Catalina Rueda is a Colombian/Spanish composer based in Hamburg, Germany. Her artistic practice explores sound in its potential poetic visibilities through possible interactions between language and music, as well as between composition and improvisation.

 

Catalina's work spans various mediums, including opera, music theater, orchestral compositions, chamber music pieces, and interdisciplinary performances with dance, poetry, and visual arts. She has worked with KNM Berlin, Asian Art Ensemble, Kölner Vokalsolisten, Theaterorchester Aachen, Duisburger Philharmoniker, Staatsoper Stuttgart, Landes Theater Tübingen, Phoenix Ensemble Munich, NMC Ensemble, handwerk Ensemble, Ensemble I Transiti, and DuoLAB.51. She has engaged in interdisciplinary collaborations with directors Mien Bogaert, Annett Stenzel, Josef Bairlein, and Lisa Pottstock. Her music has been featured at various festivals, including KNM Contemporaries, Blurred Edges, Neue Musik in Husum, and Acht Brücken Festival in Cologne.

 

She earned her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in composition at the State University of Music and Performing Arts Hamburg, studying in the classes of Manfred Stahnke and Gordon Kampe.

Her music was awarded with the Acht Brücken Festival Prize, and together with writer Lisa Pottstock, she won the Music Theater Prize of the Reinhold Otto Mayer Foundation. They collaboratively wrote the hybrid monster opera "Melusine. What are you doing on Saturday?”