Chiara Benati
Chiara Benati | |
|---|---|
| Born | 18 July 1956 Bologna, Italy |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Alma mater | Bologna Conservatory |
| Occupation | Composer |
Chiara Benati (born 18 July 1956) is an Italian composer. She was born in Bologna, Italy, and studied piano, conducting and composition with Paolo Renosto and Cesare Augusto at the Bologna Conservatory.[1][2]
After completing her education, Benati took a position teaching harmony and counterpoint at the G.B. Martini Conservatory of Bologna. In 1992, she was chosen as the representative of Italian contemporary music at the Arts Institute of Chicago. Her music has been performed and broadcast internationally.[3]
Works
Selected works include:
- Capriccio for guitar
- Come Erba Sotto la Terra, song cycle
- Idylls, lyrics by Andrea Iezzi for voice and guitar
- Voci for flute, violin and piano (1989)
- Variazioni su una sequenza di Maderna for harp (1991)
- Chthon for flute and percussion (1991)
- Ove s'asconde un rivo for flute (1991)
- Di lievi rintocchi for guitar and piano (1988)
- Trio (in memoria di Luigi Nono) for violin, cello and piano (1991)
- Un Agnus Dei sul cantusfirmus di Frye for madrigal choir and orchestra
- Canto per Irma for Soprano voice and string orchestra[3]
Her music has been recorded and issued on CD, including:
- Chiara BenatiPAN 3063
References
- ^ Sadie, Julie Anne; Samuel, Rhian (1994). The Norton/Grove dictionary of women composers.
- ^ International directory of contemporary music: Composers. Contemporary Music International Information Service. 2000.
- ^ a b "Chiara Benati". Archived from the original on 17 March 2012. Retrieved 25 January 2011.
Categories:
- 1956 births
- Living people
- 20th-century classical composers
- Italian music educators
- Women classical composers
- Italian classical composers
- Musicians from Bologna
- School of the Art Institute of Chicago alumni
- 20th-century Italian composers
- Conservatorio Giovanni Battista Martini alumni
- Women music educators
- 20th-century women composers