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Bianca Maria Furgeri (b. 1935)

Appointed Head of Harmony and Counterpoint in 1969 at Bologna Conservatoire, Bianca Maria Furgeri was previously Director at the Rovigo Conservatoire. She has won several national and international composition competitions, as well as other prizes awarded by cities including Arezzo and Rome where she won the “Benedetto XVI” Competition in 2013 with an Ave Maria for mixed choir). She composes much on commission, and is a prominent figure in the solo, chamber music and choral repertoire of Italy. The Women In Music Foundation (Rome) chose one of her works (Rosa Rorans) for performance in San Pietro, to conclude the festivities of Saint Bridget of Sweden (2002) and also commissioned another two choral works (Introitus and Agnus Dei) which were then performed in a collaborative Mass set by multiple composers, dedicated to Pope Francis. Her works are published by Rugginenti, Carrara, Ricordi, Choris-Mundi and EurArte, which also sells some of her pieces on CD. A new CD of her sacred choral works has recently been released thanks to the Bank of Monte di Rovigo Foundation. The musicologist Renzo Cresti has published a paper on her musical language and numerous conservatoires and academies have held concerts of her music. (Bianca Maria Furgeri, trans. Miriam Endersby)