Carlotta Ferrari

Carlotta Ferrari served as chair of music composition at Hebei Normal University in Shijiazhuang, China, and is currently an adjunct professor of music composition at the Department of Arts and Music of ESE, Florence, Italy.

Her compositions have been performed in venues such as New York University, Steinway Haus in Hamburg and München, National Center for Performing Arts in Beijing, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, St. Gallen Cathedral, Manhattan Central Synagogue in NYC, Basilica di Santa Croce in Firenze, and other relevant theatres and churches. She won the 2nd award at the 2013 edition of Sisì-Frezza competition for women composers held by IFBPW (International Federation of Business and Professional Women) and the 2nd award at the 2018 edition of Opus Ignotum Choral Composition Competition (supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic). Ferrari’s music appears on several CD recordings, such as the monographic "Women of History: Music for Organ by Carlotta Ferrari", Carson Cooman, organ (Divine Arts Recordings 2018), and is regularly broadcast on WPRB Princeton and other radios. In 2017, the American Guild of Organists hosted a seminar dedicated to organ music by Carlotta Ferrari at Harvard University. In 2018, the same university commissioned a new Christmas choral song, performed at the 109th edition of the Christmas Carol Service. She has lectured in universities such as La Sorbonne Paris, France, and Bangor University, UK. Her main research interests concern new compositional modal grammars.