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🎓 Education

  • 🎶 MA, Sound Art & Computer Music — Kunstuniversität Graz, Austria, 2021

  • 🧠 MMus, Composition — HMdK Stuttgart, Germany, 2017

  • ✍️ Composition studies with Wolfgang Rihm — HfM Karlsruhe, Germany, 2016–2017

  • 🎻 BMus, Classical Double Bass — Manhattan School of Music, NYC, 2010

🎤 Selected Performance Experience

  • 🎻 Sligo Baroque Orchestra — Double Bassist, 2025–Present

  • 🎶 Galway Arts Festival (w/ Stephen O’Dowd) — 2025

  • 🎷 Featured Artist, Derry Jazz Festival — 2025

  • 🎼 Ensemble Modern Wien w/ Gerd Kühr, Graz — 2021

  • 🥁 Han Bennink Trio, Berlin — 2014

  • 🎵 Solo Concert, Spectrum NYC — 2013 

  • 🎺 LaGuardia Jazz Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis, Jazz at Lincoln Center, New York, USA — 2007

🎧 Selected Art and Composition Performances

  • 🇱🇹 Kintai Music Festival, Lithuania — 2022

  • 🇭🇷 Zagreb Biennale, Croatia — 2019

  • 🇩🇪 Darmstädter Ferienkurse — 2018

  • 🇰🇷 ISEA, South Korea — 2019

  • 🇲🇽 Centro de Cultura Digital, Mexico City — 2019

  • 🇰🇷 Seoul Computer Music Festival — 2017

  • 🇩🇪 ZKM Next Generation, Germany — 2017

🏡 Residencies

  • 🇱🇹 Lithuanian Composers Union — 2022

  • 🇩🇪 Electronic Music Studio, Akademie der Künste Berlin — 2021

  • 🇸🇪 Kultivera, Sweden — 2019

🏆 Awards

  • 🎖 Japan Media Arts Festival, Official Jury Selection — 2021, 2019

🎬 Film Music

  • All In (dir. Binha Haase), Bis in Alle Ewigkeit (dir. Anna Mangelsdorf) — 2022

  • Windpark (dir. Lisann Greiner-Bechert) — 2021 

  • A Film About a Thin on a Table, Demeter, (dir. Serban Ionescu) — 2013, 2021

© 2023 by Brian Joseph Questa

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