Gian Paolo Chiti is an Italian

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 composer

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 and pianist

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After beginning his studies in piano

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, violin

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 and composition

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 at the age of four, he made a series of appearances as a child prodigy

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 before entering the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia

Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia

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 in Rome

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, Italy's most important music school, at the age of ten. His principal teachers include Carlo Zecchi

Carlo Zecchi

Carlo Zecchi was an Italian pianist, music teacher and conductor.Zecchi was born in Rome. He led pianistic courses in Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Rome, and in Salzburg. Highly acclaimed performer of Domenico Scarlatti, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Claude Debussy works, and of Romantic...

, Arturo Bonucci and Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli

Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli

Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli was a virtuoso Italian classical pianist. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest pianists of the 20th century, as well as one of the most important Italian pianists along with Ferruccio Busoni and Maurizio Pollini.-Biography:Born in Brescia, Italy, he began...

 (private and masterclass studies). Chiti was a prizewinner in the Treviso and Busoni

Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition

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 competitions.

Gian Paolo Chiti began a duel career as a concert pianist, often in the company of his wife, the noted mezzo soprano and president and founder of the Adkins-Chiti Donne in Musica foundation Patricia Adkins Chiti and as a composer. He has written works for almost every conceivable ensemble as well as for electronic media. His catalogue also includes a large number of film and television scores. His compositions have been programmed both in Italy and abroad at such festivals as the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino

Maggio Musicale Fiorentino

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 in Florence, Venice Biennale

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, Edinburgh Festival

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, Lutoslawski Festival, Cantiere Internazionale d'Arte

Cantiere Internazionale d'Arte

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 of Montepulciano, Nuova Consonanza, Incontri Musicali Romani, Chopin Festival in Poland, Sacred Music Festival in Chartres, France, Teatro Nacional di Caraccas in Venezuela and the Public Season at the Moscow Conservatory

Moscow Conservatory

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Chiti has held the post of Head of the Composition department of the Conservatorio at the Santa Cecilia in Rome since 1984. More than a generation of important young Italian musicians have been trained through his teaching. In addition, he is also a member of the Italian National committee for Dance as well as on the faculty of several universities.

Chronological works list

This list includes all serious concert music composed by Gian Paolo Chiti, including works for young musicians. It does not include transcriptions and arrangements, nor does it include film and television scores and popular works.

