Pauchi Sasaki
- Composer
- Director
- Writer
Known for "Song Without a Name" (2019), her "effective scores" [Variety] are featured in more than 50 feature-length and short films. Pauchi is the recipient of four international "Best Original Score" awards from 29th Festival Cine Ceara (Brazil); 30th Festival de Cinema Latino Americano di Trieste (Italy); Filmocorto, in the 15th International Latin American Film Festival of Lima; and CONACINE, the National Film Council of Peru.
In 2016 she was selected by composer and film scorer Philip Glass to become her protégé for the period of 2 years as part of The Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative award. She also received the Paul Merritt Henry Prize for excellence in the musical composition of stringed instruments; the Ibermúsicas Latin American grant for sound composition with new technologies at CMMAS, México; the Goethe-Institut’s artist residency in Brazil and Berlin; Civitella Ranieri Fellowship, Hermitage Fellowship, Prince Claus Fund, and Columbia University’s fellowship at the Institute for Ideas and Imagination in Paris (2020 & 2023).
Commissions include ACO/Carnegie Hall, The Silkroad Ensemble, Pan American Games Opening Ceremony Lima 2019, Rolex Arts Initiative, among others. Her work has been presented at international venues and festivals such as the Tokyo Experimental Festival, Venice Biennale, Carnegie Hall, Cannes Film Festival, Walt Disney Hall, MET, Museum of Contemporary Art (MAC Lima), The Kitchen, Gran Teatro Nacional del Perú, Festival Cervantino, the Art Basel Miami week, Lincoln Center, and John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
In 2016 she was selected by composer and film scorer Philip Glass to become her protégé for the period of 2 years as part of The Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative award. She also received the Paul Merritt Henry Prize for excellence in the musical composition of stringed instruments; the Ibermúsicas Latin American grant for sound composition with new technologies at CMMAS, México; the Goethe-Institut’s artist residency in Brazil and Berlin; Civitella Ranieri Fellowship, Hermitage Fellowship, Prince Claus Fund, and Columbia University’s fellowship at the Institute for Ideas and Imagination in Paris (2020 & 2023).
Commissions include ACO/Carnegie Hall, The Silkroad Ensemble, Pan American Games Opening Ceremony Lima 2019, Rolex Arts Initiative, among others. Her work has been presented at international venues and festivals such as the Tokyo Experimental Festival, Venice Biennale, Carnegie Hall, Cannes Film Festival, Walt Disney Hall, MET, Museum of Contemporary Art (MAC Lima), The Kitchen, Gran Teatro Nacional del Perú, Festival Cervantino, the Art Basel Miami week, Lincoln Center, and John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
