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Carla Magnan
4+ albums
Contemporary Composeritaliangammarec2juma
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Carla Magnan, was born in Genoa (Italy), got her diploma in Composition, Piano and Harpsichord at the conservatory of her city. In 2003 she took a diploma in advanced composition at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, under the guidance of Azio Corghi. She also studied at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena (in 2001, under scholarship) and at the Romanini Foundation in Brescia, doing advanced work with Mauro Bonifacio. Her language comprises both classical forms going back to baroque and the most daring experimental ways of writing "…it is something wise and lovable, ratio and eros will converge to the same extent - there is abandonment - to stay in the modern, in the present, which is given by the melodies that stop themself, get lost and seek ways where the free sound intends to assert its rights" (M. Gamba, press) She attended instrumental specialization courses on the antique, classical, contemporary and jazz repertoires with famous teachers including Kenneth Gilbert, Massimiliano Damerini and on the composition of film music and cinematographic techniques, with A. Ambrosi, G.Gaslini and C.Savina. She took part in master classes by J. Harbison in 1998 (Pulitzer Prize in Music), Chester Biscardi in 1999 and Mauricio Kagel in 2002. For her work as a harpsichordist, she won a scholarship in February 2000, from the European Community for a course of advanced studies in early music at the Accademia Musicale of Saluzzo, where she took a diploma the f
