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 ‘

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’, and composition under

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. 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, whose family bore the title of Marquis in the city of Macera ...

Vera Gornostayeva Vera Gornostayeva (October 1, 1929 – January 19, 2015) was a Russian pianist and pedagogue. An Emeritus Artist of the Russian Federation at the time of her death, Gornostayeva was a graduate of the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, where her t ...

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 Lev ...

. She is noted especially for her recordings of

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works and world premiere by composers such as

Arnold Schoenberg Arnold Schoenberg or Schönberg (13 September 187413 July 1951) was an Austrian and American composer, music theorist, teacher and writer. He was among the first Modernism (music), modernists who transformed the practice of harmony in 20th-centu ...

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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 ...

Aldo Clementi Aldo Clementi (25 May 1925 – 3 March 2011) was an Italian classical composer. Life Aldo Clementi was born in Catania, Italy. He studied the piano, graduating in 1946 at the Conservatorio Santa Cecilia in Rome. His studies in composition began i ...

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 Conse ...

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, 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 ‘

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’ Piano Competition in

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; 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

Catanzaro Catanzaro (; or ; ), also known as the "City of the two Seas" (), is an Italian city of 86,183 inhabitants (2020), the capital of the Calabria region and of its province and the second most populated comune of the region, behind Reggio Calabr ...

’ 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 Filippo Vincenzo Francesco Saverio Clementi (23 January 1752 – 10 March 1832) was an Italian-British composer, virtuoso pianist, pedagogue, conductor (music), conductor, music publisher, editor, and piano manufacturer, who was mostly ac ...

’ 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 (born September, 1937) is an Italian double bass soloist and teacher. He is a native of Pistoia, Tuscany, and the author of ''Simplified Higher Technique''. In his method, he introduces some conventions to playing in the thumb-pos ...

, 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 (

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), Amici della Musica (

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), Amici della Musica (

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), Orestiadi (

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), Associazione Musicale Romana (Rome), Associazione Musicale Etnea (

), Filarmonica Laudamo (

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Teatro Massimo Bellini The Teatro Massimo Bellini is an opera house located on Piazza Vincenzo Bellini 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 mas ...

(

), Teatro Sangiorgi (

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(

), Teatro Garibaldi (

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), 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 compose ...

. 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,

, NEN, 2003, IT\ICCU\LO1\0834426. *

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

, ''Regole musicali per i principianti di cembalo'', edit. by Graziella Concas,

, NEN, 2004, IT\ICCU\LO1\0834398.

External links

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

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Concas, Graziella Living people Contemporary classical music performers 1970 births Italian composers Place of birth missing (living people) 21st-century Italian classical pianists Italian women classical pianists 21st-century Italian women pianists