Lucia Ronchetti
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Lucia Ronchetti is a contemporary Italian composer.
and took part in composition seminars with Sylvano Bussotti
at the Scuola di Musica of Fiesole (1981-85) and with Salvatore Sciarrino
at the Corsi Internazionali of Città di Castello (1988-1989).
She studied humanities at the Sapienza University of Rome, where she got her degree in 1987, presenting a dissertation on Bruno Maderna
's orchestral compositions.
In 1991 she received a Diplôme d'Études Approfondies (D.E.A.) in aesthetics from the University of Paris
I-Sorbonne. She subsequently studied musicology with François Lesure at the École Pratique des Hautes Études
en Sorbonne and received a doctorate with her thesis on the orchestral style of Ernest Chausson
and Wagnerian influence on late 19th century French orchestral writing.
In Paris she participated in composition seminars with Gérard Grisey
(1993-1996) and took part in the annual computer music courses at IRCAM
(1997) under the supervision of Tristan Murail.
In 2005 she was a Visiting Scholar (Fulbright Fellow) at the Music Department of Columbia University
(New York), having been invited by Tristan Murail
1.
Her works have been published by Rai Trade, Durand, Ricordi and Lemoine, and produced, commissioned and performed by such institutions as the Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich; Konzerthaus, Berlin; Rai Radio Tre, Rome; Deutschland Radio Kultur, Berlin; Ensemble Modern, Frankfurt; MaerzMusik, Berlin; Musik der Jahrhunderte, Stuttgart; Deutschland Radio, Berlin; Ensemble Recherche, Freiburg; Festival Ultrashall, Berlin; Orchestra of the Rai, Turin; WDR Sinfonieorchester, Cologne; Teatro La Fenice, Venice; Wittener Tagen, Witten; G. R. M., Radio France, Paris; and the Munich Biennale
.
2006 Composer-in-residence, Yaddo, New York
2005-06 Composer in residence, Berliner Künstlerprogramm, D.A.A.D.
2005 Visiting Scholar (Fulbright Fellow), Columbia University, New York
2003-04 Composer-in-residence, Staatsoper Stuttgart (ForumNeues Musiktheater)
2003 Composer-in-residence, The MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, (USA)
2000-01 Composer-in-residence, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart
2000 Composition Prize, Federazione Cemat, Rome
1997 Fellowship, Fondation des Treilles, Paris
1997 Dimitri Mitropoulos International Composition Prize, Athens
1997 Erato-Farnesina Fellowship, Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
1995 “Progetto Dionysos” Composition Prize, Italian Ministry of Culture
1993 Composer-in-residence, Fondation Nadia Boulanger, Paris
1988-92 Doctoral Studies Fellowship, Italian Ministry of Universities
In 2003 she started working at the Experimentalstudio of Freiburg, where she wrote a cycle of compositions that explore the sound configuration of the viola, with the assistance of André Richard, Reinhold Braig and Joachim Haas and in collaboration with the violist Barbara Maurer; it was presented in Berlin (Festival Ultrashall 2007) and is called “Xylocopa Violacea” (CD Stradivarius 2010)2.
In the last few years, Lucia Ronchetti has been working on the compositional treatment of the voice, collaborating intensively with the Neue Vocalsolisten of Stuttgart, one of the foremost European ensembles specializing in contemporary vocal music3.
Their collaboration has resulted in eight different productions: Studio detto dei venti, for four voices, 2010; Le voyage d’Urien, for voices and ensemble, 2008; Hamlet’s Mill, for voices, viola and cello, 2007; Coins and Crosses, for six voices, 2007; Pinocchio, una storia parallela, for four male voices, 2005; Last Desire, chamber opera for treble voice, countertenor and bass, 20034 5; Hombre de mucha gravedad, for four voices and string quartet, 2002; Anatra al sal, Comedia harmonica for six voices, 2000 (CD Kairos 2010).
She has realized numerous music theatre projects inspired by the social scene6, exploring, in the dramaturgy, the concept of otherness (BendelSchlemihl, Strasse-opern, 2000, text by Ivan Vladislavic); outsider groups and dysptopia (Narrenschiffe, in-transit action, 2010, text after Sebastian Brant)7; limen/border (Der Sonne entgegen, chamber opera, 2009, text by Steffi Hansel)8; transitory mental illness (Le voyage d’Urien, drammaturgia, text after Gide and 19th century psychiatric reportages, 2008); sub-urbanity (Rumori da monumenti, drammaturgia, text by Ivan Vladislavic, 2007); and Sebenza e-mine, Radio Play, in collaboration with Philip Miller, 2010).
