Gian Paolo Chiti


Gian Paolo Chiti is an Italian composer and pianist.

Biography

Gian Paolo Chiti began studying music at the age of four, specializing in piano, violin, and composition. At the age of ten, he trained under Armando Renzi before joining the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome. His teachers included Carlo Zecchi, Arturo Bonucci, and Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli. In 1960, Chiti won prizes in the Treviso and the Ferruccio Busoni [International Piano Competition].
Chiti has had a dual career as a composer and concert pianist. He often performed alongside his late wife, mezzo-soprano Patricia Adkins Chiti. He composed works for film and television as well as concerts and festivals in Italy and abroad. His compositions have featured at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, the Venice Biennale, the Edinburgh International Festival, and the Lutosławski Festival.
Since 1984, Chiti has served as the Director of the Composition Department at the Conservatorio of Santa Cecilia in Rome. He is also a member of the Italian National Committee for Dance and serves on the faculty boards of several universities.

Chronological works list

This list includes all serious concert music composed by Gian Paolo Chiti, including works for young musicians. It does not include transcriptions and arrangements, film and television scores or popular works.
  • Zoological Garden
  • O Sacrum Convivium
  • Sestetto a fiato n° 1
  • Sestetto a fiato n° 2
  • Quartetto per Archi
  • Cinque preludi per pianoforte
  • Suite per pianoforte n° 2
  • Tre mottetti per coro misto
  • Per orchestra
  • Tre pezzi per pianoforte
  • Concerto per orchestra d’archi
  • Concerto per dieci strumenti
  • Due mottetti a cappella
  • Inscription
  • Nachtmusik
  • Serenade per cinque strumenti
  • Divertimento n° 2
  • Especially When The October Wind
  • Holy Sonnet of John Donne
  • Pilatus
  • Ricercare ’70
  • We lying by the Sea Sand
  • Y Ara Dirè
  • Conversation with myself
  • Matrona Quaedam
  • Violin concerto
  • In Dateless Night
  • Into my own
  • Lebenslauf
  • Sie erlischt
  • Yerma
  • A Dylan Thomas
  • Andante
  • Divertimento
  • Elegia
  • Movements per pianoforte
  • Breakers
  • El Icaro
  • Ottetto per 2 soprani, 2 contralti, 2 tenori, 2 bassi
  • Rencontres
  • Spleen
  • Dal profondo
  • Prelude d’automne
  • Replay
  • Shahed-B
  • Games Around the Six with Eleven
  • Persefone
  • Piccola raccolta per organo
  • Rondeau
  • Anthem
  • In Mind
  • Flutar
  • Pastorale
  • Preludio romantico
  • Piccola suite per pianoforte
  • Serenata
  • Around
  • Melodia
  • Adieu adieu
  • Rag prelude per pianoforte
  • Retour
  • Trivium
  • Arion
  • In the Merry Month of May
  • Kammerstück
  • Konzertstuck
  • Per lontane vie per pianoforte
  • Ground
  • Ipodyon
  • Triplum
  • Wintermusik
  • In Sogno
  • Recordari
  • Tropi per chartres
  • Fogli d’album
  • Abendstucke per pianoforte
  • Action
  • European suite
  • Kinamama
  • Octopus Line
  • Salve regina
  • European Lieder Book
  • Intermezzo
  • Arion suite per pianoforte
  • Cahier des Reves
  • Tre liriche su poesie di J. Basile
  • Triple
  • Concertino per sax tenore e otto violoncelli
  • Sur les bois oubliés
  • Rime
  • Laudarium in onore della beata vergine Maria
  • Plexus
  • Envers
  • Extrême per pianoforte
  • Seagulls per pianoforte
  • En ecoutant la nuit
  • L’età dell’ombra
  • Burlesque
  • Capriccio
  • Counterpoint in F
  • Prelude
  • Two liturgical pieces
  • Viorgan for viola and organ
  • Blackround
  • Florale
  • Nual
  • Sonatensatz
  • Under the Left Hand
  • Saxitude
  • Chaconne retrouvée
  • Teorìte
  • Memoires
  • Chopin Promenade
  • Quaternalis
  • October quintet
  • The Dorian way
  • Fluàl
  • Languisco e moro