Maria Gabriella Zen
Italian composer (born 1957)
Maria Gabriella Zen (born 3 November 1957) is an Italian composer.
Biography
Maria Gabriella Zen completed her education through studies in both music and humanities, graduating in Piano (1977), Choral Music and Choir Conducting (1979), and Composition (1985) at the Conservatory of Music "C. Pollini" in Padua. She also earned a Bachelor's degree in Literature with a thesis in Music History (1982) and a PhD in Linguistics (2012) from Ca' Foscari University of Venice. Her compositional training, undertaken under the guidance of Wolfango Dalla Vecchia, continued at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena with Franco Donatoni during the Summer Advanced Courses of 1982 and 1983.
In 1986, her chamber opera L'amore di Don Perlimplino con Belisa nel giardino with text after Federico García Lorca was in the final short list of the Internationaler Carl-Maria-von-Weber-Wettbewerb für Kammeropern 1986 at the Semperoper in Dresden.
On March 27, 1993, the Arditti Quartet performed her first string quartet Liederkreis at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice.
In November 1993, her piece Salmi for solo soprano was among the finalists in the Olympia International Composition Competition in Athens.
She represented Italy in the 3rd Workshop for Artists of the EU organized in October 2003 by the European Parliament in Oslip, Austria, with In der Wüste for mezzo-soprano, contralto, and percussion.
In Spring 2004, along with ten other European composers, she participated in writing the suite 11-Eleven, commissioned by the EU to commemorate the victims of terrorism and the accession of new nations to the EU on May 1, 2004, with the XIth movement (Finale: Pax, luminosa Pax).
On October 8, 2004, she represented Italy at the Concert of New Music by European composers that inaugurated the Rossi Hall of the reconstructed Teatro La Fenice.
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