cathy Van Eck and Teresa Carrasco. She graduated in Music from the National University of the Arts and in Theatre from the Metropolitan School of Drama (Buenos Aires). She also holds a certificate in Music Education from Manuel de Falla Conservatoire of Music and has been teaching music in the context of both formal education and community outreach workshops since 2011.