SONIA BO - ITALY
BORN 27 MARCH Italian composer of mostly chamber, choral and vocal works that have been performed in Asia, Europe and North America.
Ms. Bo received her diploma in piano in 1981 and in choral music and conducting in 1983. She studied composition with Azio Corghi and Renato Dionisi at the Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi in Milan, where she received her diploma in 1985. She completed her postgraduate studies in composition with Franco Donatoni at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome in 1988.
Among her honours are Primo Premio in the competition Guido d'Arezzo in Arezzo (1985, for Frammenti da Jacopone), Primo Premio in the competition of the European Cultural Foundation (1985, for Da una lettura di Husserl), Primo Premio in the competition Giuseppe Savagnone in Rome (1986, for Quartetto), Primo Premio in the competition Alpe Adria Giovani in Trieste (1988, for Due Bagatelle), and the Premio Musicale Città di Trieste (1995, for Synopsis).
She has taught composition at the Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi since 1997. She previously taught in Ferrara, Pesaro, Piacenza, and Verona.
She is married to the composer Giuseppe Colardo. Her primary publisher is Casa Ricordi, but Edizioni Edi.Pan, Edizioni musicali Curci, Edizioni Sconfinarte, and Rugginenti Editore are the publishers of some works.
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FLORENTINE MULSANT - SENEGAL
BORN 27 MARCH
Florentine Mulsant studied at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Paris the traditional disciplines (harmony, counterpoint, fugue, analysis and orchestration) and at the Schola Cantorum, where she won the 1st Prize in composition in 1987 with Allain Gaussin. she followed the instructions of Franco Donatoni at Academia Chigiana in Siena (Italy) and perfected with Alain Bancquart.
Having many times tried out the keyboard of the family piano, to which she felt an irrepressible attraction, Florentine Mulsant entered the Paris Conservatory where she studied for twelve years. From here, with Alain Bancquart as teacher, to the Schola Cantorum with Allain Gaussin, via some masterclasses abroad, notably in Sienna with Franco Donatoni, she built up a solid experience of composing. This enabled her not only to go beyond improvisation but also to acquire precious tools that did not, however, make her lose sight of the basics, i.e. the development of a personal musical style in which expression plays a fundamental role. For Florentine Mulsant, the affective presence of the creative artiste in his compositions together with music of strong character are part of those essential components that drive her approach to composition. Solo works (Sonata for cello, op. 27), chamber music (String Quartet, op. 26), the symphonic repertory (Symphony for strings, op. 32): Mulsant’s catalogue comprises some forty works, in which expressive necessity is accompanied by strict demands with regard to the quality of the form and the musical ideas.
From 1991 to 1998, she was teaching harmony and counterpoint at the University of Paris IV-Sorbonne. In 2011, she won the Nadia and Lili Boulanger Prize from the Académie des Beaux-Arts.
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