Ada Gentile facts for kids
Ada Gentile (born on July 26, 1947) is an Italian musician. She is known as a talented pianist and a composer, which means she writes music.
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Life
Ada Gentile was born in Avezzano, Italy. She studied music at the Conservatorio di St. Cecilia in Rome. A conservatorio is a special school for music. She learned to play the piano and also how to compose music there.
After that, she continued her studies at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia. This is another important music academy. She learned from a famous composer named Goffredo Petrassi.
Ada Gentile has taught music at many universities around the world. She lectured at places like Northwestern University, Juilliard School, and Columbia University in the United States. She also taught in Europe and Asia.
From 1999 to 2005, she was the Deputy Director of St. Cecilia Conservatory. This means she helped lead the school. She also helped organize many music festivals. These are events where musicians perform and share their music. Her musical pieces have been played in many countries.
Honors and awards
Ada Gentile has received several important awards for her work:
- Gaudeamus prize in 1982
- ISCM Budapest prize in 1986
- ISCM Essen prize in 1995
- Cavaliere al merito of Italian Republic. This is a special honor given by the Italian government.
Works
Ada Gentile has composed many different pieces of music. Here are some of her selected works:
- Adagios for string orchestra (1993–94)
- Adagio for a Summer for flute and strings (1998)
- Concertante for flute, guitar and orchestra (1989)
- Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra (1995)
- Concert ("Veni Lumen Cordis") for female voice (or B♭ clarinet) and orchestra (1993)
- Criptografia (Cryptography) for viola and chamber orchestra (1985)
- Two Episodes for organ, orchestra and voice in echo (1988)
- Flighty for orchestra (1982)
- Around for flute, clarinet and viola (1984)
- Insight for 2 violins and viola (1984)
- Perviolasola for viola solo (1987)
- Music Scene (1996)
- Piccolo concerto for chamber orchestra (1995)
- Shading for guitar and chamber orchestra (1988)
- Veränderungen for symphony orchestra (1976)
- Why Not? for orchestra (1985)
- She Begged My Mother for orchestra and narrator (2000)
Discography
Ada Gentile has many recordings of her music. A discography is a list of all the recordings an artist has made. Here are some of her selected recordings:
- La voce contemporanea in Italia, Vol. 2 - Audio CD (Stradivarius, 2006) by Ennio Morricone, Bruno Maderna, Ada Gentile, Carlo Mosso, et al.
- Vittorio Fellegara: Requiem di Madrid, Die Irae, Notturno Ada Gentile: Criptografia, Shading - Audio CD by Ada Gentile, Vittorio Fellegara, Giulio Bertola, Lev Martkitz, et al.
- Paesaggi Della Mente - Audio CD by Ada Gentile and Manuel Zurria - flute
- Plot in Fiction - Audio CD (Aug. 27, 2002) by Enrico Correggia, Luca Francesconi, Giacinto Scelsi, Ada Gentile, et al.
- Musica De Camera - Audio CD (Dec. 12, 1995)
