Graziella Concas
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Graziella Concas is an Italian pianist and composer.
’, and composition under Angela Giuffrida. She later studied with Sergio Perticaroli, Agatella Catania, Aldo Ciccolini
, Vera Gornostayeva
and Boris Petrushansky
.
She is noted especially for her recordings of 20th century
works and world premiere by composers such as Arnold Schoenberg
, Olivier Messiaen
, Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
, Aldo Clementi
, Giovanni Sollima
, Francesco Pennisi, Alfredo Sangiorgi, Alexis Koustoulidis, Thomas Lawrence Toscano, Marco Betta
, Roberto Carnevale
, Alessandro Solbiati, Giovanni Ferrauto, Marina Leonardi
, Sergio Pallante.
She won several awards: first prize at the ‘Avagliano’ Piano Competition; first prize at the ‘Ennio Porrino’ Piano Competition in Cagliari
; first prize at the ‘A.M.A. Calabria’ Piano Competition; first prize at the ‘Castello Normanno’ Piano Competition; first prize at the ‘Città di Barletta
’ Piano Competition; second prize at the ‘Città di Valentino’ Piano Competition; second prize at the ‘Città di Catanzaro’ international Piano Competition, third prize at the ‘Kandinskij’ International Competition, finalist at the ‘Concorso Pianistico Internazionale "Arcangelo Speranza" (Taranto)’, at the ‘Neglia’ international Piano Competition and at the ‘Muzio Clementi
’ Piano Competition (Firenze).
She frequently appears as a member of the jury at important piano and chamber music competitions.
She has collaborated with well known musicians and orchestras: Augusto Vismara, Franco Petracchi
, Ciro Scarponi, Roberto Carnevale
, Alfio Antico, L’Offerta Musicale Ensemble, West Chester University Orchestra, Ploesti Philharmonic, etc. She has given recitals in Italy and in Europe: Festival Gazzelloni (Roccasecca), Festival Internazionale (Imola
), Wiener Saal (Salzburg
), Foerstr Hall (Prague
), Lyceum Club (Catania
), Amici della Musica (Cagliari
), Amici della Musica (Palermo
), Amici della Musica (Pistoia
), Orestiadi (Gibellina
), Associazione Musicale Romana (Rome), Associazione Musicale Etnea (Catania
), Filarmonica Laudamo (Messina), Teatro Massimo Bellini
(Catania
), Teatro Sangiorgi (Catania
), Teatro Massimo
(Palermo
), Teatro Garibaldi (Enna), etc.).
She has recorded with CIMS, City Record, NEN-CD Classica, Suvini Zerboni
.
She is professor of Piano and Chamber Music (two-year course of specialization) at the Catania Musical Institute ‘Vincenzo Bellini
’.
Biography and career
She started studying piano at the age of five. Later she studied piano under Franca Zinghinì-Spinnicchia at the Catania Musical Institute ‘Vincenzo BelliniVincenzo Bellini
Vincenzo Salvatore Carmelo Francesco Bellini was an Italian opera composer. His greatest works are I Capuleti ed i Montecchi , La sonnambula , Norma , Beatrice di Tenda , and I puritani...
’, and composition under Angela Giuffrida. She later studied with Sergio Perticaroli, Agatella Catania, Aldo Ciccolini
Aldo Ciccolini
Aldo Ciccolini , is an Italian-French pianist.-Biography:Aldo Ciccolini was born in Naples. His father, who bore the title of Marquis of Macerara, worked as a typographer. He took his first lessons with Maria Vigliarolo d'Ovidio, and entered Naples Conservatory in 1934 at the age of 9, by special...
, Vera Gornostayeva
Vera Gornostayeva
Vera Gornostayeva is a Russian pianist and pedagogue.Emeritus Artist of the Russian Federation, Gornostaeva is a graduate of the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, where her teacher was the legendary Heinrich Neuhaus....
and Boris Petrushansky
Boris Petrushansky
Boris Petrushansky is a Russian pianist, naturalized Italian citizen.Petrushansky started an intense intercontinental concert career at the mid-70s. After the USSR's collapse he settled in Italy.-References:...
.
She is noted especially for her recordings of 20th century
20th century classical music
20th century classical music was without a dominant style and highly diverse.-Introduction:At the turn of the century, music was characteristically late Romantic in style. Composers such as Gustav Mahler and Jean Sibelius were pushing the bounds of Post-Romantic Symphonic writing...
works and world premiere by composers such as Arnold Schoenberg
Arnold Schoenberg
Arnold Schoenberg was an Austrian composer, associated with the expressionist movement in German poetry and art, and leader of the Second Viennese School...
