Gabriella Cecchi is an Italian pianist, music educator and composer. She was born in Ricco del Golfo, La Spezia

La Spezia

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, and began her study of music at the age of 16. She studied in Lucca

Lucca

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, Genoa

Genoa

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 and composition with Franco Donatoni

Franco Donatoni

Franco Donatoni was an Italian composer.Born in Verona, he started studying violin at the age of seven, and frequented the local Music Academy...

 at the Chigiana Music Academy in Siena

Siena

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After completing her studies, Cecchi, worked as a music teacher and composer. She taught music at the Italian State School, and performed in a duo for several years. She also worked as a music critic for the daily newspaper La Nazione and for monthly magazines. Her music has been performed internationally and has been broadcast on Radio RaiTre. She was recipient of the Athena prize in 1988, and is a co-founder of the Italian Composers Foundation.

Works

Cecchi composes solo pieces, chamber music and works for orchestra, often with experimental, multimedia and complex structures. Selected works include:

• Intersezioni for piano (1982)
• Assonanze for harpsichord (1984)
• Imagenes de la Argentina theater music (2005)
• Sères for string quartet (1984)
• Favoletta, instrumental