Daniela Terranova

Daniela Terranova (born in Udine, Italy) is an Italian composer working in the area of concert music, opera and extended sonic environments. She studied composition with Azio Corghi and Beat Furrer at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz. Her music is published by Suvini Zerboni (Milan).

Prizes
In recent years, Terranova has won several national and international competitions, including: first prize at the international competition Gianni Bergamo Classic Music Award, Special Mention for Italian Music, premio SIAE (Rome, Competition Valentino Bucchi - Parco della Musica Contest), the prize Monte dei Paschi di Siena (Accademia Chigiana, Siena), first prize at the international competition contest Musica e Arte (Rome), first prize at the national competition Kinderszenen (Rome), and second prize at the International competition ICOMS (Turin).

In 2014, she won the international competition for the third edition of the Franco Donatoni International Meeting for Young Composers in Milan, and was as a result commissioned to write new composition for ensemble and dance by the Divertimento Ensemble with the support of the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation.

Work
Terranova's 2015 work for solo cello, A rose is a rose, is a rose, is a rose, written for Francesco Dillon, was identified by the composer as a new starting point in terms of the material she was using and the proximity of her relationship to the instrument. The material from this was later amplified and expanded into her piece for string orchestra, written in the same year, ''Interno metafisico. "D'après" De Chirico, for string orchestra''.

Performances
In 2014, Terranova's Asleep language was performed by the Camerata Nordica. Her work was described as being made up of "glassy harmonics creating a shrill, unnerving opening this wraithlike mood was sustained to create an almost surreal dreamscape."

Terranova's 2016 work, Notturna in forma di rosa, was performed by the London Sinfonietta (St John's Smith Square, London), and was subsequently broadcast by BBC Radio 3.

In 2017, she wrote A landscape in my hands for the pianist Anna D'Errico, which premiered at IRCAM in the same year.

<!-- She has also been performed at the Foundaciòn BBVA (Madrid); FLAGEY, Brussels, with HERMESensemble (sponsored by Ulysses network, with the support of the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation); Budapest Music Center; Time of Music Festival - Vitasaari, Finland (sponsored by Ulysses network, with the support of the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation); Musikaliska Concert Hall (Stockholm, with String Orchestra Camerata Nordica); Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama (Cardiff); Festival Styria Cantat VI (Graz, Helmut List Halle); Universität Mozarteum (Salzburg); Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (Son[UT]opìas project); Tallin Chamber Music Festival; Fidelio Trio Season (Dublin); Festival Traiettorie (Parma); Accademia Filarmonica di Bologna; Gran Teatro La Fenice (conductor: John Axelrod); Auditorium Parco della Musica (Roma); Teatro Dal Verme (Milano); Auditorium di Milano Fondazione Cariplo (La Verdi Symphony Season); Rondò 2013-2015 (Milano, international concerts of Divertimento Ensemble); Milano Musica (with Repertorio Zero); Accademia Musicale Chigiana; Festival Play it! (Florence, Orchestra Regionale della Toscana); Festival Internazionale della Valle d'Itria; International Concerts Season of Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana; Festival of Cadiz. She graduated with honors in Classical Languages and Literature at the University of Trieste, and in 2015 completed her international PhD program in Audiovisual Studies at the University of Udine (in collaboration with Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3), with a dissertation entitled Myth and Music in the Contemporary Musical Production for Theatre. -->

Works
• Rainbow Dust In The Sky, for string trio (2018)

• Hinoki. Still Life, baritone saxophone, accordion, double bass (2018)

• And Time Lets Fall Its Drop, for electric guitar (2018)

• Black Ink on Rice Paper, for piano trio (2017)

• Sentire con tatto, for string quartet (2017)

• Wood Metal Strings, harp (2017)

• A Landscape in My Hands, for piano (2017)

• Solo andata, for ensemble and children choir (2017)

• Di natura sottile, for flute, clarinet, percussion, piano, violin, viola, cello (2016)

• Notturno in forma di rosa, for flute, clarinet, violin, cello and piano (2016)

• Haiku, for orchestra (2016)

• Still life with roses, for flute, clarinet, percussion, piano, cello (2015)

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vykZx7DRP2o • Interno metafisico. "D'après" De Chirico, for string orchestra (2015)]

• A rose is a rose, is a rose, is a rose, for cello (2015)

• Asleep Landscape, for soprano, alto saxophone and string orchestra (2014)

• L'Orfeo. Immagini di una lontananza (2012) Opera (contemporary rewriting of L'Orfeo by Luigi Rossi),

for Chamber Orchestra (20 instruments) and Voices. Commission from Festival della Valle d'Itria.

The opera was premiered on July in Martina Franca, then repeated in Estonia, at Tallinn Chamber

Festival.