Cecilia Chailly
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Cecilia Chailly is the harpist and composer best known and appreciated by the Italian public, as well as reinventing the harp and propose it as a modern, charming and expressive instrument. She has written a successful novel, takes a column in Donna Moderna magazine and she also loves to paint and to take pictures. After an important classical career she began to compose her music, with whom she has performed in major Italian Opera Theaters (including La Scala and the Auditorium of Milan, the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, etc.) in the most important festivals and in major television and radio broadcasts.
Raised in a musical family, daughter of the composer Luciano Chailly
, sister of Riccardo
conductor
, has built a personal journey, breaking away from classical roots soon to experience her music, her inner world and creativity. She studied composition with Azio Corghi at the Milan Conservatory and nineteen years old she was invited by her teacher to replace her as the first harp in the orchestra of La Scala in Milan. She has worked for Giorgio Strehler
's Piccolo Teatro of Milan and then began an intense career as a classical performer. With Ludovico Einaudi
produced the album "Stanze" (BMG 1992) with electric harp which is the pioneer; debuted at Queen Elisabeth Hall in London and some songs become the soundtrack of the film "Fuori dal mondo" by Giuseppe Piccioni. She worked with John Cage
, David Parsons, Mina
, Andrea Bocelli
Fabrizio De André
Teresa De Sio
Giorgio Conte Lucio Dalla
, Ron
, Morgan
Planet Funk
Gianni Morandi
, Le vibrazioni
, Alex Britti
, Hector Zazou
.
Sensitive to changes in generations and Eastern philosophies, in 1996 in California she recorded the albumAnima(Warner) (feat David Darling, Andrea de Carlo, Mike Marshall) which won the Prix De Sica. Transmitted in Alitalia flights, for years the Cecilia's music and the video image become the symbol of the TV channel Rai Sat. She performed for Krizia, Laura Biagiotti, Nino Cerruti, has been testimonial for Missoni, Costume National, Fendi, Alviero Martini first class, Joshihiko Ogawa.
In 1998 she published the novel "Era dell'amore" (Bompiani), which won several awards. Some of her songs become the soundtrack to the filmNonhosonnoby Dario Argento andMai più come primaby Giacomo Campiotti, and several theatrical shows including "Felicità di una stella", a children's show represented in various European countries. In Milan she performed for the Dalai Lama
and in 2000 she took part, with great success, in the concert in memory of Fabrizio De André
at Carlo Felice theater in Genoa. It was the debut as a singer, which leads her to produce the albumAma(Sony, 2002), supported by Lucio Fabbri and his violin, including her arrangements, orchestrations, songs and experimental sounds that cross the pop
, the techno
, the trance and World Music
.
In 2003 she was invited to the Montreaux Jazz Festival, she played in the Vatican for Pope John Paul II. In 2006, alongside Ron
at the Sanremo Festival in the song "L'uomo delle stelle". In 2007 she released the album, Alone (Emi), described as "delightful" by Ennio Morricone
and "deeply moving and meditative" by singer Sting, performed and recorded alone at home with various acoustic instruments, except the song "Living Room" with the participation of Ludovico Einaudi's piano. In 2009 she released "Istanti" (Egea), (feat Alex Britti and Stefano Secco), a crossover album that collects operatic influences, Mediterranean melodies, blues accents; Cecilia debut at the Teatro di Reggio Calabria, with four of her compositions for harp and orchestra.
In 2010 she won the International Award "Profilo Donna"; has composed a "Tarantella" for the radio program "Fegiz Files". Her concerts are a kind of "experience and developmental therapy", accompanied by texts and words that also reveal her talent as an actress and performer. Special features: on the contrary can write with her left hand. She loves nature, meditation and travel. She is currently working on a theatrical show and her new album.
Raised in a musical family, daughter of the composer Luciano Chailly
Luciano Chailly
Luciano Chailly was an Italian composer and arts administrator. He is the father of harpist Cecilia Chailly and conductor Riccardo Chailly. As a composer, Chailly was best-known for his operas, many of which were composed to libretti by Dino Buzzati.-Reference:*...
, sister of Riccardo
Riccardo Chailly
Riccardo Chailly, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI is an Italian conductor. He started his career as an opera conductor and gradually extended his repertoire to encompass symphonic music.-Biography:...
conductor
Conducting
Conducting is the art of directing a musical performance by way of visible gestures. The primary duties of the conductor are to unify performers, set the tempo, execute clear preparations and beats, and to listen critically and shape the sound of the ensemble...
