Clotilde Rosa

(Maria) Clotilde (Belo de Carvalho) Rosa (Franco) (born 11 May 1930) is a Portuguese harpist, music educator and composer.

Biography

Clotilde Rosa was born in Queluz, 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.^[1]

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.^[2]

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

References

1. ^ Tyrrell, John (2001). The new Grove dictionary of music and musicians: Volume 21. http://books.google.com/books?id=_nBLAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA680&dq=Clotilde+Rosa+harp&hl=en&ei=Mt7cTPbUHcH88AawysW6BQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CD8Q6AEwAw. Retrieved 12 November 2010. 
2. ^ "Clotilde Rosa". http://www.classical-composers.org/comp/rosa. Retrieved 3 November 2010. 

External links

• List of works and discography

Persondata
Name	Rosa, Clotilde
Alternative names
Short description	Harpist and composer
Date of birth	11 May 1930
Place of birth	Queluz, Portugal
Date of death
Place of death