Lucia Ronchetti


Lucia Ronchetti is a contemporary Italian composer.

Biography

Lucia Ronchetti studied composition and computer music at the Conservatory of Santa Cecilia in Rome and took part in composition seminars with Sylvano Bussotti at the Scuola di Musica of Fiesole and with Salvatore Sciarrino at the Corsi Internazionali of Città di Castello. 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 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 and took part in the annual computer music courses at IRCAM under the supervision of Tristan Murail. In 2005 she was a Visiting Scholar at the Music Department of Columbia University, having been invited by Tristan Murail.
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.

Awards and recognition

Starting in 1998, she realized various productions at the Berlin Institute of Technology 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 and is called “Xylocopa Violacea”.
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 music. 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, 2003; Hombre de mucha gravedad, for four voices and string quartet, 2002; Anatra al sal, Comedia harmonica for six voices, 2000.
She has realized numerous music theatre projects inspired by the social scene, exploring, in the dramaturgy, the concept of otherness ; outsider groups and dysptopia ; limen/border ; transitory mental illness ; sub-urbanity.
For her music theatre projects she has collaborated with writers :it:Ermanno Cavazzoni|Ermanno Cavazzoni, Ivan Vladislavic, Eugene Ostashevsky; artists :it:Toti Scialoja|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