KRISTIN NORDERVAL (Born 1957) is a performer, composer and improviser whose career has been two-fold; split between vocal performance and composition. Her performance repertoire spans the renaissance to the avant-garde, and her credits as a soprano soloist include performances with the Oslo Sinfonietta, Philip Glass Ensemble, Pomerium, the Netherlands Dance Theater, and the San Francisco Symphony. As a composer, Norderval focuses primarily on exploring the nuances of the human voice combining her operatic lineage with electronic experimentation. Kristin Norderval holds a Doctor of Musical Arts from Manhattan School of Music, a Master of Music from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and a Bachelor of Music from the University of Washington. She was a Visiting Scholar at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts in the Performance Studies Department in 2003/04, and was a Research Fellow at the University of Østfold in Halden, Norway, from 2006 – 2008. Norderval was a co-founder and vocalist/laptop performer in the electro-acoustic chamber music duo ZANANA, a vocalist in Pauline Oliveros’ free improvisation quintet The New Circle Five, and is currently a member of the New York based new music group Ensemble Pi.