Life

Sonia Bo was born in Lecco

Lecco

Lecco is a town of c. 47,760 inhabitants in Lombardy, northern Italy, north of Milan, the capital of the province of Lecco. It lies at the end of the south-eastern branch of Lake Como...

, Italy

Italy

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, and studied with Renato Dionisi and Azio Corghi

Azio Corghi

Azio Corghi is an Italian opera composer, also a teacher and musicologist. He was born at Cirié, in the Province of Turin, studied at the Turin and Milan conservatories and was a pupil of Bruno Bettinelli...

 at the Conservatorio di Milano, where she graduated in 1985. In 1988 she continued her studies 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 Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome

Rome

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.

After completing her studies, she taught music at universities in Ferrara

Ferrara

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, Verona

Verona

Verona ; German Bern, Dietrichsbern or Welschbern) is a city in the Veneto, northern Italy, with approx. 265,000 inhabitants and one of the seven chef-lieus of the region. It is the second largest city municipality in the region and the third of North-Eastern Italy. The metropolitan area of Verona...

, Pesaro

Pesaro

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 and Piacenza

Piacenza

Piacenza is a city and comune in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern Italy. It is the capital of the province of Piacenza...

. In 1997 she took a position teaching composition at the Conservatorio di Milano. She married composer Giuseppe Colardo.

Honors and awards

• First prize, Guido d’Arezzo Composers Competition (1985)
• First prize, composition competition of the European Cultural Foundation (1985)
• First prize, composition competition G. Savagnone in Rome (1986)
• First Prize, the international composition competition Alpe Adria Giovani in Trieste (1988)
• Gold plate, the international Premio Città di Trieste (1995)
• Acknowledgment, Okanagan Music Festival for Composers (1983)
• Friuli Prize (1985)
• Ennio Porrino Prize (1985)
• Franco Evangelisti Prize (1987)
• Valentino Bucchi Prize (1989)

Works

Bo composes orchestral, chamber, choral, vocal, piano, organ, and electroacoustic works. Selected compositions include:

• Frammenti da Jacopone
• Da una lettura di Husserl
• Quartetto
• Due Bagatelle
• Synopsis
• Concerto for chamber orchestra

External links

• List of works