Short artistic bio

Helena Palma is both a composer and a linguist (Ph.D, UC Madrid 1990). She is currently based in Galicia, where she does research and teaches Linguistics (Phonetics, Syntax, Semantics) and Musicology at the University of A Coruña. She is director of the research unit Natural Language and founder of the experimental group Infinity Quantizers. She was born in Barcelona and studied piano, violin, harmony, musical forms and composition at the Conservatorio Superior de Musica with Maria Lluisa Nadal, Manel Oltra, Joan Pich Santasusana, and Josep Poch. She extended her musical education in England with Ronald Lees and Raymond Warren.

Her research interests in composition include the interface between speech prosody and the melody of music, improvisatory games, polyrhythmic dialogues, indexicals, and expressive functions.

Helena Palma is keen in doing conjoined research with instrumental performers and singers that would lead to the invention of new technical and expressive possibilities of acoustic instruments and the human voice.