Bofill, Anna

Born in Barcelona in 1944. A composer and an architect. From 1950 until 1961, she studied the piano, musical theory, and musical composition, with J. Albareda, J. Cercós, and X. Montsalvatge. Between 1968 and 1971, she studied harmony, counterpoint, and the fugue, with Josep M. Mestres-Quadreny. Until 1977, she continued studying with him the development ofmusical structures throughout history, until arriving at the modern concepts on the application of mathematical probabilities in music. She has studied electroacoustics music with Lluís Callejo and Gabriel Brncic, at the Phonos Laboratory, and later, computer music with Xavier Serra. She has also studied musical composition with Luigi Nono. In 1985, she obtained a grant from the Catalonian Commission on Research and Technological Innovation (CIRIT), to work in Paris at the Centre d’Études de Mathématique etAutomates Musicales (CEMAMU), or the Center for the Study of Mathematicsand Automated Music, directed by Iannis Xenakis. She has translated, tothe Catalan, his work Música y Arquitectura (Music and Architecture).

At the same time, she continued to study at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Barcelona (Barcelona’s Superior Technical School of Architecture), where she earned, in 1974, her architecture doctorate. Anna Bofill Levi is a practicing Architect.

She has written works for diverse solo instruments, for chamber orchestra, for voice, and for electroacoustics. Some of them have been performed all around the Spanish territory, and also in cities like Paris, Berlin, New York, Mexico City, Santiago de Chile, etc., and in numerous festivals andcongresses of contemporary music.

She is a member of the Associació Catalana de Compositors (Catalonian Composers Association), Asociación de Mujeres en la Música (Women in Music association), Asociación Española de Música Electroacústica (Spanish Electroacoustic Music Association), the International Computer Music Association, and of the International Alliance for Women in Music.