Clotilde Rosa
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Clotilde (Belo de Carvalho) Rosa (Franco) (born 11 May 1930) is a Portuguese
harpist, music educator and composer
.
, Portugal
, and began piano lessons at age ten with Ivone Santos. She also began harp lessons at the age of twelve under Cecilia Borba at the Lisbon
Conservatory. She continued her harp studies with several scholarships in Amsterdam
with Phia Berghout, in Paris
with Jacqueline Borot and in Cologne
with Hans Zingel. After completing her studies, she worked as a harp soloist with various orchestras and ensembles.
In 1970 Rosa co-founded the Lisbon Contemporary Music Group (GMCL) with composer Jorge Peixinho
, which performed contemporary music in Portugal, Brazil
and Europe
. She studied at the Darmstadt
Summer Courses for three years and developed an interest in composition.
Rosa won the first National Composition Contest of Portugal with her work Variantes for solo flute. She teaches harp at the Lisbon Conservatory of Music and continues work as a composer.
Clotilde's works have been recorded and issued on CD, including:
Portuguese people
The Portuguese are a nation and ethnic group native to the country of Portugal, in the west of the Iberian peninsula of south-west Europe. Their language is Portuguese, and Roman Catholicism is the predominant religion....
harpist, music educator and composer
Composer
A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...
.
Biography
Clotilde Rosa was born in QueluzQueluz
Queluz may refer to:*Queluz, Portugal, a city in the municipality of Sintra, Portugal**The Queluz National Palace, located in the city*Queluz , a civil parish in the municipality of Sintra, Portugal...
, Portugal
Portugal
Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...
, and began piano lessons at age ten with Ivone Santos. She also began harp lessons at the age of twelve under Cecilia Borba at the Lisbon
Lisbon
Lisbon is the capital city and largest city of Portugal with a population of 545,245 within its administrative limits on a land area of . The urban area of Lisbon extends beyond the administrative city limits with a population of 3 million on an area of , making it the 9th most populous urban...
Conservatory. She continued her harp studies with several scholarships in Amsterdam
Amsterdam
Amsterdam is the largest city and the capital of the Netherlands. The current position of Amsterdam as capital city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands is governed by the constitution of August 24, 1815 and its successors. Amsterdam has a population of 783,364 within city limits, an urban population...
with Phia Berghout, in Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
with Jacqueline Borot and in Cologne
Cologne
Cologne is Germany's fourth-largest city , and is the largest city both in the Germany Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia and within the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Area, one of the major European metropolitan areas with more than ten million inhabitants.Cologne is located on both sides of the...
with Hans Zingel. After completing her studies, she worked as a harp soloist with various orchestras and ensembles.
In 1970 Rosa co-founded the Lisbon Contemporary Music Group (GMCL) with composer Jorge Peixinho
Jorge Peixinho
Jorge Peixinho was a Portuguese composer, pianist, and conductor.Peixinho studied composition and piano initially at the Conservatory of Lisbon , then studied composition with Boris Porena and Goffredo Petrassi at the Accademia de Santa Cecilia in Rome, graduating in 1961...
, which performed contemporary music in Portugal, Brazil
Brazil
Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...
and Europe
Europe
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. She studied at the Darmstadt
Darmstadt
Darmstadt is a city in the Bundesland of Hesse in Germany, located in the southern part of the Rhine Main Area.The sandy soils in the Darmstadt area, ill-suited for agriculture in times before industrial fertilisation, prevented any larger settlement from developing, until the city became the seat...
Summer Courses for three years and developed an interest in composition.
Rosa won the first National Composition Contest of Portugal with her work Variantes for solo flute. She teaches harp at the Lisbon Conservatory of Music and continues work as a composer.
Works
Rosa has composed more than seventy works for solo instrument, chamber ensemble and symphonic orchestra and has also written opera and cantata. Selected works include:- Encontro for flute and string quartet
- Variantes for flute solo
- Alternâncias for flute and piano
- Três Cançoes breves
- Vozes de Florabela
- Cinzas de Sísifo
- Glosas Proprias
- Quiet fire
- Amor que mal existe
- O fabricar da música e do silêncio
- El vaso reluciente
- Canto Circular
Clotilde's works have been recorded and issued on CD, including:
- Musica para poesia Portuguesa / Cathariou, Martins, Tiexeira, Martins, et al.; (2008-09-09) La Ma De Guido
- Spiral Of Light: Portuguese Music for Strings and Marimba (2010-06-08) EtCetera Records