Ada Gentile

She was also awarded the Cavaliere al merito of the Italian Republic.

Ada Gentile studied at Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia. The recorded working language is Italian. The field of work recorded is music. Places of work recorded in the authority are Rome. Employment is recorded with Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia. Distinctions recorded are Knight of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic.

Ada Gentile was born in Avezzano and attended the Conservatorio di St. Cecilia in Rome, graduating in piano and composition. She then completed a graduate degree in composition at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia with Goffredo Petrassi. She was successful in international competitions, including Gaudeamus in 1982, ISCM, Budapest in 1986 and Essen in 1995. She has lectured at Northwestern University, Juilliard School, Wayne State University, Columbia University, the University of Chicago and the University of California, Berkeley in the United States and also widely in Europe and Asia. She was Deputy Director of St. Cecilia Conservatory from 1999 to 2005, and has been instrumental in organizing a number of music festivals. She was advisor to the Venice Biennale Festival from 1993 to 1997, and was artistic director of Nuovi Spazi Musicali, Rome, Goffredo Petrassi Chamber Orchestra, Rome and the opera house in Ascoli Piceno. From 1978 she taught at the Rome Conservatory. Her works have been performed internationally. Gentile was honoured by the Polish Ministry of Culture in 1988 ‘for cultural services’.

Selected works include: • 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 Bflat 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)