, has built a personal journey, breaking away from classical roots soon to experience her music, her inner world and creativity. She studied composition with Azio Corghi at the Milan Conservatory and nineteen years old she was invited by her teacher to replace her as the first harp in the orchestra of La Scala in Milan. She has worked for Giorgio Strehler
Giorgio Strehler
Giorgio Strehler was an Italian opera and theatre director.-Biography:Strehler was born in Barcola, Trieste to an Austrian father and a Franco-Slovene mother; he grew up speaking Italian but spoke French well and his German was passable. He became suddenly fatherless at the age of three, his...
's Piccolo Teatro of Milan and then began an intense career as a classical performer. With Ludovico Einaudi
Ludovico Einaudi
Ludovico Einaudi OMRI is an Italian contemporary music composer and pianist.-Biography:Born in Turin, Italy, Einaudi's mother played to him on the piano as a child. He began his musical training at the Conservatorio Verdi in Milan, gaining a diploma in composition in 1982...
produced the album "Stanze" (BMG 1992) with electric harp which is the pioneer; debuted at Queen Elisabeth Hall in London and some songs become the soundtrack of the film "Fuori dal mondo" by Giuseppe Piccioni. She worked with John Cage
John Cage
John Milton Cage Jr. was an American composer, music theorist, writer, philosopher and artist. A pioneer of indeterminacy in music, electroacoustic music, and non-standard use of musical instruments, Cage was one of the leading figures of the post-war avant-garde...
, David Parsons, Mina
Mina (singer)
Anna Maria Quaini, Grand Officer , known as Mina, is an Italian pop singer. She was a staple of Italian television variety shows and a dominant figure in Italian pop music from the mid-1960s to mid-1970s known for her three-octave vocal range, the agility of her soprano voice, and her image as an...
, Andrea Bocelli
Andrea Bocelli
Andrea Bocelli, is an Italian tenor, multi-instrumentalist and classical crossover artist. Born with poor eyesight, he became blind at the age of twelve following a soccer accident....
Fabrizio De André
Fabrizio De André
Fabrizio De André was an Italian singer-songwriter.Known for his sympathies towards anarchism, libertarianism, and pacifism, he also was a convicted atheist , and his songs often featured marginalized and rebellious people, prostitutes and knaves, and attacked the Catholic Church...
Teresa De Sio
Teresa De Sio
Teresa De Sio is an Italian folk singer-songwriter and the sister of the actress Giuliana De Sio.-Biography and career:She was born in Naples and lived in Cava de' Tirreni, the originary town of her family...
Giorgio Conte Lucio Dalla
Lucio Dalla
Lucio Dalla is a popular Italian singer-songwriter and musician. He also plays clarinet and keyboards.He is the composer of Caruso , which has been covered by numerous international artists...
, Ron
Ron
Ron is a panchayat town in Gadag district, North Karnataka in the Indian state of Karnataka.Of historical importance, called Dronapur in ancient times...
, Morgan
Morgan (singer)
Marco Castoldi better known by his stage name Morgan is an Italian singer, musician and multi-instrumentalist...
Planet Funk
Planet Funk
Planet Funk is an Italian electronic dance musical ensemble.Members are Sergio Della Monica, Alex Neri, Domenico GG Canu, Marco Baroni, Alex Uhlmann and Alessandro Sommella , in addition to a series of guest singers in collaboration, like Dan Black, Sally Doherty, Raiz and John Graham...
Gianni Morandi
Gianni Morandi
Gianni Morandi is an Italian pop singer and entertainer.He made his debut in 1962 and quickly placed high at or won a number of Italian popular song festivals, including the Canzonissima festival in 1969. In 1970, he represented Italy at the Eurovision Song Contest with "Occhi di ragazza"...
, Le vibrazioni
Le Vibrazioni
Le Vibrazioni is an Italian rock and pop band formed in Milan in 1999 that is still active. Its albums were issued by BMG.They made their breakthrough in 2003 with their debut single Dedicato a te, which went platinum....
, Alex Britti
Alex Britti
Alessandro "Alex" Britti is an Italian singer-songwriter and guitarist.-Biography:At the age of 17 he started his first band playing blues at various clubs in Rome, eventually he moved to Milan at the center of the Italian pop scene...
, Hector Zazou
Hector Zazou
Hector Zazou was a prolific French composer and record producer who worked with, produced, and collaborated with an international array of recording artists...
.
Sensitive to changes in generations and Eastern philosophies, in 1996 in California she recorded the albumAnima(Warner) (feat David Darling, Andrea de Carlo, Mike Marshall) which won the Prix De Sica. Transmitted in Alitalia flights, for years the Cecilia's music and the video image become the symbol of the TV channel Rai Sat. She performed for Krizia, Laura Biagiotti, Nino Cerruti, has been testimonial for Missoni, Costume National, Fendi, Alviero Martini first class, Joshihiko Ogawa.
