1. Paola Prestini was born in Italy, and graduated from the Juilliard School, where she "had already developed a reputation as a formidable impresario even before she graduated".
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Paola Prestini studied there under Samuel Adler, Robert Beaser, and Sir Peter Maxwell Davies.
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Paola Prestini is the founding artistic director and CEO of National Sawdust.
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Paola Prestini has been quoted by Timeout NY as "Paola Prestini is a name to know in New York new music, as she works to secure a home for innovative composition and performance in Williamsburg".
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Paola Prestini sits on the strategy committee for Prototype Festival, is a regular curator at John Zorn's The Stone, and sits on the board of National Sawdust.
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Paola Prestini's music has been commissioned by and performed at the following institutes: Carnegie Hall, Chicago Symphony, the New York Philharmonic, New York City Opera and the Kronos Quartet, and in non-US venues.
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Paola Prestini is the editor of the New York Philharmonic's Very Young Composer handbook.
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Paola Prestini received the Victor Herbert Award ASCAP in 2014 and the ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award for double string quartet and double bass.
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Paola Prestini has been the recipient of the NEFA grant Award Grants for Aging Magician, in the category ranging from $90,000-$130,000.
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Paola Prestini was a NYSCA Individual Artist Grant Awardee in both 2006 and 2009.
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Paola Prestini received the Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans and other fellowships from Carnegie Hall and the Sundance Institute, among others.
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Paola Prestini has held residencies at Florida's Hermitage Artist Retreat, LMCC Governor's Island, MASS MoCA, The Park Avenue Armory, The Watermill Center and Wyoming's Ucross Foundation.