AGENDA
BIOGRAFIA
CORALE POLIFONICA "A.ANTONELLI"
ORCHESTRA
"G.SPONTINI"
ACCADEMIA DELLA LIBELLULA
Cinzia Pennesi is renowned for her activity as orchestra and choir conductor, pianist and composer in Italy, Germany, Spain, Greece, Romania, Switzerland, Malta and South America. Her expertise as teacher and composer with Sir Neville Marriner in New York has won her a prestigious presence at Carnegie Hall (2001).
She graduated
with highest score (first class diploma) in piano, choral music and
conduction at
‘F.
Morlacchi’
conservatoir of Perugia.
She then attended courses
and master classes with G. Kuhn and B.
Aprea for orchestral direction; G. Acciai,
P. Righele for choir conduction;
G. Santorsola for composition; J. Demus, A.
Lonquich, L. Passacaglia and I. Gage for piano and S. Woodbury for voice
studies. She also specialised in composition and
analysis with F. Dellipizzi. In 1993 she founded
‘Orchestra G. Spontini’, which she conducts
on a regular basis and with which she recorded numerous CDs and attended
prestigious events such as ‘Festival Barocco di Viterbo’ and ‘Stagione
della
Fondazione Pergolesi’. The orchestra was ambassador for Italy in the 1996
‘Cumbre Mundial del Tango’ in Uruguay with bandoneon artist H. U.
Passarella. She is Director of ‘Accademia della
Libellula-FrauMusika’, focusing on projects of contemporary studies, with a
specific angle on women composers. She has been invited to numerous
Festivals: ‘Concerti del Tempietto’ in Rome, ‘Amici della
Musica’ events all over Italy
(Bari, Cosenza, Ancona, etc.), ‘Ente Concerti’ in Pesaro, ‘Cefalonia
Festival’ in Greece; and prestigious venues such as ‘Sala Maffeiana’ in
Verona, ‘Pergolesi
Theatre’ in Jesi, ‘Rossini Theatre’ in Pesaro, ‘Lauro-Rossi Theatre’ in
Macerata, ‘Sala Baldini’ in Rome; abroad, ‘Argostoli Theatre’ in Cefalonia (Greece),
‘Marbella Cathedral’ in Spain, ‘Bellinzona Castel’ in Switzerland.
In 1990 Cinzia
Pennesi became conductor in residence for ‘Corale Polifonica A.
Antonelli’ in Matelica, with which she has been collaborating (concerts,
recordings) ever since.
In July 2000 she was commissioned by ‘Macerata Opera’ the
re-orchestration of ‘Rappresentazione di Anima et di Corpo’ by Emilio de’ Cavalieri
(philological edition completely
under her
supervision), on the anniversary of its first performance in four
hundred years. She has recorded for RAIRADIO-DUE
and RAI-INTERNATIONAL, plus KHO. Her collaborations as conductor
include ‘Gl’Echi d’Archadia’ orchestra, ‘Florilegio Musicale Barocco’,
‘Orchestra da Camera delle Marche’, ‘Orchestra Sinfonica della Romagna’,
‘Orchestra Sinfonica del Centro Europeo della Musica’,
‘FraMusika’ ensemble, ‘Symphony Orchestra of Solingen’ (Germany).
One of her ‘cinematic’ works (‘Il fantasma dell’Opera –
The Phantom of the Opera’) has been recently staged at
‘Accademia d’Ungheria – Hungary Academy’
in Rome. In July 2002 she directed and completely
supervised the Italian premiere of ‘La Chatte Metamorphosee en Femme’ (Domenico
Carboni Italian adaptation).
As
a pianist, Cinzia Pennesi is a dedicated performer – together with Laura
Pennesi (viola) and Elisabetta Lombardi (mezzosoprano) – of chamber
repertoire. They founded in collaboration with Anna Pennesi the research
group ‘Accademia della Libellula’. In 1999 she was
awarded in Campidoglio (Rome) the ‘Picus del Ver Sacrum’ prize. She also won
the ‘Marchigiano dell’anno’ prize. Since 1995 she
is Artistic Director of ‘Piermarini Theatre’ in Matelica; since 1991 of
‘Festival Conosciamo l’Autore’ and the year 2000 marks the start of a
collaboration as director of ‘Amici della Musica’ in Fabriano.
OPERA APERTA
FESTIVAL CONOSCIAMO L'AUTORE
RASSEGNA CORI POLIFONICI "CITTA' DI MATELICA"
TEATRO PIERMARINI
COLLABORATORI
