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Vacca, Roberta (b. March 3,
1967, L’Aquila). Italian composer of stage, chamber, vocal, and electroacoustic
works that have been successfully performed throughout Europe.
Ms. Vacca obtained diplomas
in band instrumentation, choral direction, and composition and studied with
Matteo D’Amico and Mauro Cardi
at the conservatory in L’Aquila. She also obtained a superior degree in composition
while studying at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia with Franco Donatoni and Azio
Corghi and won the SIAE bursary for being one of the best students; at the
Accademia Chigiana, she won the Premio Emma Contestabile. She also has a degree
in piano performance (with Francesca Martinini).
She has received numerous
honors from distinguished competitions, including Second Prize in the Domenico
Guaccero (1998), Third Prize in the Gesualdo da Venosa (2000), First Prize in
the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia (2001), and Second Prize in the FIDAPA
(2001) competitions. In addition, she earned First Prize in the Curci (2002),
First Prize in the Egidio Carella (2002), Second Prize in the ICOMS (2002),
Second Prize in the de musique Sacrée (Fribourg,
2002), and First Prize in the Alberto Ginastera (2002) competitions. Her other
awards include the CEMAT Prize (1999) and the G. Spontini International Prize
for Sacred Competition (2001).
She has been a finalist in
the Belveglio (1998), Camillo Togni (2000), FIDAPA (2000), and Notturni alle
conserve (2001) competitions, as well as at the Concours International de
Musique Électroacoustique de Bourges (2001). She has also earned special
mentions for the National Piano Prize de Musica (1999, 2000), as well as at the
Béla Bartók (1997), M.B. Angelo-Comneno (1998), Egidio Carella (2000), Franco
Evangelisti (2000), and G.F. Malipiero (2001) competitions.
She has also participated in
numerous events, including the project Il
suono dei parchi (1997, as chosen by a committee featuring
Louis Andriessen, George Benjamin, Gérard Grisey,
Enzo Restagno, and Roman Vlad), as well as the International Youth Music Forum
(Ukraine, 2001). In addition, she has participated in ISMEAM (Hungary, 2002)
and the Wien Summer Festival (2002).
Her works have been
performed throughout Italy and in Spain, Ukraine and the USA by many ensembles,
including the Antidogma, the Dèdalo, the Ensemble Loïe Fuller, the Ensemble
Nuovo Contrappunto, the Ensemble Strumentale del CGAM, the Freon, the Gruppo
Strumentale Musica d’Oggi, and the Metamorfosi.
As a pianist, she has played throughout Italy and has recorded many times for RAI. In 1991, she co-founded the Duo Pianistico Astarte with Laura Miconi, which won many piano competitions, including the Osimo (1992), the AMA Calabria (1993) and the Città di Pisa (1995). As a member of various ensembles, she has often participated in world premières.
She has been working with the CIMA Polyphonic Chorus for many years and in 1995, she co-founded the Gruppo Teatrale Burattinmusica with the theatre artist Paola Campanini, which works on productions involving music and puppet theatre.
She currently teaches music theory at the Conservatorio A. Casella in L’Aquila.
CONTACT INFORMATION
E-mail address: roberta.vacca@tin.it
Street address: Ms. Roberta Vacca, 5 Via Camerini, I - 67100 L’Aquila,
Italy
Telephone: + 086 241 3568
STAGE: Relazioni (text by Sister Maria
Crocifissa de Tomasi), 2 actresses, piano, 1999; C’era una volta la
Principessa Dispettosa (text by N. Costa), speaker, tape, live electronics,
2000 (collaboration with M. Cardi, M.C. De Amicis, M. Lupone, A. Sbordoni); Lunedì dell’Angelo (text by Beata Angela of Foligno), voice, actress, tape,
2000; Intimorosamente (text by N.