• Zoological Garden (solo piano - young performers) (1951)
• O Sacrum Convivium (SATB chorus) (1958)
• Sestetto a fiato n° 1 (flute, clarinet, 2 bassoons, trumpet, trombone) (1954)
• Sestetto a fiato n° 2 (flute, 2 bassoons, 2 horns, trumpet in C) (1958)
• Quartetto per Archi (string quartet) (1959)
• Cinque preludi per pianoforte (1961)
• Suite per pianoforte n° 2 (1961)
• Tre mottetti per coro misto (SATB chorus) (1961)
• Per orchestra (for orchestra) (1962)
• Tre pezzi per pianoforte (1962)
• Concerto per orchestra d’archi (for string orchestra) (1963)
• Concerto per dieci strumenti/for ten instruments) (flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, vibraphone, timpani, harp, violin, viola, violoncello) (1964)
• Due mottetti a cappella (SATB chorus) (1964)
• Inscription (solo flute) (1966)
• Nachtmusik (for strings) (1966)
• Serenade per cinque strumenti (flute, bass clarinet, viola, violoncello, piano) (1966)
• Divertimento n° 2 (flute, violin, viola, violoncello) (1967)
• Especially when the October wind (medium voice, piano) (1967)
• Holy Sonnet of John Donne (medium voice, piano) (1967)
• Pilatus (contralto, tenor, organ) (1968)
• Ricercare ’70 (2 oboes, bassoon, 2 horns, strings)(1968)
• We lying by the Sea Sand (high voice, piano) (1968)
• Y Ara Dirè (two guitars) (1969)
• Conversation with myself (solo violin) (1969)
• Matrona Quaedam (chamber opera) (1969)
• Violin concerto (solo violin, orchestra) (1969)
• In Dateless Night (string quartet) (1970/1)
• Into my own (solo organ) (1971)
• Lebenslauf (clarinet, violin, viola, violoncello, piano) (1971)
• Sie erlischt (violin, piano) (1971)
• Yerma (ballet) (1971)
• A Dylan Thomas (ballet) (1972)
• Andante (flute, bassoon, pianoforte) (1968)
• Divertimento (flute, violin, harpsichord) (1972)
• Elegia (flute, piano) (1972)
• Movements per pianoforte (1972)
• Breakers (four harps) (1973)
• El Icaro (solo harpsichord) (1973)
• Ottetto per 2 soprani, 2 contralti, 2 tenori, 2 bassi (for SATB/SATB) (1973)
• Rencontres (flute, strings) (1973)
• Spleen (treble and bass recorders, violoncello, piano) (1973)
• Dal profondo (clarinet, bassoon, piano) (1974)
• Prelude d’automne (flute, viola, harp) (1975)
• Replay (2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 bassoons, 2 horns) (1975)
• Shahed-B (oboe, harpsichord) (1975)
• Games Around the Six with Eleven (string orchestra) (1976)
• Persefone (solo flute, flute in G and flute in C) (1977)
• Piccola raccolta per organo (1978)
• Rondeau (solo flute) (1978)
• Anthem (solo violoncello) (1979)
• In Mind (solo guitar) (1979)
• Flutar (flute, harp) (1979)
• Pastorale (flute, harp) (1979)
• Preludio romantico (piano - young performers) (1979)
• Piccola suite per pianoforte (piano - young performers) (1980)
• Serenata (flute, oboe, bassoon) (1980)
• Around (solo guitar) (1981)
• Melodia (Bb clarinet, piano) (1981)
• Adieu adieu (wind quintet: flute, oboe, clarinet, and bassoon, horn) (1982)
• Rag prelude per pianoforte (1982)
• Retour (solo violin, viola and violoncello, string orchestra) (1982)
• Trivium (mezzo-soprano, string orchestra) (1983)
• Arion (solo guitar) (1983)
• In the Merry Month of May (brass quintet: 2 trumpets, flugelhorn, horn, trombone, tuba) (1983)
• Kammerstück (clarinet, violoncello, trombone, piano) (1983)
• Konzertstuck (orchestra) (1984)
• Per lontane vie per pianoforte (1985)
• Ground (piano four hands) (1985)
• Ipodyon (solo harp) (1985)
• Triplum (flute, violin, harpsichord) (1985)
• Wintermusik (flute, clarinet, violon, violoncello, piano) (1985)
• In Sogno (two flutes: doubling piccolo, flute, alto flute, bass flute and piano) (1986)
• Recordari (trumpet in C, organ) (1986)
• Tropi per chartres (alto saxophone, string quartet) (1996)
• Fogli d’album (Albumblatter) (solo guitar) (1987)
• Abendstucke per pianoforte (1989)
• Action (flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, 2 violins, viola, violocello) (1990)
• European suite (solo guitar) (1990)
• Kinamama (two flutes, piano) (1990)
• Octopus Line (flute, oboe, clarinet, 2 bassoons, horn, 2 trumpets, 2 trombones) (1990)
• Salve regina (mezzo-soprano, flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, strings) (1991)
• European Lieder Book (high voice, piano) (1992)
• Intermezzo (violin, viola, violoncello) (1992)
• Arion suite per pianoforte (1993)
• Cahier des Reves (violin, violoncello, piano) (1993)
• Tre liriche su poesie di J. Basile (soprano, piano) (1993)
• Triple (flute, clarinet, bassoon) (1993)
• Concertino per sax tenore e otto violoncelli (tenor saxophone, cello octet) (1994)
• Sur les bois oubliés (solo viola) (1995)
• Rime (medium voice, viola, piano) (1998)
• Laudarium in onore della beata vergine Maria (SATB chorus, brass ensemble) (2000)
• Plexus (two bass flutes) (2001)
• Envers (orchestra) (2002)
• Extrême per pianoforte (2002)
• Seagulls per pianoforte (2002)
• En ecoutant la nuit (string quartet) (2003)
• L’età dell’ombra (clarinet, viola, piano) (2003)
• Burlesque (solo tenor saxophone) (2005)
• Capriccio (Bb clarinet) (2005)
• Counterpoint in F (Bb clarinet, tenor saxophone) (2005)
• Prelude (alto saxophone, piano) (2005)
• Two liturgical pieces (organ) (2005)
• Viorgan for viola and organ (2007)

External links

• The Composer's Personal Website