Graziella Concas (born 7 January 1970) is an Italian pianist and composer.

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 Bellini Vincenzo Salvatore Carmelo Francesco Bellini (; 3 November 1801 – 23 September 1835) was a Sicilian opera composer, who was known for his long-flowing melodic lines for which he was named "the Swan of Catania". Many years later, in 1898, Gius ...

’, and composition under Angela Giuffrida. She later studied with Sergio Perticaroli, Agatella Catania,

Aldo Ciccolini Aldo Ciccolini (; 15 August 1925 – 1 February 2015) was an Italian pianist who became a naturalized French citizen in 1971. Biography Aldo Ciccolini was born in Naples. His father, who bore the title of Marquis of Macerata, worked as a typogr ...

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and

Boris Petrushansky Boris Petrushansky (born 3 June 1949 in Moscow) is a Russian-Italian pianist. Petrushansky started an intercontinental concert career in the mid-1970s after graduating from the Moscow Conservatory. Among his teachers were Heinrich Neuhaus and Le ...

. 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 Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (3 April 1895 – 16 March 1968) was an Italian composer, pianist and writer. He was known as one of the foremost guitar composers in the twentieth century with almost one hundred compositions for that instrument. In ...

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Giovanni Sollima Giovanni Sollima (born 24 October 1962 in Palermo, Sicily, Italy) 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 Con ...

, Francesco Pennisi, Alfredo Sangiorgi,

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, Thomas Lawrence Toscano,

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. She won several awards: first prize at the 'Avagliano' Piano Competition; first prize at the ‘

Ennio Porrino Ennio Porrino (20 January 1910 – 25 September 1959) was an Italian composer and teacher. Amongst his compositions were orchestral works, an oratorio and several operas and ballets. His best known work is the symphonic poem ''Sardegna'', a tr ...

’ 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

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’ Piano Competition; second prize at the 'Città di Valentino' Piano Competition; second prize at the 'Città di

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’ 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 ‘

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’ 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,

, Alfio Antico, L'Offerta Musicale Ensemble,

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Orchestra,

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Philharmonic, etc. She has given recitals in Italy and in Europe: Festival Gazzelloni (

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), Festival Internazionale (

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), Wiener Saal (

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), Foerstr Hall (

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), Lyceum Club ( Catania), Amici della Musica ( Cagliari), Amici della Musica ( Palermo), Amici della Musica ( Pistoia), Orestiadi (

Gibellina Gibellina ( Sicilian: ''Jibbiddina'', Arabic: "little mount" - جبل صغير) is a small city and ''comune'' in the Province of Trapani, the mountains of central Sicily, Italy. It was destroyed by the 1968 Belice earthquake. The new city, G ...

), Associazione Musicale Romana (Rome), Associazione Musicale Etnea ( Catania), Filarmonica Laudamo ( Messina),

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( Catania), Teatro Sangiorgi ( Catania),

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( Palermo), Teatro Garibaldi (

Enna Enna ( or ; grc, Ἔννα; la, Henna, less frequently ), known from the Middle Ages until 1926 as Castrogiovanni ( scn, Castrugiuvanni ), is a city and located roughly at the center of Sicily, southern Italy, in the province of Enna, towering ...

), etc.). She has recorded with CIMS, City Record, NEN-CD Classica,

Suvini Zerboni Suvini Zerboni (ESZ) 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 ...

. She is professor of Piano and Chamber Music (two-year course of specialization) at the Catania Musical Institute ‘

’.

Bibliography

*''Enciclopedia Italiana dei Compositori Contemporanei'', edit. by Renzo Cresti, Pagano editore, 1997, IIt., pp. 158(sub voce), . *''Annuario Istituto Bellini: A.A. 2000–2001 – Bicentenario Belliniano, Cinquantesimo anniversario dell'Istituto'', edit. by Erminia Di Mauro, Istituto Musicale Vincenzo Bellini, 2002, 131 pp. IT\ICCU\LO1\0613399. *

Agostino Agazzari Agostino Agazzari (2 December 1578 – 10 April 1640) was an Italian composer and music theorist. Life Agazzari was born in Siena to an aristocratic family. After working in Rome, as a teacher at the Roman College, he returned to Siena in 1607, b ...

, ''Del sonare sopra 'l Basso con tutti li stromenti...'', edit. by Graziella Concas, Palermo, NEN, 2003, IT\ICCU\LO1\0834426. *

Fedele Fenaroli Fedele Fenaroli (25 April 1730, in Lanciano – 1 January 1818, in Naples) was an Italian composer and teacher. Fenaroli entered the Conservatorio di Santa Maria di Loreto, one of the Music conservatories of Naples, becoming a pupil of Francesc ...

, ''Regole musicali per i principianti di cembalo'', edit. by Graziella Concas, Palermo, NEN, 2004, IT\ICCU\LO1\0834398.

External links

*http://pianosociety.com/cms/index.php?section=842

References

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