For her music theatre projects she has collaborated with writers Ermanno Cavazzoni, Ivan Vladislavic, Eugene Ostashevsky; artists Toti Scialoja, Alberto Sorbelli, Judith Cahen, Dörte Meyer, Adrian Tranquilli, Elisabetta Benassi, Mirella Weingarten; and sound designers Marie-Hélène Serra, Folkmar Hein, André Richard, Reinhold Braig, Carl Faia, Olivier Pasquet and Thomas Seelig.
Lezioni di tenebra (2010) for voices and ensemble, after the Giasone by Francesco Cavalli
Narrenschiffe (2009-2010) In-transit actions after Sebastian Brant
Der Sonne entgegen (2007- 2009) for 14 voices, ensemble and live (text by S. Hensel)
Last Desire (2004) for treble voice, countertenor, bass, viola and live (text from O.Wilde)
L’ape apatica (2001) for treble voices, ensemble and live (text by Toti Scialoja)
Le tentazioni di Girolamo (1995) for actor, soloists and live electronics (text by E.Cavazzoni)
Musikfässli (1994) for actor, soloists and live electronics after Adolf Wölfli
Theatrical concert works
Prosopopeia (2009) for vocal ensemble and instrumental ensemble9
Rumori da monumenti (2008) for recorded voice and ensemble (text by I. Vladislavic)10
Le Voyage d’Urien (2008) for 5 voices and ensemble
Xylocopa Violacea (2007) for solo viola and live electronics
Albertine (2007) for female voice and whispering public (text from M.Proust)
Hamlet’s Mill (2007) for soprano, bass, viola and cello (text by E. Ostashevsky )
Pinocchio, una storia parallela (2005) for four male voices (text from G.Manganelli)
Hombre de mucha gravedad (2002) for vocal quartet and string quartet
BendelSchlemihl (2000) for recorded voices, accordion and live (text by I. Vladislavic)
Anatra al sal (1999) Comedia harmonica for six voices (text by E. Cavazzoni)
Orchestral works
Arborescence (2004)
Déclive-Étude (2002)
Quaderno gotico (1999)
Schiffbruch mit Zuschauer (1995, rev. 1999)
Die Sorge getht über den Fluss (1995) for flute, clarinet and orchestra
Chamber music works
Rosso pompeiano (2010) Scherzo for ensemble
Studio detto dei venti (2010) A medley attempt for 6 voices
Like winter moving backwards (2009) A study for one piano, four hands
Le nuove musiche di Giulio Caccini detto Romano, 1601, Lesson for solo voice (2008)
Coins and crosses (2007) A Yessong, for vocal ensemble
In shape of Anxieties (2005) In Nomine Studio for ensemble
The Glazed Roof (2005) for ensemble
Opus 100 (2005) Kriptomnesie da Schubert, for violino, cello and piano
Il sonno di Atys (2004) for viola and live electronics
Geographisches Heft (2001) Studio da Adolf Wölfli, for ensemble
Radio Plays
Sebenza e-mine (2010) in collaboration with Philip Miller
Il Castello d’Atlante (2007)
Rivelazione (1998) in collaboration with Ermanno Cavazzoni
Rai Trade
http://www.durand-salabert eschig.com/formcat/actuel/durand_eschig/catalogo_RONCHETTI_DS.pdf
(French) A biography of Lucia Ronchetti, from IRCAM's website
www.dersonneentgegen.org
www.lastdesire.org
Biography
Lucia Ronchetti studied composition and computer music at the Conservatory of Santa Cecilia in RomeAccademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
The Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia is one of the oldest musical institutions in the world, based in Italy.It is based at the Auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome, and was founded by the papal bull, Ratione congruit, issued by Sixtus V in 1585, which invoked two saints prominent in Western...
and took part in composition seminars with Sylvano Bussotti
Sylvano Bussotti
Sylvano Bussotti is an Italian composer of contemporary music whose work is unusually notated and often creates special problems of interpretation.Born in Florence, Bussotti learned to play the violin as a child, becoming a prodigy...
at the Scuola di Musica of Fiesole (1981-85) and with Salvatore Sciarrino
Salvatore Sciarrino
Salvatore Sciarrino is an Italian composer of contemporary classical music.-Biography:In his youth, Sciarrino was attracted to the visual arts, but began experimenting with music when he was twelve. Though he had some lessons from Antonino Titone and Turi Belfiore, he is primarily self-taught as a...
at the Corsi Internazionali of Città di Castello (1988-1989).
She studied humanities at the Sapienza University of Rome, where she got her degree in 1987, presenting a dissertation on Bruno Maderna
Bruno Maderna
Bruno Maderna was an Italian conductor and composer. For the last ten years of his life he lived in Germany and eventually became a citizen of that country.-Biography:...
's orchestral compositions.
