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APCA lists the 100 best albums of 2025
COISA MÁ was selected among the 100 best Brazilian albums of 2025 by the Popular Music Jury of the São Paulo Association of Art Critics (APCA). See the full list at SCREAM & YELL.
Under the Utopian Banner of Jazz
Jazz was never merely entertainment, but has deep roots in social protest and visions of a more just world. Information set out in search of the rebellious spark within the diverse program of the Copenhagen Jazz Festival. Marcela Lucatelli’s expressive language shakes the hierarchies of power.
On passion and embodied experience in the COISA MÁ show
In this human journey between the divine and the mundane, the sacred and the banal, what is required are those who can move between these two dimensions and transform their experience and art into means of fascination and rapture. This is the case of “COISA MÁ”, a project by Brazilian, Denmark-based Marcela Lucatelli.
COISA MÁ on TV CULTURA News
After two decades on the European contemporary music scene, composer and performer Marcela Lucatelli presents “COISA MÁ”, her first album entirely in Portuguese.
Interview for Jornal da USP
The podcast De Papo Pro Ar features Marcela Lucatelli, one of the most innovative vocalists and composers of her generation, who is releasing her new album “COISA MÁ” (2025), a work that marks her debut in Portuguese and delves into sonorities between ritualistic pop, performance, and vocal experimentation.
Glamour Brasil recommends COISA MÁ
Beyond the shift in language, Marcela Lucatelli's new project also marks an aesthetic change: visceral, danceable, and guided by the encounter between pop, ritual, and experimentation. . Produced by the artist herself, “COISA MÁ” also marks an assertion of autonomy.
Necromancy wins Jazz Vocal Release of the Year at DMA 2023
The first prize of the evening was awarded to Marcela Lucatelli, Anders Vestergaard and Lars Bech Pilgaard for the album "Necromancy", which shows that vocal jazz has many faces - and does not necessarily belong only to the soft end of the spectrum.
Controversial Brazilian composer Marcela Lucatelli on dismantling the Danish status quo
“They cancelled my work and it started a debate in the media about accommodating new music with different values to the Danish ones.” Artist and composer Marcela Lucatelli gives her take on life in Copenhagen.
Just Do It! Exploring the musician's (use of) bodily performance
Accordionist Andreas Borregaard's artistic research project that seeks to explore the possibilities of bodily performance in an expanded field of music and to detect, define and describe some of the skills and knowledge needed to realize them, featuring a commission by Marcela Lucatelli.
Marcela Lucatelli on interdisciplinarity
Students and lecturers talk about working interdisciplinarily as an artist - and about how students at the Danish art schools meet and collaborate through jointly offered electives and projects that cross the artistic disciplines and the traditional subject boundaries.
Lucatelli is among the recipients of the New Paths grant 2023
In 2021, the Danish Composers’ society launched a new grant called New Paths for artistic development and immersion within art music, sound art and related genres. Marcela Lucatelli points to classical music aesthetics from the inside and the outside when, through a lecture performance and a series of essays, she wants to challenge the Western understanding of the Beautiful and the Sublime.
Lucatelli awarded Pelle Prize 2021
KLANG - Copenhagen Avantgarde Music Festival awarded their composition prize, the Pelle Prize, for the fifth time, to Marcela Lucatelli. Named after Danish composer Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen, the Pelle Prize is awarded to a composer whose talent dares to cross the norms of its time.
The voice is the unveiling of singularity: interview with Marcela Lucatelli
“I think that the voice is an unveiling of the uniqueness of each person. It is a very precious thing, that is why we all must and can occupy the space with our voices sonically. Having the right to the vibrating space and the space of affection”, she says. GG Albuquerque interviews Marcela Lucatelli for Volume Morto.
Taking the Temperature:
Crisis, Curating, and Musical Diversity
Ultima Festival brings together interviews with music curators, musicians, activist networks, and institutional leaders, in a book details existing practices and approaches showing that change is possible. Anna Jakobsson interviews Marcela Lucatelli on Sklash+ network and everything that comes with it.
Marcela Lucatelli for 1000 Scores
The artist presents her contribution for the monumental online project 1000 Scores with the work ‘Wholly, totally, entirely (feeling all right)’, commissioned by SPOR Festival, in collaboration with the Japanese animator Nomi.
Crunch in the machinery
One week before the planned premiere of Marcela Lucatelli's “RGBW” at the opening of this year's Pulsar Festival, the DR Symphony Orchestra announced that the work had to be canceled due to 'performative technical problems'. This has led to a great deal of debate - Sune Anderberg from Seismograf talks to the composer, the festival director and the orchestra manager about the situation and course of events before the cancellation.
Marcela Lucatelli profiled in The Wire
Composer and vocalist Marcela Lucatelli writes scores for the limits of bodies and voice. Marcela Lucatelli’s profile at The Wire by Philip Clark.
Exploring Containers, Concrete and the Corporeal Economy of Lockdown with Marcela Lucatelli
On “Quiet Nights” the classically trained composer, freejazz-singer and producer Marcela Lucatelli takes up the discourse of isolation that surrounds us right now and interrogates it. In what sense are we alone, when so much of the world’s commerce is at our fingertips? Listen to the new piece and read Macon Holt's essay at the link.
An Improvised Anthropology of Post-Industrial Life
Macon Holt reviews composer, vocalist, free-thinking improviser, concept engineer, Marcela Lucatelli's self-released album “ANEW” for piano and voice.
