Biography

Solange Ancona was born in Paris

Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...

 and studied at the Conservatoire National Superieur de Paris under Olivier Messiaen

Olivier Messiaen

Olivier Messiaen was a French composer, organist and ornithologist, one of the major composers of the 20th century. His music is rhythmically complex ; harmonically and melodically it is based on modes of limited transposition, which he abstracted from his early compositions and improvisations...

 and Giacinto Scelsi

Giacinto Scelsi

Giacinto Scelsi , Count of Ayala Valva was an Italian composer who also wrote surrealist poetry in French....

. She resided at the Villa Medici

Villa Medici

The Villa Medici is a mannerist villa and an architectural complex with a garden contiguous with the larger Borghese gardens, on the Pincian Hill next to Trinità dei Monti in Rome, Italy. The Villa Medici, founded by Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany and now property of the French...

 between 1973 and 1975.

After completing her studies, Ancona took a position teaching musical analysis and composition at the Conservatoire Régional de Versailles

Versailles

Versailles , a city renowned for its château, the Palace of Versailles, was the de facto capital of the kingdom of France for over a century, from 1682 to 1789. It is now a wealthy suburb of Paris and remains an important administrative and judicial centre...

, where she remained for over thirty years. Noted students include French composer Francois Paris

François Paris

François Paris is a French composer and professor born in 1961 in Valenciennes.He is known for being part of the young generation of composers using microtonal music in the continuation of the spirit of the pioneers of this music.-Life:...

, cellist Florian Lauridon and French composer and pianist Benoît Delbecq

Benoit Delbecq

Benoît Delbecq is a French pianist and composer.Born 6 June 1966 in St Germain en Laye, and raised in a musical environment, Benoît Delbecq started studying the piano in Bougival at the age of seven with Nicolle Mollard, a former student of Alfred Cortot...

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Works

Selected works include:

• Slantze III for soprano and orchestra (text by Dante)
• Thama for solo cello (created by Florian Lauridon)
• Resonanz classical guitar 10-string (created by Sebastian Vaumoron)
• Aïvantcha musical theater (text by Dante)
• Fidélité, inspired by a poem by Louis Valensi

Discography

Releases:

• Snaïa/Proslambanomenos/Anschlag/Sonate Pour Flutes Alto Et Harpes (LP) Point-Radiant 1971
• La Journée De L'Existence (CD, Album)