Bianca Quigley is an award-winning composer, installation artist, and violist currently based in Valencia, Spain. Her artistic identity explores the fleeting and unstable qualities of sound, technology, and digital interaction. Drawn to ephemerality and the afterlives of obsolete machines, she repurposes technological “waste” — from CRT TVs to circuit-bent consumer electronics — as instruments that reveal novel sonic and perceptual realities. Her practice often uses discarded or nostalgic media to create experiences where the familiar becomes uncanny, and recontextualizes one’s perception of the space where acoustic and electronic sound creation become indistinguishable. Bianca approaches technology not as a neutral tool, but as a collaborator. Inspirations from pioneers like Maryanne Amacher to the lo-fi improvisations of DIY electronics inform her unique perspective, where circuits, feedback systems, and transducers become vehicles for unexpected intimacy. Regardless of the mediums employed, her work invites audiences into fragile moments that are both lasting and ephemeral. 

Bianca has studied composition with a diverse range of new music pedagogues, including Cat Lamb, Felipe Lara, Du Yun, Oscar Bettison, Sam Pluta, Bryan Jacobs, Inés Thiebaut, Anthony Green, Wang Lu, Mercedes Zavala, and Klaus Lang. She had the opportunity to work with Yarn/Wire in June 2023 and recently collaborated with JACK Quartet in February. Her work was performed by members of Montreal-based ensembles Quasar and Paramirabo in June, and she had her LA premiere in August with the Brightwork Ensemble.

In addition to her work in composition and multimedia installation, Bianca has a decade-long background in solo performance, orchestral music, and chamber ensembles, and is an active participant in the world of improvisation and new music performance. She is currently a member of the new music group Bent Wrench, an ensemble dedicated to commissioning works from both emerging and established composers, where she alternates between electronics and viola. Bianca has a strong background in viola performance, having studied with renowned pedagogues including Roberta Zalkind, Claudine Bigelow, Jutta Puchhammer-Sédillot, Julie Edwards, Jeffery Irvine, and Patricia McCarty, and attended prestigious summer programs such as Bowdoin, Meadowmount, and Orford Musique.

She holds an HBA in Viola Performance and Composition from Westminster University and a Master of Music in Composition from the Peabody Institute, studying under Sky Macklay. Upon graduating from Peabody, she received the Ada Arens Morawetz Memorial Award and placed 3rd in the Prix d’Été Composition Competition.