Charo Calvo

Charo Calvo

She is a Spanish electroacoustic composer, sound designer and professor, living in Brussels.

After performing as a dancer with the influential Belgian dance company Ultima Vez, she

engaged her studies on Electroacoustic Composition with Annette Vande Gorne at Brussels

Conservatory. Her work is being developed on different media, widely diffused on international

venues and festivals, dance performances, theatre, film and radio. On the radio art circuit she

has received several important prices as Palma Ars Acustica 2014 EBU, Phonurgia Nova Awards

Paris in radio art 2017, Prix Marulic 2018 short forms and was shortlisted for Prix Europa,

Grand Prix Nova Bucharest, Hearsay Prize Ireland. She has been a guest of the residential

program for international artists in Berlin DAAD (Berliner Künstler Programm) during the

year 2017/2018.

To get a wider overview of her work please visitwww.charocalvo.org

AWARDS

'Phonobiographie#1' (2013) production ACSR Bruxelles

First Prize Palma Ars Acustica de la UER -European Broadcasting Union, 2014 Genève.

Shortlisted Prix Europa Berlin 2014.

Finaliste au Prix Phonurgia Nova 2015 à Paris.

‘Qualia/Tokio' (2015), Production Musiques et Recherches

Finaliste HearSay Prize 2015, Ireland

‘Qualia' ( 2017) produced by ABC Radio Unit Soundproof, FACR Wallonie-Bruxelles and ACSR de

Bruxelles (two versions English and French)

First Prize catégorie Radio Art Phonurgia Nova Awards 2017 Paris.

Shortlisted Palma Ars Acustica UER 2017 Vienne.

Shortlisted Grand Prix Nova 2017 Bucharest.

‘1917 October’ ( 2018) self produced.

XXII Prix Marulic National Radio Croatia Short formats.