Irma Ravinale

Irma Ravinale (1 October 1937  7 April 2013) was an Italian composer and music educator.[1]

Biography

Irma Ravinale was born in Naples, Italy. She studied composition at the Rome Conservatory of Santa Cecilia with Goffredo Petrassi, and continued her studies with Nadia Boulanger in Paris and Karlheinz Stockhausen in Cologne, also studying piano, conducting and choral music. After completing her education, she took a position in 1966 teaching composition at the Conservatory Santa Cecilia in Rome.[2]

Ravinale became director of San Pietro a Maijella Conservatory in Naples where she served until 1989 and then Director of the Conservatory of Santa Cecilia where she served until 1999. She is member of the International Honour Committee of the Fondazione Donne in Musica.[3]

Ravinale died in Rome, Italy, at the age of 75 on April 7, 2013.[1][4]

Honors and awards

Works

Ravinale composes works for symphony orchestra, chamber ensembles and musical theatre. Selected works include:

References

  1. 1 2 Staff (10 April 2013). "Fallece la compositora Irma Ravinale" (in Spanish). mundoclasico.com. Retrieved 10 April 2013.
  2. Sadie, Julie Anne; Samuel, Rhian (1994). The Norton/Grove dictionary of women composers (Digitized online by GoogleBooks). Retrieved 4 October 2010.
  3. "A CELEBRATION OF WOMEN IN MUSIC" (PDF). Retrieved 26 October 2010.
  4. Irma Ravinale
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