- Chloe Estree
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Chloe Estree is a performance artist born in France.
She started music as a little child inspired by Charlotte Moorman while growing up in Riyadh with the cello and trained at the Yehudi Menuhin School before studying the lute and music composition at the Royal College of Music and universities in Wales, England and France. Among the awards she has held are the Rudolf Nureyev Foundation Scholarship (1996), the Kate Neal Kinley Fellowship in Illinois (1999) and the Luis de Narvàez International String Quartet Composition Prize (1998) in Granada (Spain). She was invited for a lecture tour in New York and Little Rock (Arkansas) as result of winning the 1999 IBLA Grand Prize. She has also held invitations from Canada (Banff Centre) and Germany (German Academic Exchange Service). She has studied, among others, with the composer Brian Ferneyhough.
Among the performances of her music is by the Arditti Quartet. Her drawings, photography, dance performances and videos have been screened, staged, exhibited and published in the book Multicultural Drawing Practice (2000, Centre for Art International Research, Liverpool, ISBN 0-9523161-3-7). Her music from chamber and orchestral to electroacoustic have been featured and broadcast in Europe, Russia, Japan and the USA, at music festivals including Montanea, Bartok, June in Buffalo, May in Miami, the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Dartington and Bach at Oregon. Chloe Estree is now based in London and Yorkshire.
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Categories:- Living people
- Alumni of the Royal College of Music
- French lutenists
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