In 1998 she published the novel "Era dell'amore" (Bompiani), which won several awards. Some of her songs become the soundtrack to the filmNonhosonnoby Dario Argento andMai più come primaby Giacomo Campiotti, and several theatrical shows including "Felicità di una stella", a children's show represented in various European countries. In Milan she performed for the Dalai Lama
Dalai Lama
The Dalai Lama is a high lama in the Gelug or "Yellow Hat" branch of Tibetan Buddhism. The name is a combination of the Mongolian word далай meaning "Ocean" and the Tibetan word bla-ma meaning "teacher"...
and in 2000 she took part, with great success, in the concert in memory of Fabrizio De André
Fabrizio De André
Fabrizio De André was an Italian singer-songwriter.Known for his sympathies towards anarchism, libertarianism, and pacifism, he also was a convicted atheist , and his songs often featured marginalized and rebellious people, prostitutes and knaves, and attacked the Catholic Church...
at Carlo Felice theater in Genoa. It was the debut as a singer, which leads her to produce the albumAma(Sony, 2002), supported by Lucio Fabbri and his violin, including her arrangements, orchestrations, songs and experimental sounds that cross the pop
Pop music
Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...
, the techno
Techno
Techno is a form of electronic dance music that emerged in Detroit, Michigan in the United States during the mid to late 1980s. The first recorded use of the word techno, in reference to a genre of music, was in 1988...
, the trance and World Music
World music
World music is a term with widely varying definitions, often encompassing music which is primarily identified as another genre. This is evidenced by world music definitions such as "all of the music in the world" or "somebody else's local music"...
.
In 2003 she was invited to the Montreaux Jazz Festival, she played in the Vatican for Pope John Paul II. In 2006, alongside Ron
Ron
Ron is a panchayat town in Gadag district, North Karnataka in the Indian state of Karnataka.Of historical importance, called Dronapur in ancient times...
at the Sanremo Festival in the song "L'uomo delle stelle". In 2007 she released the album, Alone (Emi), described as "delightful" by Ennio Morricone
Ennio Morricone
Ennio Morricone, Grand Officer OMRI, , is an Italian composer and conductor, who wrote music to more than 500 motion pictures and television series, in a career lasting over 50 years. His scores have been included in over 20 award-winning films as well as several symphonic and choral pieces...
and "deeply moving and meditative" by singer Sting, performed and recorded alone at home with various acoustic instruments, except the song "Living Room" with the participation of Ludovico Einaudi's piano. In 2009 she released "Istanti" (Egea), (feat Alex Britti and Stefano Secco), a crossover album that collects operatic influences, Mediterranean melodies, blues accents; Cecilia debut at the Teatro di Reggio Calabria, with four of her compositions for harp and orchestra.
In 2010 she won the International Award "Profilo Donna"; has composed a "Tarantella" for the radio program "Fegiz Files". Her concerts are a kind of "experience and developmental therapy", accompanied by texts and words that also reveal her talent as an actress and performer. Special features: on the contrary can write with her left hand. She loves nature, meditation and travel. She is currently working on a theatrical show and her new album.
Awards
Premio Internazionale Profilo Donna 2010, De Sica, Rapallo Opera Prima, Elsa Morante Opera Prima,Reggio Calabria Opera Prima.Album
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- 1997 Anima (CGD East-West), Premio De Sica '97 per la musica
- 1992 Stanze (Bmg Ricordi) Music by Ludovico Einaudi, Harp by Cecilia Chailly
- 2002 Ama (Sony)
- 2006 Alone (Emi classics)
- 2009 Istanti" (Egea)
- Collaborations:
- Mina (Ridi pagliaccio - PDU 1988);
- Ludovico EinaudiLudovico EinaudiLudovico Einaudi OMRI is an Italian contemporary music composer and pianist.-Biography:Born in Turin, Italy, Einaudi's mother played to him on the piano as a child. He began his musical training at the Conservatorio Verdi in Milan, gaining a diploma in composition in 1982...
(Stanze - BMG - Ricordi 1992); - Fabrizio De AndréFabrizio De AndréFabrizio De André was an Italian singer-songwriter.Known for his sympathies towards anarchism, libertarianism, and pacifism, he also was a convicted atheist , and his songs often featured marginalized and rebellious people, prostitutes and knaves, and attacked the Catholic Church...