In 1991 she received a Diplôme d'Études Approfondies (D.E.A.) in aesthetics from the University of Paris
University of Paris
The University of Paris was a university located in Paris, France and one of the earliest to be established in Europe. It was founded in the mid 12th century, and officially recognized as a university probably between 1160 and 1250...
I-Sorbonne. She subsequently studied musicology with François Lesure at the École Pratique des Hautes Études
École pratique des hautes études
The École pratique des hautes études is a Grand Établissement in Paris, France. It is counted among France's most prestigious research and higher education institutions....
en Sorbonne and received a doctorate with her thesis on the orchestral style of Ernest Chausson
Ernest Chausson
Amédée-Ernest Chausson was a French romantic composer who died just as his career was beginning to flourish.-Life:Ernest Chausson was born in Paris into a prosperous bourgeois family...
and Wagnerian influence on late 19th century French orchestral writing.
In Paris she participated in composition seminars with Gérard Grisey
Gérard Grisey
Gérard Grisey was a French composer of contemporary music.-Biography:Gérard Grisey was born in Belfort, France on 17 June 1946. He studied at the Trossingen Conservatory in Germany from 1963 to 1965 before entering the Conservatoire de Paris...
(1993-1996) and took part in the annual computer music courses at IRCAM
IRCAM
IRCAM is a European institute for science about music and sound and avant garde electro-acoustical art music. It is situated next to, and is organizationally linked with, the Centre Pompidou in Paris...
(1997) under the supervision of Tristan Murail.
In 2005 she was a Visiting Scholar (Fulbright Fellow) at the Music Department of Columbia University
Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
(New York), having been invited by Tristan Murail
Tristan Murail
Tristan Murail is a French composer. His father, Gérard Murail, is a poet and his mother, Marie-Thérèse Barrois, a journalist. One of his brothers, Lorris Murail, and his younger sister Elvire Murail, aka Moka, also write, and his younger sister Marie-Aude Murail is a French children's writer...
1.
Her works have been published by Rai Trade, Durand, Ricordi and Lemoine, and produced, commissioned and performed by such institutions as the Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich; Konzerthaus, Berlin; Rai Radio Tre, Rome; Deutschland Radio Kultur, Berlin; Ensemble Modern, Frankfurt; MaerzMusik, Berlin; Musik der Jahrhunderte, Stuttgart; Deutschland Radio, Berlin; Ensemble Recherche, Freiburg; Festival Ultrashall, Berlin; Orchestra of the Rai, Turin; WDR Sinfonieorchester, Cologne; Teatro La Fenice, Venice; Wittener Tagen, Witten; G. R. M., Radio France, Paris; and the Munich Biennale
Munich Biennale
The Munich Biennale is an opera festival in the city of Munich. The full German name is Internationales Festival für neues Musiktheater, literally: International Festival for New Music Theater. The biennial festival was created in 1988 by Hans Werner Henze and is held in even-numbered years over...
.
Awards and recognition
2008 Music Theatre Now Prize (International Theatre Institute)2006 Composer-in-residence, Yaddo, New York
2005-06 Composer in residence, Berliner Künstlerprogramm, D.A.A.D.
2005 Visiting Scholar (Fulbright Fellow), Columbia University, New York
2003-04 Composer-in-residence, Staatsoper Stuttgart (ForumNeues Musiktheater)
2003 Composer-in-residence, The MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, (USA)
2000-01 Composer-in-residence, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart
2000 Composition Prize, Federazione Cemat, Rome
1997 Fellowship, Fondation des Treilles, Paris
1997 Dimitri Mitropoulos International Composition Prize, Athens
1997 Erato-Farnesina Fellowship, Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
1995 “Progetto Dionysos” Composition Prize, Italian Ministry of Culture
1993 Composer-in-residence, Fondation Nadia Boulanger, Paris
1988-92 Doctoral Studies Fellowship, Italian Ministry of Universities
Works
Starting in 1998, she realized various productions at the Berlin Institute of Technology (TUB) in collaboration with Folkmar Hein.In 2003 she started working at the Experimentalstudio of Freiburg, where she wrote a cycle of compositions that explore the sound configuration of the viola, with the assistance of André Richard, Reinhold Braig and Joachim Haas and in collaboration with the violist Barbara Maurer; it was presented in Berlin (Festival Ultrashall 2007) and is called “Xylocopa Violacea” (CD Stradivarius 2010)2.
In the last few years, Lucia Ronchetti has been working on the compositional treatment of the voice, collaborating intensively with the Neue Vocalsolisten of Stuttgart, one of the foremost European ensembles specializing in contemporary vocal music3.