Pythia's Journals – A monomedia festival for our isolation pods
Macon Holt reviews the online festival Pythia’s Journals for Passive/Agressive, including Marcela Lucatelli’s 3D animated interactive work “A Philosopher Ought to Converse Especially with Men in Power”. The motivation of the festival was to try and peak inside “those journals from the future”, and in many ways, the event is incredibly well placed to do just that.
Music scandal at DR: didn't want to play with young, screaming Brazilian
We should have experienced an extreme Brazilian, but it ended with a stupid cliché from New York. The avantgarde has always made trouble. This week the scandal was that the performer Marcela Lucatelli was rejected by DR's professional symphony orchestra. Thomas Michelsen reviews Pulsar Festival’s opening concert for Politikken.
Chaos reigns
Madness and humor coexisted on stage as Marcela Lucatelli completed her composition studies in Copenhagen with a special work for the occasion - and for the individuals of the world. “ISYCH” reviewed for Seismograf by Andrew Mellor.
Dissolution of the Holocene
With Marcela Lucatelli as the initiator, the artist network SKLASH+ presented original sound works that studied new possible eras for the human and the art. Mathias Schønberg reviews SKLASH+’s occupation at Klub Primi for Seismograf.
The system needs to change
Pulsar Festival 2020 took place under the shadow of Marcela Lucatelli’s “RGBW”. Tellingly, the most interesting pieces that were actually performed failed to fit into the system – and the larger institutions should take note of this before they find they are being left behind. Composer James Black reviews The Royal Danish Academy of Music’s new music festival.
Can the symphony orchestras accommodate the "ugly" music?
A cancellation of the experimental composer Marcela Lucatelli's work “RGBW” shortly before its first performance this week has sparked debate on social media, about whether DR and the orchestras are giving space for the new generation. Bodil Skovgaard Nielsen from Information takes the pulse on the new composition music and talk to three representatives about the classical environment, which is not known for its willingness to renewal.
Chaos-debut in Seismograf-guide
Marcela Lucatelli is recognized as one of the wildest and most reckless composers of her generation as she gets loose from The Royal Danish Academy of Music.
Audience review of Snow Off-White
Instragrammer @honestcritique_ writes an amusing and certainly honest, pocket critique of Marcela Lucatelli’s performance at Henie Onstad Kunstsenter in Norway.
Marcela Lucatelli receives Carl Nielsen's Talent Award
Each year the The Carl Nielsen and Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen’s Foundation grants the largest honorary awards in Denmark to Danish artists. Talent awards are given to young musicians, composers and sculptors, and this year the composer Marcela Lucatelli was one of them.
Bethany Younge writes about Marcela Lucatelli
Departing from her own experience as a performer of Marcela Lucatelli’s compositions, the composer-performer Bethany Younge reflects about Lucatelli’s deeply collaborative working method, looking into the ways it uses a combination of improvisation and composition to challenge the old sonic economy.
The Golden Days and DR VokalEnsemblet
Article on the concert premiere and creative collaboration for “The Golden Days”, a piece composed for and performed by DRVokalEnsemblet at PULSAR Festival 2018.
The Wire reviews Marcela Lucatelli
“SPOR’s programme takes risks that balance any wackiness with a good deal of thought.” - Emily Bick reviews this year’s SPOR Festival and the two works presented by Marcela Lucatelli at the festival.
Marcela Lucatelli in OS
The Copenhagen based non-profit magazine OS, curated by Kresten Osgood and Anders Holst, interviews diverse artists from the local scene on how and what do they practice.
“I just do what I believe I have to“
Marcela Lucatelli is interviewed by the greek sonic enthusiast George Miskedakis and gives some straight-up answers for the idealiser of “homo sonus”.
IMPOSSIBLE PENETRATIONS in The Wire
Marcela Lucatelli and Bastard Assignments’ performance of their work “IMPOSSIBLE PENETRATIONS” has been pointed out as a musical highlight of 2019, according to Emily Bick from The Wire. This is The Wire’s review of the last 12 months in underground sound and music.
Interview for Klub Primi
Marcela Lucatelli talks about her artistic background, and what forces drive her on stage, for an exclusive short interview after a concert at the Copenhagen venue Klub Primi.
The Lake visits Marcela Lucatelli
The Lake radio visits the composer and vocalist at Kongegården, in Korsør. They talk about composition and improvisation, and then put together five long cables and take a microphone to the grand piano at Kongegården's concert hall.
PHEW! on BBC 3's Late Junction
Max Reinhardt serves a track from “PHEW!” on air together with and an enthusiastic invitation for Bastard Assignments + Marcela Lucatelli for the first time in London.
PHEW! in The Wire
Marcela Lucatelli’s “PHEW! - The Last Guide for a Western Obituary” ft. at The Wire magazine on a latin-american compilation of recommended releases by the peruvian label Buh Records.
“It's almost like I can feel the whole world”
The composer James Black goes climbing and interviews Marcela Lucatelli. Her powerful onstage presence suggests a connection to something with very deep roots.
Marcela Lucatelli on The Wire's Below the Radar
Volume 39 of The Wire's playlist Below The Radar presents a previously unreleased track by Marcela Lucatelli.
The Unknown Inside Us
A conversation between composers Marcela Lucatelli and Bent Sørensen about the current state of diversity in Danish institutions published on the danish online journal Passive/Agressive.
Interview for Filhas do Fogo
Interview on the composer's first full length album and her “vocompositional” processes. Hosted by Amanda Cavalcanti.