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Ronchetti, Lucia (b. February 3, 1963, Rome). Italian composer of mostly stage, orchestral and chamber works that have been performed throughout Europe.
Ms. Ronchetti studied composition with Mauro Bortolotti and electronic music with Riccardo Bianchini at the Conservatorio di Santa Cecilia in Rome, where she earned diplomas in both subjects in 1987. She then earned a master's degree on the orchestral music of Bruno Maderna under the tutelage of Pierluigi Petrobelli at the Università 'La Sapienza' in Rome in 1987 and a diplôme d'études approfondies under the tutelage of Costin Miereanu at the Université de Paris I-Panthéon-Sorbonne in 1991. She later studied composition privately with Gérard Grisey in Paris from 1993-96, on a fellowship from the Fondation Nadia Boulanger, and earned her doctorate at the École Pratique des Hautes Études en Sorbonne in 2000, on a grant from the Fondation des Treilles in Tourtour.
Among her honors are a diploma in the Budapest competition (1987, for Tenebrosa, per difetto di luna [withdrawn]), a selected work in the Dimitris Mitropoulos competition in Athens (1997, for Schiffbruch mit Zuschauer [da Hans Blumenberg] [Study]) and a prize from the Federazione CEMAT (2000, to compose BendelSchlemihl). She has also served residencies at the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart (2000-01) and the MacDowell Colony (2003), as well as terms as composer-in-residence to the Staatsoper Stuttgart (2003-04) and as a Visiting Scholar at Columbia University (2004-05). Most recently, she earned a Fulbright Fellowship (2005) and a fellowship from the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (2005-06).
She has received commissions from the Bayerische Staatsoper, the Biennale München, Ensemble 2e2m, ensemble recherche, the Experimentalstudio of the Heinrich-Strobel-Stiftung in Freiburg, the governments of France and Italy, the concert series Musik im 21. Jahrhundert, ORF, Radio France, RAI, the Staatsoper Stuttgart, the Teatro La Fenice, the Teatro Sociale in Rovigo, the Technische Universität Berlin, the WDR Sinfonieorchester, and the Wittener Tage für Neue Kammermusik.
CONTACT INFORMATION
E-mail address: luciaronchetti@libero.it
SELECT LIST OF WORKS
STAGE: Die Nase (1 act puppet opera, scenario by Sigrid Maurice, after Nikolay Gogol, puppet theatre by Stefan Fichert), clarinet, cello, piano, 1994; BendelSchlemihl (1 act street opera, text by Ivan Vladislavic, after Adelbert von Chamisso), accordion, CD, live electronics, 2000-01; L'ape apatica (1 act opera for children, libretto by Toti Scialoja), soprano, 6 children's voices, trombone, percussion, CD, live electronics, drawings (by Toti Scialoja), 2001; Last Desire (1 act tragedy, libretto by Tina Hartmann, after Oscar Wilde), boy soprano, countertenor, bass, viola, live electronics, 2004
ORCHESTRAL: Die Sorge geht über den Fluss (da Hans Blumenberg), flute, clarinet, orchestra, 1995; Schiffbruch mit Zuschauer (da Hans Blumenberg) (Study), 1999; Quaderno Gotico (Study), 2000-01; Déclive-étude (Berceuse), 2001-02; Arborescence (In memoriam Giuseppe Sinopoli), small orchestra, 2004
CHAMBER MUSIC: Mehr Vogel als Engel (da Paul Klee), double bass, 1994; Krise eines Engels (da Paul Klee), flute, clarinet, violin, piano, 1995; Éluvion-étude, viola, live electronics, 1997; Geographisches Heft (Studio per Adolf Wölfli), flute, oboe, bassoon, French horn, trumpet, trombone, violin, viola, cello, 2001; Mirages, string quartet, 2002; Talia, flute, viola, cello, piano, percussion, 2003; In the shape of anxieties (In Nomine Studio), flute, clarinet, violin, viola, cello, piano, 2005; Opus 100 (Kriptomnesie da Schubert), violin, cello, piano, 2005; The glazed roof (A Study of Equilibrium by Ieoh Ming Pei), harp, piano, marimba, string quartet, 2005
CHORAL: Anatra al sal (comedia harmonica, text by Ermanno Cavazzoni), 6 mixed voices, 2000; Hombre de mucha gravedad (Drammaturgia da 'Las Meninas' di Velázquez) (texts from various 17th-century Italian, Spanish authors, compiled by Andrea Fortina), 4 mixed voices, string quartet, 2002
VOCAL: Les propos de Shitao (Study) (text by Shitao [translated by Pierre Ryckmans]), mezzo-soprano, flute, clarinet, violin, piano, 1999-2000
CARILLON: Come un acciar che non ha macchia alcuna (Studio sulla luna da Ludovico Ariosto), carillon, CD, 2005
ELECTROACOUSTIC: Il sonno di Atys, viola, computer, 2002-03
DISCOGRAPHY
Krise eines Engels (da Paul Klee). Alter Ego (Limen: CDS01-C005-3, 2001)
Anatra al sal. Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart (Stradivarius: STR 33680, 2004)
(Last updated on March 13, 2006)
