PITAYA , Paloma

Paloma Pitaya is a violinist and composer from Brazil. She began composing as a way of expressing her roots and cultural identity through music, transmitting the colors and feelings of her daily life in sounds, appreciation and love for her own culture. Her work as a composer seeks to explore the richness of the genres and rhythms of Brazilian music. Composer in residence at Fundación Antônio Gala para Jovenes Creadores (ES|2019) she wrote a book of 13 Brazilian violin caprices, called Caprichoso Brasil. Each caprice was written in a different genre of Brazilian music and is also a work of research and expansion of this music to the language of the violin. This caprices gave her the prize of Best Instrumental Author at the Prêmio Profissionais da Música (BR|2023). As a violinist she graduated from Academia de Música da Osesp (BR|2021-23), participating in several concerts and on tour across the United States with Osesp playing at Carnegie Hall. As well as a Master‘s degree from the Academia Internacional Galamian (ES|2018-19) and a Bachelor’s degree in violin from the Federal University of Santa Maria (BR|2012-16). Currently she lives in the city of São Paulo, Brazil, as a Freelancer, and was selected as one of the 12 composers of the Gabriela Ortiz Composing Studio at OAcademy Conservatory (US|2024).