Monic Gabrielle Cecconi-Botella (b. 30 Sept 1936) is a French

French people

The French are a nation that share a common French culture and speak the French language as a mother tongue. Historically, the French population are descended from peoples of Celtic, Latin and Germanic origin, and are today a mixture of several ethnic groups...

 pianist, music educator and composer. She was born in Courbevoie

Courbevoie

Courbevoie is a commune located very close to the centre of Paris, France. The centre of Courbevoie is situated 2 kilometres from the outer limits of Paris and 8.2 km...

 and studied at the Paris

Paris

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 Conservatoire with Maurice Durufle

Maurice Duruflé

Maurice Duruflé was a French composer, organist, and pedagogue.Duruflé was born in Louviers, Eure. In 1912, he became chorister at the Rouen Cathedral Choir School, where he studied piano and organ with Jules Haelling...

, Jean Rivier

Jean Rivier

Jean Rivier was a French composer of classical music.He composed over two hundred works, including music for orchestra, chamber groups, chorus, piano, and solo instruments....

 and Henri Dutilleux

Henri Dutilleux

Henri Dutilleux is one of the most important French composers of the second half of the 20th century, producing work in the tradition of Maurice Ravel, Claude Debussy, and Albert Roussel, but in a style distinctly his own...

. After completing her studies, she worked as professor of music theory at the Conservatoire of Aubervilliers

Aubervilliers

Aubervilliers is a commune in the northeastern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the center of Paris.-Name:In medieval times the name Aubervilliers was recorded as Alberti Villare, meaning "estate of Adalbert"...

, and in 1983 became a professor of music analysis at the Paris Conservatoire.

In 1966 Cecconi-Botella won a First at the Grand Prix de Rome

Prix de Rome

The Prix de Rome was a scholarship for arts students, principally of painting, sculpture, and architecture. It was created, initially for painters and sculptors, in 1663 in France during the reign of Louis XIV. It was an annual bursary for promising artists having proved their talents by...

. Her opera Noctuaile won a Grand Prix du Disque French Academy. In 2008 she founded the Festival Seasons of the Voice in Gordes

Gordes

Gordes is a commune in the Vaucluse département in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France.The residents are known as Gordiens...

, Provence

Provence

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.

Works

Cecconi-Botella explores multi-media arts in her compositions. Selected works include:

• Bucolique for flute and piano
• Cérémonie for viola and piano
• Noctuaile opera in two parts, libretto by René David
• He Signed Vincent (about the life of Vincent Van Gogh
  Vincent van Gogh
  Vincent Willem van Gogh , and used Brabant dialect in his writing; it is therefore likely that he himself pronounced his name with a Brabant accent: , with a voiced V and palatalized G and gh. In France, where much of his work was produced, it is...
  
  )
• The Woman of the Ogre, opera, book by Pierrette Fleutiaux
• Operaclown, children's opera, libretto by René Pillot
• Pirlipipi, children's opera, libretto by Pierre Gripari
  Pierre Gripari
  Pierre Gripari was a French writer.-Life:Born to a Greek father and a French mother, he was orphaned in 1944 and had to interrupt his studies and support himself with various jobs....
  
  
• Triangle Crystal, children's opera, book by Françoise Arquetout

External links

• Monic Cecconi-Botella website