Silvia Colasanti graduated in piano with Valentino Di Bella and in composition with Luciano Pelosi and Gian Paolo Chiti at the Conservatorio Santa Cecilia
of Rome, where she also studied music history and aesthetics
with Claudio Annibaldi.
She then attended master class with Fabio Vacchi and was
selected for the atelier de composition held by Wolfgang
Rihm and Pascal Dusapin at the Centre Acanthes (Metz,
France).
She attended (obtaining a diploma with merit) an advanced composition course held by Azio Corghi at Accademia Musicale Chigiana.
She also got a diploma for a master course in composition,
held by Azio Corghi, at Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
in Rome.
She received from the President de la Republique
the "Goffredo Petrassi" scholarship as the best graduated.
She has received various awards at national and international competitions, including the Zeitklang – Musikfabrik NÖ – Wien, the Lopes-Graça –
Lisbon, the ICOMS - Turin, the “Valentino Bucchi”- Rome, the “Egidio Carella”, the “Città di Varese” and the Settimane Musicali of Stresa.
The Adkins Chiti: Women in Music Foundation (Rome) has commissioned her to write
a piece of sacred music for the Vatican City. Radio Rai has also selected Silvia Colasanti to be Italy’s representative at the International
Rostrum of Composers.
Recently the Civitella Ranieri Foundation of New York awarded her a grant
to support her composing activity.
Her works have been played at various festivals, including the Biennale Musica (Venice), Settembre Musica (Turin), Kuhmon Kamarimusiikki (Kuhmo, Finland), Festival Berio (Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Rome), Sagra Musicale Umbra (Perugia), Orquestra Metropolitana de Lisboa (Cascais, Portogallo), Accademia Musicale Chigiana (Siena), Orchestra National de Belgique - Palais des Beaux Arts (Brussels), Orchestra della Toscana (Teatro Verdi – Florence), Orchestra del Lazio (Parco della Musica – Rome), Unione Musicale (Turin), Accademia Filarmonica Romana (Rome), Fondazione Cini (Venice), Progetto Musica (Rome), Antidogma Musica (Turin), Compositori a confronto (Reggio Emilia), Teatro Parenti (Milano), Great Hall (Podgorica), Università “Tor Vergata”(Rome), Palazzo Altemps (Rome), Galleria Comunale d’arte moderna e contemporanea (Rome), Palazzo della Cancelleria (Rome), Estate Musicale (Portogruaro).
Internet site:
Works:
Silvia Colasanti’s works are published by Casa Ricordi – Universal Music Publishing S.r.l. (Milan).
Musical theatre:
Amor non conosciuto (2006)
With a text by Enzo Siciliano from Memoriale della Beat'Angela da Foligno
Sul mare amaro dell’amore (2008)
Prologo e cinque quadri intorno al Decamerone
Chamber music:
Aber alles vergeht (2005)
Ahi!,vista troppo dolce e troppo amara (Orfeo nel Buio)
Canto rosso (2007)
Come foglie sospese nell’aurora (2005)
Orchestral works :
Cede pietati, dolor (Le anime di Medea) (2007)
Des(s)erts (2007)
Grido velato (2006)
Rifrazioni in canto (2005)
Tra il fuoco e la rugiada (2005)