Their collaboration has resulted in eight different productions: Studio detto dei venti, for four voices, 2010; Le voyage d’Urien, for voices and ensemble, 2008; Hamlet’s Mill, for voices, viola and cello, 2007; Coins and Crosses, for six voices, 2007; Pinocchio, una storia parallela, for four male voices, 2005; Last Desire, chamber opera for treble voice, countertenor and bass, 20034 5; Hombre de mucha gravedad, for four voices and string quartet, 2002; Anatra al sal, Comedia harmonica for six voices, 2000 (CD Kairos 2010).
She has realized numerous music theatre projects inspired by the social scene6, exploring, in the dramaturgy, the concept of otherness (BendelSchlemihl, Strasse-opern, 2000, text by Ivan Vladislavic); outsider groups and dysptopia (Narrenschiffe, in-transit action, 2010, text after Sebastian Brant)7; limen/border (Der Sonne entgegen, chamber opera, 2009, text by Steffi Hansel)8; transitory mental illness (Le voyage d’Urien, drammaturgia, text after Gide and 19th century psychiatric reportages, 2008); sub-urbanity (Rumori da monumenti, drammaturgia, text by Ivan Vladislavic, 2007); and Sebenza e-mine, Radio Play, in collaboration with Philip Miller, 2010).
For her music theatre projects she has collaborated with writers Ermanno Cavazzoni, Ivan Vladislavic, Eugene Ostashevsky; artists Toti Scialoja, Alberto Sorbelli, Judith Cahen, Dörte Meyer, Adrian Tranquilli, Elisabetta Benassi, Mirella Weingarten; and sound designers Marie-Hélène Serra, Folkmar Hein, André Richard, Reinhold Braig, Carl Faia, Olivier Pasquet and Thomas Seelig.
List of recent works
Music theatreLezioni di tenebra (2010) for voices and ensemble, after the Giasone by Francesco Cavalli
Narrenschiffe (2009-2010) In-transit actions after Sebastian Brant
Der Sonne entgegen (2007- 2009) for 14 voices, ensemble and live (text by S. Hensel)
Last Desire (2004) for treble voice, countertenor, bass, viola and live (text from O.Wilde)
L’ape apatica (2001) for treble voices, ensemble and live (text by Toti Scialoja)
Le tentazioni di Girolamo (1995) for actor, soloists and live electronics (text by E.Cavazzoni)
Musikfässli (1994) for actor, soloists and live electronics after Adolf Wölfli
Theatrical concert works
Prosopopeia (2009) for vocal ensemble and instrumental ensemble9
Rumori da monumenti (2008) for recorded voice and ensemble (text by I. Vladislavic)10
Le Voyage d’Urien (2008) for 5 voices and ensemble
Xylocopa Violacea (2007) for solo viola and live electronics
Albertine (2007) for female voice and whispering public (text from M.Proust)
Hamlet’s Mill (2007) for soprano, bass, viola and cello (text by E. Ostashevsky )
Pinocchio, una storia parallela (2005) for four male voices (text from G.Manganelli)
Hombre de mucha gravedad (2002) for vocal quartet and string quartet
BendelSchlemihl (2000) for recorded voices, accordion and live (text by I. Vladislavic)
Anatra al sal (1999) Comedia harmonica for six voices (text by E. Cavazzoni)
Orchestral works
Arborescence (2004)
Déclive-Étude (2002)
Quaderno gotico (1999)
Schiffbruch mit Zuschauer (1995, rev. 1999)
Die Sorge getht über den Fluss (1995) for flute, clarinet and orchestra
Chamber music works
Rosso pompeiano (2010) Scherzo for ensemble
Studio detto dei venti (2010) A medley attempt for 6 voices
Like winter moving backwards (2009) A study for one piano, four hands
Le nuove musiche di Giulio Caccini detto Romano, 1601, Lesson for solo voice (2008)
Coins and crosses (2007) A Yessong, for vocal ensemble
In shape of Anxieties (2005) In Nomine Studio for ensemble
The Glazed Roof (2005) for ensemble
Opus 100 (2005) Kriptomnesie da Schubert, for violino, cello and piano
Il sonno di Atys (2004) for viola and live electronics
Geographisches Heft (2001) Studio da Adolf Wölfli, for ensemble
Radio Plays
Sebenza e-mine (2010) in collaboration with Philip Miller
Il Castello d’Atlante (2007)
Rivelazione (1998) in collaboration with Ermanno Cavazzoni
External links
- luciaronchetti.com - Official Website
Rai Trade
http://www.durand-salabert eschig.com/formcat/actuel/durand_eschig/catalogo_RONCHETTI_DS.pdf
(French) A biography of Lucia Ronchetti, from IRCAM's website
www.dersonneentgegen.org
www.lastdesire.org