LUCIA BOVA After completing her musical studies in Italy at a young age, Lucia Bova studied for two years in Nice, France, at the Conservatoire where she was presented with a diploma in harp performance, gaining the 1990 "Premier Prix à l'Unanimité". At the same time, she was first harpist with the Orchestra "A. Scarlatti" of National Broadcasting Radio (Rai) in Naples from 1989 to 1992, and from 1994 to 1996 she was first harpist with the Orchestra Sinfonica dell'Emilia Romagna "Arturo Toscanini" in Parma, also appearing in Parma as soloist with the Teatro Regio.
In 1995 she published for Italian revue Sonus the article (in collaboration with Graziano Tisato at the University of Padova) "La Faccia nascosta dell'arpa: Un percorso nello spazio timbrico delle nuove tecniche esecutive".
Since then she has worked with a variety of ensembles in the performance of contemporary music, including: Ars-Ludi, Ensemble Alter Ego, the soloists of the Accademia Filarmonica of Rome, Polimnia Ensemble, Ensemble Musica d'Oggi, RomaSinfonietta and Ensemble Dissonanzen.
She has appeared as soloist in a number of concerts, specializing in the performance of new music in Italy: La Fenice Theatre in Venice, Romaeuropa Festival e Festival of Nuova Consonanza in Rome, X Colloquio Internazionale sulla Musica e l'Informatica of Milan, Incontri in Terra di Siena, Rassegna di Nuova Musica of Macerata, Festival of New Music with ancient instruments in Urbino, Festival of Nations in Città di Castello.
She has also appeared as soloist in recitals in France (Paris, Nice and Figanières en Provence), Germany (Norimberg, Hannover, Sindelfingen, Iserlhon and Ludwigsburg), Canada (Montreal), United States (Chicago, Boston, Seattle, Detroit, New York, San Diego), at the Warsaw Autumn Festival (Poland), at CDMC Concerts in Madrid and recently at the Rio World Harp Festival (Rio de Janeiro).
She has made recordings on the Mode Records (New York), EDI-Pan, Capstone, Neuma, Valdom and Label Bleu labels, including pieces for solo harp and harp with other instruments. She has also recorded solos harp written especially for her by Ennio Morricone. With the Polimnia Ensemble she recorded a CD dedicated to 19th century Russian music which was included in the journal "Musicalia". On December 2002 the Bongiovanni Editions (Bologna, Italy) published her CD entirely dedicated to 18th century music for harp including unknown or rare works originally written for that instrument.
Recently Suvini Zerboni Edition published her book on modern Harp "L'arpa moderna" with a wonderfull preface preface by Luis de Pablo.
Courtesy of www.luciabova.it
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