Inga Chinilina is a composer, improviser, and pianist based in Providence, Rhode Island. Her work includes music for acoustic instruments from solo to orchestra, electronic music, and a mix of both. In addition to stand-alone music pieces, Inga also makes installations, music for dance and film.
Ensembles that have performed Inga C’s music include Either/Or, The Empyrean, Dal Niente, Jack Quartet, ICE Ensemble, line upon line percussion trio, Loadbang, Longleash Trio, Lydian String Quartet, Neave Trio, No Exit, Sound Icon, Russia State Academic Russian Folk Ensemble, Splice, Talea, and Yarn/Wire.
Inga is a PhD candidate in “Music and Multimedia Composition” at Brown University. Her research explores how composers represent sound entities that bare emotional meaning and posses complex timbre through the use of Western-European instruments. Inga holds a BM in Composition and Performance from Berklee College of Music and an MFA in Theory and Composition from Brandeis University.
