Music & Conversation with Ada GentileMusic & Conversation with Ada Gentilehttp://www.haverford.edu/calendar/details/124531Union Maccrate2010-03-26T16:15:002010-03-26T18:00:00
March 26, 4:15PM
Union Maccrate
On Friday, March 26th at 4:15 PM the Department of Music presents Music and Conversation with Italian composer Ada Gentile. This event will be held in MacCrate Recital Hall, Union, and is free and open to the public.
Description
Please join the Department of Music on Friday, March 26th at 4:15 PM for Music and Conversation with Italian composer Ada Gentile. This event will be held in MacCrate Recital Hall in the Union Music Building and is free and open to the public.
Ada Gentile is one of Italy’s leading composers and teachers of composition. She will be discussing her creative work within the wider spectrum of Italian contemporary music, sharing selected recordings. Live performances of her Concerto Study for solo piano and her String Quartet No. III will be featured, with Hannah Albrecht (BMC ’07) at the keyboard, and a talented student ensemble including Evan McGonagill, Inez Suhardjo, Halley Cody and Emilia Marcyk.
Gentile studied with Goffredo Petrassi, and taught for 25 years at Italy’s principal conservatory Santa Cecilia in Rome. She has been Artistic Director of Rome's Festival “Nuovi Spazi Musicali” since 1979, is a member of the board of the Venice Biennale for 5 years, and serves as Vice President of the AGIMUS (Italy's national Youth Musical Association).
For More Info
Nancy Merriam
610-896-1011
addr