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CLAUDIA JANE SCROCCARO

She is an Italian composer based in Paris, where she teaches electronic music at IRCAM.


Her work explores the interaction between instrumental writing, voice, and digital technologies, with a focus on formal structures, spatialization, and the social dimension of listening. Her research engages with the sonic portrait as a medium of memory, identity, and representation, situating her work at the intersection of documentary and musical practice.

She is a fellow of the French Academy in Rome – Villa Medici (2024–2025).

After initial training in piano and orchestral conducting, she studied musicology at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, before pursuing composition and electronic music at the Santa Cecilia Conservatory. Supported by a DAAD scholarship, she continued her studies at the Stuttgart University of Music and Performing Arts, and later joined IRCAM’s Cursus in composition and computer music, where she has taught since 2021.

Her music has been presented at major European festivals, including Donaueschinger Musiktage, IRCAM ManiFeste, Festival Éclat, Festival Propagations, and Warsaw Autumn, with the support of IRCAM, Fondation Royaumont, France Musique, SWR, and the Fondation Pierre Boulez. It has been performed by Ensemble Musikfabrik, SWR Vokalensemble, Johanna Vargas, Ensemble 2e2m, Talea Ensemble, Ensemble Linea, and Florentin Ginot.

Among her main mentors are Marco Stroppa, Philippe Leroux, Franck Bedrossian, as well as Mikhail Malt and Luigi Verdi.

Recent projects include On the Edge (SWR Vokalensemble, Donaueschinger Musiktage), Faro (Ensemble Musikfabrik, Fondation Pierre Boulez, Villa Medici, IRCAM), and Espaces Blancs (GMEM Marseille).

Her sound installation Détails et Retailles, conceived as a dialogue with the album Jazz, is currently presented at the Grand Palais as part of the exhibition Matisse1941–1954, produced by the Centre Pompidou and IRCAM,

Matisse at the Grand Palais

March 2026 – July 2026

Grand Palais (Paris)

Détails et retailles : conversation sonore avec Jazz de Matisse
Sound Installation commissioned by IRCAM-Centre Pompidou

Curator Claudine Grammont

Janco Boy Bystron drums, percussions
Marco Fiorini electric guitar
Timothée Quost trumpet
Jérémie Bourgogne IRCAM sound diffusion

Faro. A Musical Portrait of Amelia Rosselli
12th of June 2025 @104 Paris
Johanna Vargas, Ensemble Musikfabrik, IRCAM