Composers

Lucia Ronchetti studied Composition and Computer Music at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia and Philosophy at the University of Rome. In Paris, she took composition seminars with GeÌ�rard Grisey, participated in the annual computer music courses at IRCAM (1997) and obtained her PhD in musicology at the EÌ�cole Pratique des Hautes EÌ�tudes en Sorbonne, under the direction of François Lesure (1999).
In 2005 she was Visiting Scholar (Fulbright fellow) at the Columbia University Music Department in New York, at the invitation of Tristan Murail.
Lucia Ronchetti has frequently received grants and been composer in residence: Yaddo, New York; DAAD, Berlin; Staatsoper of Stuttgart; MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH (USA); Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart.
Important working experiences include those with Silvano Bussotti (1981), Salvatore Sciarrino (1989), Hans Werner Henze (1993), Folkmar Hein (1998) and Andre� Richard (2003).
In 2010 her second CD, Xylocopa violacea (Barbara Maurer, Reinhold Braig, Experimentalstudio Freiburg), will be published by Stradivarius, as well as a CD by Kairos, Dramaturgie (Neue Vocalsolisten), and another by Rai Trade, Il Castello di Atlante (Radio Play – Deutschland Radio Kultur).
Recent Works: Toccar con gl’occhi e rimirar col tatto (Music Theatre, Konzerthaus, Berlin, 2010), Der Sonne entgegen (Music Theatre, MärzMusik, Berlin, 2009), Prosopopeia (Theatrical Concert, Internationales Heinrich-Schütz-Fest, Kassel, 2009), Rumori da monumenti (Theatrical Concert, Ensemble Modern/Siemens Arts Foundation, Berlin, 2008), Le voyage d’Urien (Theatrical Concert, Commande d’EÌ�tat, Paris, 2008), Hamlet’s Mill (Theatrical Concert, Musik des Jahrhunderts, Stuttgart, 2007), Albertine (Theatrical Concert, MärzMusik, Berlin, 2007), Xylocopa Violacea (Theatrical Concert, Barbara Maurer, Reinhold Braig, Experimentalstudio of Freiburg, Festival Ultraschall Berlin, 2007).

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