LEYNA MARIKA PAPACH

b. New York City

EDUCATION

•       Masters of Fine Arts (MFA) in Music/Sound and Interdisciplinary Study, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College.

•       Masters of Arts (MA) in Theater and Dance studies at Das Theater, Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de Kunsten, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

•       Certificate of Dance Studies, from L’ecole Des Sables, directed by Germaine Acogny, Toubab Dialaw, Senegal.

•       Private Study of violin with Ivan Straus, Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (AMU), Prague, Czech Republic.

•       Undergraduate degree, Violin Performance, Conservatory in the University of Missouri, Kansas City (UMKC).

SELECTED FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, RESEARCH

•       McKnight Composers Fellowship 2024

•       MAP Fund Micrograntee, 2023

•       Individual Grant from Metropolitan Regional Arts Council,

•       Next Step Fund 2023

•       P.E.O. Scholars Awar, P.E.O. International 2020

•       College of Liberal Arts, Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, 2021

•       Music Creator Award from the American Composers Forum/Jerome Foundation, 2020

•       BAX (Brooklyn arts Exchange) Parent Artist Grant, NYC 2020

•       HARP Residency, (production/development) HERE Arts Center, NYC, 2011

•       Fellowship from the Japan/US friendship commission/NEA for research of the Shinto and Gagaku Music in Japan, 2009

•       Two-year Fellowship for research in Moravian Folk Music from the Frank Huntington Beebe Fund, 1999~2000

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS / PERFORMANCES / DISCUSSIONS

 •      Artist Equity Summit/American Composers Forum/ Solo performance/presentation, Saint Paul, MN, 2021

•      Asian American Arts Alliance/Web Panel: Intimate Conversations with Asian Immigrants and Children of Asian Immigrants Who Turned Their Stories Into Song, NYC, NY, 2021

•      MoMA-Museum of Modern Art Judson Dance Theater: A collective Speculation, Performance/presentation, NYC, NY, 2019

•      Creative Cognition/ACM conference, Solo presentation, "In Running", Singapore, 2017

•      United Nations / Autism Awareness conference, Musical performance with, Dada Tapan Kanti Baiya, NYC, 2016

•      Difference and Media Project Conference and Workshops /Bard College Presentation "Bridging cultures through sound" and solo performance, 6/2016

•      UNESCO ITI (International Theater Conference)

•      Presentation of Borges Project: a 10-country theater collaboration, representing Japan, Manilla, Philippines, 2006

SELECTED ORIGINAL WORK AS AN INTERDISCIPLINARY COMPOSER

•       Creation of ‘Mina at Night’, a short opera film, produced by the Minnesota Opera, responsible for music/libretto/directing/staging. Produced by the Minnesota Opera, 2021

•       Composition of ‘Passage’ for ‘SWELL’, an online/live performance of songs about the immigration experience. Produced by Melisa Tien, Presented by HERE Arts Center, NYC, 2021

•       Kagegoto Retrospective (duo with dancer, Chikako Bando)

•       Direction/Composition/Choreography. Performance at Hunter College, NYC, March, 2019

•       Creation of opera, “SONG”, Script/Composition/Direction/Choreography/Set

•       Design/Costumes. Premiere at the HERE Arts Center, NYC. June/July 2016

•       Creation of “Glass Mouth two: “Tale of a Lost Heart...” Direction/Script/Composition/Choreography/Set Design. HERE Arts Center, NYC, 2014

•       Creation of dance theater-opera, “The mother and I and I”Direction/Composition/Writing/Choreography/Set design, HERE Arts Center, NYC. Feb, 2013

•       Creation of dance theater-opera, “The mother and I and

•       I”Direction/Composition/Writing/Choreography/Set design, HERE Arts Center, NYC. Feb, 2013

•       Creation and performance of composition ‘What Stays Shall Stay’ at the``International, House in Tokyo, The Garden, Kyoto, Japan. The Tank, Galapagos Arts SpaceNYC, 2009~2010.

SELECTED PROJECTS AS A SOUND COMPOSER/SOUND DESIGNER

•       Composer for University of Minnesota, BFA performance ‘Anne Boleyn’, directed by Stephen Dimenna at the Gutherie Theater, 2024

•       Sound Design for film by painter, Nitin Mukul. Video with electronics and violin piece

•       ‘CRATOR’ performed at the Queens Museum as part of “Queens International” NYC, 2013 Sound Design for Greyson Hong’s Installation ‘Family time’, Artspace, New Haven, CT, 2009

•       Sound Design for choreographer Emily Faulkner, ‘Wind-Up Dances’, Here Arts Center, NY, 2009

•       Sound Design for choreographer, Karl Anderson, ‘Retrospectacle’, Brooklyn, NY 2007

•       Sound Design for “Sack” by choreographer, Michel Kouakou. Dance Theater Workshop (2007), BRIC Studios, NYC, and Danse Afrique Dance festival in Tunisia and Paris (2006)

•       Sound Design for theater production of “The Little Prince”, directed by Eric Ting. Roundhouse Theater, Washington DC, 2007

•       Sound/Video Design for theater artist, Clarinda Mac Low, ‘Murder is a habit that remorse can’t cure’, Performed in lower Manhattan, NYC, 2007

•       Sound Design for ‘Step In’, for Michel Kouakou and Anani Dodji Sanouvi, Duncan Center, Prague, Czech Republic, 2006

WORK AS A VIOLINIST /SELECTED ORIGINAL WORK/ (2017~current)

•       Creation of ensemble work for the Flexible Orchestra, NY, 2022

•       Commission for the Tesla Quartet as part of ‘Alternating Currents’ project, Presented by National Sawdust, NYC, 2021

•       Performance of composition for solo violin, What stays shall Stay, produced by

•       Amplify art2021, University of Minnesota/online

•       Solo performance at MONA (museum of old and new) Tasmania, Australia, 2019

•       Solo performance at the New School/Women between the Arts, Outpost/Fire over Heaven series, NYC

•       2018: Performance for violin, viola and electronics. Performed at: Superdeluxe, Tokyo, Urbanguild, Kyoto, Del Vaz Projects, Los Angeles, Swiss institute, NY

Performance Experience/venues (Overview) Original or interpretive work performed at venues such as: BAM, MoMA, The Stone, Le Poisson Rouge, Issue project room, Abrons Arts Center, Beacon Theater, Galapagos Arts Space, St.Anne’s Warehouse, Whitney Museum, Queens Museum, CBGB’s, ABC NoRio and Zebulon (NY), El Rey theater (LA), Xebec Hall (Japan), and many venues across the united states and Europe.

 Festivals: Unlimited Festival (Austria), The HAU (Berlin), Festival Alternativa (Prague), All Tomorrow’s Parties (NJ), Alternativa Festival (Prague) Summer Stage at the Prospect Park Bandshell, River to River Festival, and others. Classical: Aspen Music festival, Spring in the Mountains, Performance with Tokyo Ensemble/Tokyo Bunkakaikan and others.