Life

Ada Gentile was born in Avezzano

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 and attended the Conservatorio di St. Cecilia in Rome

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, graduating in piano and composition. She then completed a graduate degree at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia with Goffredo Petrassi

Goffredo Petrassi

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. She has lectured at Northwestern University

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, Juilliard School

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, Wayne State University

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, Columbia University

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, the University of Chicago

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 and the University of California

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 at Berkley

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 in the United States

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 and also widely in Europe

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 and Asia

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. She was Deputy Director of St. Cecilia Conservatory from 1999 to 2005, and has been instrumental in organizing a number of music festivals. Her works have been performed internationally.

Works

Selected works include:

• Adagios for string orchestra (1993–94)
• Adagio for a Summer for flute and strings (1998)
• Concertante for flute, guitar and orchestra (1989)
• Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra (1995)
• Concert ("Veni Lumen Cordis") for female voice (or B clarinet) and orchestra (1993)
• Criptografia (Cryptography) for viola and chamber orchestra (1985)
• Two Episodes for organ, orchestra and voice in echo (1988)
• Flighty for orchestra (1982)
• Around for flute, clarinet and viola (1984)
• Insight for 2 violins and viola (1984)
• Perviolasola for viola solo (1987)
• Music Scene (1996)
• Piccolo concerto for chamber orchestra (1995)
• Shading for guitar and chamber orchestra (1988)
• Veränderungen for symphony orchestra (1976)
• Why Not? for orchestra (1985)
• She Begged My Mother for orchestra and narrator (2000)

Discography

Gentile maintains an extended discography. Selected recording include:

• La voce contemporanea in Italia, Vol. 2 - Audio CD (Nov. 14, 2006) by Ennio Morricone, Bruno Maderna, Ada Gentile, Carlo Mosso, et al.
• Vittorio Fellegara: Requiem di Madrid, Die Irae, Notturno Ada Gentile: Criptografia, Shading - Audio CD by Ada Gentile, Vittorio Fellegara, Giulio Bertola, Lev Martkitz, et al.
• Paesaggi Della Mente - Audio CD by Ada Gentile and Manuel Zurria - flute
• Plot in Fiction - Audio CD (Aug. 27, 2002) by Enrico Correggia, Luca Francesconi, Giacinto Scelsi, Ada Gentile, et al.
• Musica De Camera - Audio CD (Dec. 12, 1995)

External links

• Official website