Kimball), actress-speaker, alto saxophone, violin, cello, percussion, 2001; Gattomachia (children’s opera, libretto
by the composer, after Lope de Vega), 2 actress-voices, flute, percussion,
tape, live electronics, 2002; Baby Blues
(incidental music), soprano saxophone, piano, percussion, 2002 (may be
performed as a concert work); Il colore
dei suoni (incidental music), flute, 2002
ORCHESTRAL: Lay replay, string orchestra, 2001; Le stanze della luna, 2002
CHAMBER MUSIC: Micra, piccolo (+ flute, alto flute),
E-flat clarinet (+ clarinet, bass clarinet), percussion, 1995; Frammenti, flute, clarinet, French horn,
harp, violin, viola, cello, percussion, 1996; Amaca, violin, 1996; Bassorilievo,
flute, clarinet, French horn, string quartet, double bass, piano, percussion,
1997; Rituale, violin, viola, cello,
1998; Ritorni, string quartet, 1998; L’anello
fra le dita (text by Ovid), speaker, flute, clarinet, harp, string quartet,
1999 (also version for flute, clarinet, string quartet, vibraphone, 2000); Another flashing chance, amplified bass
flute, electric guitar, 2000; L’ami, flute, oboe, clarinet, bass
clarinet, tenor saxophone, 2001; Ridonda
(text by Gabriele D’Annunzio), speaker, ensemble, 2001; Baby Blues, soprano saxophone, piano, percussion, 2002 (concert
version of incidental music); Inonda,
piccolo (+ alto flute, percussion), 2002
CHORAL: Contramor (texts by C. Bertola, Torquato
Tasso), soprano, bass, mixed chorus, large orchestra, 1998; Eya (anonymous text from Caecilia, virgo et martyr by Marc-Antoine Charpentier), mixed chorus, large
orchestra, 2000
VOCAL: Grido concentrico (text by A.M.
Giancarli), mezzo-soprano, female speaker, piccolo (+ flute, alto flute), 1997;
Gattomachia (text by Lope de Vega),
soprano, flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, 1999; Coplas de gatos (text by Lope de Vega), soprano, piano, 1999; Days of light (text by Lewis Carroll),
soprano, violin, viola, cello, piano, 2000; UNO
(text by the composer), soprano, string orchestra, 2001
PIANO: De-sequentia,
1999; Ninna-nanna-nonna, 2000
ELECTROACOUSTIC: Rito, violin, viola, cello, live
electronics, 1998; Il monte analogo,
tape, 1999; Pas de deux, tape, 1999
(collaboration with M.C. De Amicis); Effimera
ombra, tape, 2001; Il gioco del
doppio, tape, 2001; Luna in Cancro,
tape, 2001; Grigio perla, tape, 2001;
La porta di cristallo, tape, 2001; Il filo di Arianna, tape, 2001; Immobile, transverse flute, tape, 2001
DISCOGRAPHY (live recordings)
Micra. Freon Ensemble
Frammenti. Flavio E.
Scogna/Gruppo Strumentale Musica d’Oggi
Grido concentrico. Antonella
Cesari, mezzo-soprano; Eva Martelli, speaker; Giuseppe Pelura, flutes
Bassorilievo. Raffaele
Mascolo/Antidogma Ensemble
Rito. I Solisti del
CGAM
Rituale. Trio Artes
Relazioni. Ottavia Fusco,
Eva Martelli, actresses; Antonio Sardi De Letto, piano
De-sequentia. Antonio Sardi De Letto, piano
L’anello fra le dita. Piera Degli Esposti,
speaker; Metamorfosi Ensemble
L’anello fra le dita (ensemble version).
Vittorio Parisi/Dèdalo Ensemble
C’era una volta la Principessa Dispettosa.
Daniele Fracassi, speaker
Days of light. Bruna
Tredicine, soprano; Mario Ancillotti/Ensemble Nuovo Contrappunto
Lunedì dell’Angelo. Anna Clementi, voice; Eva
Martelli, actress
Ridonda. Paola Gassman,
speaker; Francesco La Licata/Ensemble
Notturni alle Conserve
Intimorosamente. Sonia Bergamasco, actress-speaker; I
Solisti della Chigiana
L’ami. Ensemble Ombre Sonore
UNO. Gaia Matteini, soprano; Roberto Fabbriciani/Orchestra
Fidelio
(Last updated on October 13, 2002)