, Olivier Messiaen
Olivier Messiaen
Olivier Messiaen was a French composer, organist and ornithologist, one of the major composers of the 20th century. His music is rhythmically complex ; harmonically and melodically it is based on modes of limited transposition, which he abstracted from his early compositions and improvisations...
, Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco was an Italian composer. He was known as one of the foremost guitar composers in the twentieth century with almost one hundred compositions for that instrument. In 1939 he migrated to the United States and became a film composer for some 200 Hollywood movies for the next...
, Aldo Clementi
Aldo Clementi
-Life:Aldo Clementi was born in Catania, Italy. He studied the piano, graduating in 1946. His studies in composition began in 1941, and his teachers included Alfredo Sangiorgi and Goffredo Petrassi. After receiving his diploma in 1954, he attended the Darmstadt summer courses from 1955 to 1962...
, Giovanni Sollima
Giovanni Sollima
Giovanni Sollima is an Italian composer and cellist. He was born into a family of musicians and studied cello with Giovanni Perriera and composition with his father, Eliodoro Sollima, at the Conservatorio di Palermo, where he graduated with highest honors...
, Francesco Pennisi, Alfredo Sangiorgi, Alexis Koustoulidis, Thomas Lawrence Toscano, Marco Betta
Marco Betta
Marco Betta is an Italian music composer.-Biography:Marco Betta, author of opera, film score, orchestral and chamber music, has studied composition at the Conservatorio di Palermo with Eliodoro Sollima...
, Roberto Carnevale
Roberto Carnevale
Roberto Carnevale is an Italian composer, pianist and conductor.- Biography and career :Born in Catania, he started studying piano at the age of seven. He took a degree in Arts at the University of Catania and he attended the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena...
, Alessandro Solbiati, Giovanni Ferrauto, Marina Leonardi
Marina Leonardi
Marina Leonardi is an Italian pianist and composer. Leonardi was born in Catania, Italy and studied piano with Oria Dell’Angelo, and composition with Alexander Mullenbach, Giovanni Ferrauto, Alessandro Solbiati and Eliodoro Sollima. After completing her studies, Leonardi took a position as...
, Sergio Pallante.
She won several awards: first prize at the ‘Avagliano’ Piano Competition; first prize at the ‘Ennio Porrino’ Piano Competition in Cagliari
Cagliari
Cagliari is the capital of the island of Sardinia, a region of Italy. Cagliari's Sardinian name Casteddu literally means castle. It has about 156,000 inhabitants, or about 480,000 including the outlying townships : Elmas, Assemini, Capoterra, Selargius, Sestu, Monserrato, Quartucciu, Quartu...
; first prize at the ‘A.M.A. Calabria’ Piano Competition; first prize at the ‘Castello Normanno’ Piano Competition; first prize at the ‘Città di Barletta
Barletta
Barletta is a city and comune located in the north of Apulia in south eastern Italy. Its current population is 94,140.It is famous for the Colossus of Barletta, a bronze statue, representing a Roman Emperor...
’ Piano Competition; second prize at the ‘Città di Valentino’ Piano Competition; second prize at the ‘Città di Catanzaro’ international Piano Competition, third prize at the ‘Kandinskij’ International Competition, finalist at the ‘Concorso Pianistico Internazionale "Arcangelo Speranza" (Taranto)’, at the ‘Neglia’ international Piano Competition and at the ‘Muzio Clementi
Muzio Clementi
Muzio Clementi was a celebrated composer, pianist, pedagogue, conductor, music publisher, editor, and piano manufacturer. Born in Italy, he spent most of his life in England. He is best known for his piano sonatas, and his collection of piano studies, Gradus ad Parnassum...
’ Piano Competition (Firenze).
She frequently appears as a member of the jury at important piano and chamber music competitions.
She has collaborated with well known musicians and orchestras: Augusto Vismara, Franco Petracchi
Franco Petracchi
Franco Petracchi is a famous Italian double bass player soloist and teacher. He is a native of Pistoia and the author of Simplified Higher Technique. In his method, he introduces some conventions to playing in the thumb-position. He uses names chromatic, semi-chromatic and diatonic for different...
, Ciro Scarponi, Roberto Carnevale
Roberto Carnevale
Roberto Carnevale is an Italian composer, pianist and conductor.- Biography and career :Born in Catania, he started studying piano at the age of seven. He took a degree in Arts at the University of Catania and he attended the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena...
, Alfio Antico, L’Offerta Musicale Ensemble, West Chester University Orchestra, Ploesti Philharmonic, etc. She has given recitals in Italy and in Europe: Festival Gazzelloni (Roccasecca), Festival Internazionale (Imola
Imola
thumb|250px|The Cathedral of Imola.Imola is a town and comune in the province of Bologna, located on the Santerno river, in the Emilia-Romagna region of north-central Italy...
