Lucia Ronchetti

Lucia Ronchetti (born February 3, 1963) is a contemporary Italian composer.

Lucia Ronchetti - Photo by Stefano Corso

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 (1981–85) and with Salvatore Sciarrino at the Corsi Internazionali of Città di Castello (1988–1989). 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 (D.E.A.) 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 (1993–1996) and took part in the annual computer music courses at IRCAM (1997) under the supervision of Tristan Murail. In 2005 she was a Visiting Scholar (Fulbright Fellow) at the Music Department of Columbia University (New York), having been invited by Tristan Murail.[1]

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
  • 2008 Music Theatre Now Prize (International Theatre Institute)
  • 2006 Composer-in-residence, Yaddo, New York
  • 2005-06 Composer in residence, Berliner Künstlerprogramm, D.A.A.D.
  • 2005 Visiting Scholar (Fulbright Fellow), Columbia University, New York
  • 2003-04 Composer-in-residence, Staatsoper Stuttgart (ForumNeues Musiktheater)
  • 2003 Composer-in-residence, The MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, (USA)
  • 2000-01 Composer-in-residence, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart
  • 2000 Composition Prize, Federazione Cemat, Rome
  • 1997 Fellowship, Fondation des Treilles, Paris
  • 1997 Dimitri Mitropoulos International Composition Prize, Athens
  • 1997 Erato-Farnesina Fellowship, Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
  • 1995 “Progetto Dionysos” Composition Prize, Italian Ministry of Culture
  • 1993 Composer-in-residence, Fondation Nadia Boulanger, Paris
  • 1988-92 Doctoral Studies Fellowship, Italian Ministry of Universities

Works

Starting in 1998, she realized various productions at the Berlin Institute of Technology (TUB) 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 (Festival Ultrashall 2007) and is called “Xylocopa Violacea” (CD Stradivarius 2010).[2]

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.[3] 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;[4][5] Hombre de mucha gravedad, for four voices and string quartet, 2002; Anatra al sal, Comedia harmonica for six voices, 2000 (CD Kairos 2010).

She has realized numerous music theatre projects inspired by the social scene,[6] exploring, in the dramaturgy, the concept of otherness (BendelSchlemihl, Strasse-opern, 2000, text by Ivan Vladislavic); outsider groups and dysptopia (Narrenschiffe, in-transit action, 2010, text after Sebastian Brant);[7] limen/border (Der Sonne entgegen, chamber opera, 2009, text by Steffi Hansel);[8] transitory mental illness (Le voyage d’Urien, drammaturgia, text after Gide and 19th century psychiatric reportages, 2008); sub-urbanity (Rumori da monumenti, drammaturgia, text by Ivan Vladislavic, 2007); and Sebenza e-mine, Radio Play, in collaboration with Philip Miller, 2010).

For her music theatre projects she has collaborated with writers Ermanno Cavazzoni, Ivan Vladislavic, Eugene Ostashevsky; artists 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
  • Music theatre
    • Lezioni di tenebra (2010) for voices and ensemble, after the Giasone by Francesco Cavalli
    • Narrenschiffe (2009–2010) In-transit actions after Sebastian Brant
    • Der Sonne entgegen (2007–2009) for 14 voices, ensemble and live (text by S. Hensel)
    • Last Desire (2004) for treble voice, countertenor, bass, viola and live (text from O.Wilde)
    • L’ape apatica (2001) for treble voices, ensemble and live (text by Toti Scialoja)
    • Le tentazioni di Girolamo (1995) for actor, soloists and live electronics (text by E.Cavazzoni)
    • Musikfässli (1994) for actor, soloists and live electronics after Adolf Wölfli
  • Theatrical concert works
    • Prosopopeia (2009) for vocal ensemble and instrumental ensemble[9]
    • Rumori da monumenti (2008) for recorded voice and ensemble (text by I. Vladislavic)[10]
    • Le Voyage d’Urien (2008) for 5 voices and ensemble
    • Xylocopa Violacea (2007) for solo viola and live electronics
    • Albertine (2007) for female voice and whispering public (text from M.Proust)
    • Hamlet’s Mill (2007) for soprano, bass, viola and cello (text by E. Ostashevsky )
    • Pinocchio, una storia parallela (2005) for four male voices (text from G.Manganelli)
    • Hombre de mucha gravedad (2002) for vocal quartet and string quartet
    • BendelSchlemihl (2000) for recorded voices, accordion and live (text by I. Vladislavic)
    • Anatra al sal (1999) Comedia harmonica for six voices (text by E. Cavazzoni)
  • Orchestral works
    • Arborescence (2004)
    • Déclive-Étude (2002)
    • Quaderno gotico (1999)
    • Schiffbruch mit Zuschauer (1995, rev. 1999)
    • Die Sorge getht über den Fluss (1995) for flute, clarinet and orchestra
  • Chamber music works
    • Rosso pompeiano (2010) Scherzo for ensemble
    • Studio detto dei venti (2010) A medley attempt for 6 voices
    • Like winter moving backwards (2009) A study for one piano, four hands
    • Le nuove musiche di Giulio Caccini detto Romano, 1601, Lesson for solo voice (2008)
    • Coins and crosses (2007) A Yessong, for vocal ensemble
    • In shape of Anxieties (2005) In Nomine Studio for ensemble
    • The Glazed Roof (2005) for ensemble
    • Opus 100 (2005) Kriptomnesie da Schubert, for violino, cello and piano
    • Il sonno di Atys (2004) for viola and live electronics
    • Geographisches Heft (2001) Studio da Adolf Wölfli, for ensemble
  • Radio Plays
    • Sebenza e-mine (2010) in collaboration with Philip Miller
    • Il Castello d’Atlante (2007)
    • Rivelazione (1998) in collaboration with Ermanno Cavazzoni
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References
  1. Rainer Pöllmann, About Lucia Ronchetti, Rai Trade Catalogue
  2. Peter Uehling, CDs mit neuer Musik von Lucia Ronchetti und Jay Schwartz, Archiv 2009 -09. Juli, Feuilleton, Berliner Zeitung
  3. Sandro Cappelletto, Bizarre Poetik Die Musik Lucia Ronchettis Archived 2010-08-19 at the Wayback Machine
  4. Uwe Schweikert, Warten auf Salomé, Opern Welt, Februar 2005
  5. Annette Eckerle, Eine etwas andere Baustelle, Neue Zeitschrift für Musik, Ausgabe 6, November 2004
  6. L.Ronchetti_Über die Linie-2010_Programbooklet MaerzMusik 2010.pdf
  7. Munchener Opernfestspiele 2010, Narrenschiffe, Materialen 1-2-3, Siebner 2010
  8. Stefano Nardelli, Declinazione della frontiera Der Sonne entgegen (Verso il sole) di Lucia Ronchetti, Giornale della Musica 14. Mai 2007
  9. Guido Barbieri, Zeremonielle Theatralität, Lucia Ronchettis Vokalwerk „Prosopopeia“ Archived 2010-08-19 at the Wayback Machine
  10. "Lucia Ronchetti" Archived 2010-10-21 at the Wayback Machine, Heike Hoffmann/June 2008, Into, a project by EnsembleModern and Siemens Arts Program, in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut.
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