(Anime salve - BMG 1996); - Andrea BocelliAndrea BocelliAndrea Bocelli, is an Italian tenor, multi-instrumentalist and classical crossover artist. Born with poor eyesight, he became blind at the age of twelve following a soccer accident....
(Sogno Sugar - 1999); - Teresa De SioTeresa De SioTeresa De Sio is an Italian folk singer-songwriter and the sister of the actress Giuliana De Sio.-Biography and career:She was born in Naples and lived in Cava de' Tirreni, the originary town of her family...
; - Giorgio Conte;
- Lucio DallaLucio DallaLucio Dalla is a popular Italian singer-songwriter and musician. He also plays clarinet and keyboards.He is the composer of Caruso , which has been covered by numerous international artists...
; - Mike MarshallMike MarshallMike Marshall may refer to:*Mike Marshall , American Major League Baseball outfielder from 1981-1991*Mike Marshall , American Major League Baseball pitcher from 1967-81...
; - David DarlingDavid DarlingDavid Darling may refer to:*David Darling , American cellist and composer*David Darling , English astronomer*David Darling , British co-founder of computer game producer Codemasters...
; - David ParsonsDavid ParsonsDavid Joseph Parsons has been the England and Wales Cricket Board's National Spin Bowling Coach since 27 January 2006....
; - John CageJohn CageJohn Milton Cage Jr. was an American composer, music theorist, writer, philosopher and artist. A pioneer of indeterminacy in music, electroacoustic music, and non-standard use of musical instruments, Cage was one of the leading figures of the post-war avant-garde...
; - Hector ZazouHector ZazouHector Zazou was a prolific French composer and record producer who worked with, produced, and collaborated with an international array of recording artists...
; - Planet FunkPlanet FunkPlanet Funk is an Italian electronic dance musical ensemble.Members are Sergio Della Monica, Alex Neri, Domenico GG Canu, Marco Baroni, Alex Uhlmann and Alessandro Sommella , in addition to a series of guest singers in collaboration, like Dan Black, Sally Doherty, Raiz and John Graham...
(The Illogical Consequence - EMI 2005); - RonRonRon is a panchayat town in Gadag district, North Karnataka in the Indian state of Karnataka.Of historical importance, called Dronapur in ancient times...
(Ma quando dici amore - Sony BMG 2006); - MorganMorgan-Places:Australia*Morgan, South AustraliaCanada*Morgan, OntarioUnited States*Morgan, California*Morgan, Georgia*Morgan, Minnesota*Morgan, Texas*Morgan, Utah*Morgan, Vermont*Morgan, Wisconsin, a town...
"Da A ad A" BMG-2007]]; - Alex BrittiAlex BrittiAlessandro "Alex" Britti is an Italian singer-songwriter and guitarist.-Biography:At the age of 17 he started his first band playing blues at various clubs in Rome, eventually he moved to Milan at the center of the Italian pop scene...
"Punto 23" Universal 2009]]; - Le VibrazioniLe VibrazioniLe Vibrazioni is an Italian rock and pop band formed in Milan in 1999 that is still active. Its albums were issued by BMG.They made their breakthrough in 2003 with their debut single Dedicato a te, which went platinum....
"Le strade del tempo" RCA 2010]]; - Eva Quartet & Hechtor Zazou "Elen Music 2011" Special Guests: Laurie Anderson, Bulgara Group, Cecilia Chailly, Antoni Donchev, Robert Fripp, Bill Frisell, Bill Rieflin (REM), Ryuichi Sakamoto, etc.;
Soundtracks participations
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- Nonhosonno di Dario Argento.
- Mai più come prima di Giacomo Campiotti.
- Fuori dal mondoFuori Dal MondoNot of this World or Fuori Dal Mondo is an awarded Italian drama film directed by Giuseppe Piccioni. The translation for Fuori Dal Mondo is 'outside from the world'-Cast:*Margherita Buy: Sister Caterina*Silvio Orlando: Ernesto...
di Giuseppe Piccioni.
Theater
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- Felicità di una stella children's show by Dario Moretti (Teatro all'Improvviso), Musica by Cecilia Chailly
- SaffoSaffoSaffo may refer to:*Saffò, 1840 opera by Pacini*Paul Saffo , American technology forecaster*Saffo the Greek, American organised crime figure, early 20th century*Saffo Music, 1977 album by Lara Saint Paul-See also:...
from Saffo's Fragments, reading and music by Cecilia Chailly
External links
- http://www.ceciliachailly.com
- http://www.facebook.com/pages/Cecilia-Chailly/50117070339
- http://www.myspace.com/ceciliachailly
- http://www.youtube.com/user/creativharp?feature=mhum