Lucia Ronchetti

Biografie

Born in Rome in 1963, Lucia Ronchetti studied Composition and Computer Music at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia and Philosophy at the University of Rome. In Paris, she took composition seminars with Gérard Grisey, participated in the annual computer music courses at IRCAM (1997) and obtained her PhD in musicology at the École Pratique des Hautes Études en Sorbonne, under the direction of François Lesure (1999). In 2005 she was Visiting Scholar (Fulbright fellow) at the Columbia University Music Department in New York, at the invitation of Tristan Murail. Other important working experiences include those with Silvano Bussotti (1981), Salvatore Sciarrino (1989), Hans Werner Henze (1993), Folkmar Hein (1998), André Richard (2003). Lucia Ronchetti has frequently received grants and been composer in residence: Yaddo, New York; Berliner Künstlerprogramm des DAAD, Berlin; Staatsoper of Stuttgart; MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH (USA); Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart. For her music theatre projects she collaborated with writers Ermanno Cavazzoni, Ivan Vladislavic, Eugene Ostashevsky,  artists Toti Scialoja, Alberto Sorbelli, Judith Cahen, Dörte Meyer, Adrian Tranquilli, Elisabetta Benassi, Mirella Weingarten and sound designers Marie-Hélène Serra, Folkmar Hein, André Richard, Reinhold Braig, Carl Faia, Olivier Pasquet and Thomas Seelig.
In 2011 her chamber opera Lezioni di Tenebra was co-produced by Konzerthaus Berlin, Contemporanea-Auditorium Parco della Musica Roma, Kunstfestspielen Herrenhausen-Hannover, Salzburg Biennale and a new production is planned at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin for the next season.
In 2012-2015 she will compose a music theatre work in three seasons for the Semperoper of Dresden and a new opera for the Nationaltheater of Mannheim with libretto by Ermanno Cavazzoni.
Stradivarius published the CDs Portrait in 2009 (Neue Vocalsolisten, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Roland Kluttig) and Xylocopa violacea in 2011 (Barbara Maurer, Reinhold Braig, Experimentalstudio Freiburg).
Lezioni di tenebra (Katia Guedes, Daniel Gloger, Vocal Consort Berlin, PMCE) was published in 2011 by Parco della Musica Records.
The CD Drammaturgie (featuring Neue Vocalsolisten and Arditti Quartet) is published by Kairos (2012).

Recent Works: Le Palais du silence (Drammaturgia, Festival d’Automne à Paris 2013), Contrascena (Music Theatre, Semperoper, Dresden 2012), Helicopters and butterflies (Action concert piece, Festival d’Automne à Paris 2012), 3e32 Naufragio di terra (Choral Opera, Società Barattelli, L’Aquila 2012), Neumond (Music Theatre, Nationaltheater Mannheim, 2011), Sei personaggi in cerca di autore (Action concert piece, Orchestra della Rai, Torino 2011), Gutta cavat lapidem (Orchestra, Orchestra Regionale Toscana, Firenze 2011), Lezioni di Tenebra (Music Theatre, Konzerthaus, Berlin, 2010), Narrenschiffe (Choral Opera, Bayerische Staatsoper, München, 2010), Der Sonne entgegen (Music Theatre, MaerzMusik, Berlin, 2009), Prosopopeia (Choral Opera, Internationales Heinrich-Schütz-Fest, Kassel, 2009), Rumori da monumenti (Drammaturgia, Ensemble Modern/Siemens  Arts Foundation, Berlin, 2008), Le voyage d’Urien (Drammaturgia, Commande d’État, Paris, 2008), Hamlet’s Mill (Action concert piece, Musik der Jahrhunderte, Stuttgart, 2007), Albertine (Action concert piece, MärzMusik, Berlin, 2007), Xylocopa Violacea (Action concert piece, Ultraschall Berlin, 2007)