Gian Paolo Chiti (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Gian Paolo Chiti (born January 21, 1939 in Rome) is an Italian composer and pianist. After beginning his studies in piano, violin and composition at the age of four, he made a series of appearances as a child prodigy before entering the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, Italy's most important music school, at the age of ten. His principal teachers include Carlo Zecchi, Arturo Bonucci and Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (private and masterclass studies). Chiti was a prizewinner in the Treviso and Busoni competitions. Gian Paolo Chiti began a duel career as a concert pianist, often in the company of his wife, the noted mezzo soprano and president and founder of the Adkins-Chiti Donne in Musica foundation Patricia Adkins Chiti and as a composer.