), Wiener Saal (Salzburg
Salzburg
-Population development:In 1935, the population significantly increased when Salzburg absorbed adjacent municipalities. After World War II, numerous refugees found a new home in the city. New residential space was created for American soldiers of the postwar Occupation, and could be used for...
), Foerstr Hall (Prague
Prague
Prague is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. Situated in the north-west of the country on the Vltava river, the city is home to about 1.3 million people, while its metropolitan area is estimated to have a population of over 2.3 million...
), Lyceum Club (Catania
Catania
Catania is an Italian city on the east coast of Sicily facing the Ionian Sea, between Messina and Syracuse. It is the capital of the homonymous province, and with 298,957 inhabitants it is the second-largest city in Sicily and the tenth in Italy.Catania is known to have a seismic history and...
), Amici della Musica (Cagliari
Cagliari
Cagliari is the capital of the island of Sardinia, a region of Italy. Cagliari's Sardinian name Casteddu literally means castle. It has about 156,000 inhabitants, or about 480,000 including the outlying townships : Elmas, Assemini, Capoterra, Selargius, Sestu, Monserrato, Quartucciu, Quartu...
), Amici della Musica (Palermo
Palermo
Palermo is a city in Southern Italy, the capital of both the autonomous region of Sicily and the Province of Palermo. The city is noted for its history, culture, architecture and gastronomy, playing an important role throughout much of its existence; it is over 2,700 years old...
), Amici della Musica (Pistoia
Pistoia
Pistoia is a city and comune in the Tuscany region of Italy, the capital of a province of the same name, located about 30 km west and north of Florence and is crossed by the Ombrone Pistoiese, a tributary of the River Arno.-History:...
), Orestiadi (Gibellina
Gibellina
Gibellina is a small city and comune in the mountains of central Sicily, Italy in the Province of Trapani. It was destroyed by the 1968 earthquake....
), Associazione Musicale Romana (Rome), Associazione Musicale Etnea (Catania
Catania
Catania is an Italian city on the east coast of Sicily facing the Ionian Sea, between Messina and Syracuse. It is the capital of the homonymous province, and with 298,957 inhabitants it is the second-largest city in Sicily and the tenth in Italy.Catania is known to have a seismic history and...
), Filarmonica Laudamo (Messina), Teatro Massimo Bellini
Teatro Massimo Bellini
The Teatro Massimo Bellini is an opera house in Catania, Sicily, southern Italy. Named after the local-born composer Vincenzo Bellini, it was inaugurated on 31 May 1890 with a performance of the composer's masterwork, Norma...
(Catania
Catania
Catania is an Italian city on the east coast of Sicily facing the Ionian Sea, between Messina and Syracuse. It is the capital of the homonymous province, and with 298,957 inhabitants it is the second-largest city in Sicily and the tenth in Italy.Catania is known to have a seismic history and...
), Teatro Sangiorgi (Catania
Catania
Catania is an Italian city on the east coast of Sicily facing the Ionian Sea, between Messina and Syracuse. It is the capital of the homonymous province, and with 298,957 inhabitants it is the second-largest city in Sicily and the tenth in Italy.Catania is known to have a seismic history and...
), Teatro Massimo
Teatro Massimo
The Teatro Massimo Vittorio Emanuele is an opera house and opera company located on the Piazza Verdi in Palermo, Sicily. It was dedicated to King Victor Emanuel II....
(Palermo
Palermo
Palermo is a city in Southern Italy, the capital of both the autonomous region of Sicily and the Province of Palermo. The city is noted for its history, culture, architecture and gastronomy, playing an important role throughout much of its existence; it is over 2,700 years old...
), Teatro Garibaldi (Enna), etc.).
She has recorded with CIMS, City Record, NEN-CD Classica, Suvini Zerboni
Suvini Zerboni
Suvini Zerboni Italian music publishing house founded in 1907 in Milan, taking its name from the theater society of the same name. The ESZ catalogue included, besides operetta favourites, the best of Italian contemporary music, such composers as Goffredo Petrassi, Luigi Dallapiccola, Luciano...
.
She is professor of Piano and Chamber Music (two-year course of specialization) at the Catania Musical Institute ‘Vincenzo Bellini
Vincenzo Bellini
Vincenzo Salvatore Carmelo Francesco Bellini was an Italian opera composer. His greatest works are I Capuleti ed i Montecchi , La sonnambula , Norma , Beatrice di Tenda , and I puritani...
’.