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Lucia Ronchetti is a contemporary Italian composer.
Lucia Ronchetti studied composition and computer music at the Conservatory of Santa Cecilia in Rome and took part in composition seminars with Sylvano Bussotti at the Scuola di Musica of Fiesole (1981–85) and with Salvatore Sciarrino at the Corsi Internazionali of Città di Castello (1988–1989). She studied humanities at the Sapienza University of Rome, where she got her degree in 1987, presenting a dissertation on Bruno Maderna's orchestral compositions. In 1991 she received a Diplôme d'Études Approfondies (D.E.A.) in aesthetics from the University of Paris I-Sorbonne. She subsequently studied musicology with François Lesure at the École Pratique des Hautes Études en Sorbonne and received a doctorate with her thesis on the orchestral style of Ernest Chausson and Wagnerian influence on late 19th-century French orchestral writing. In Paris she participated in composition seminars with Gérard Grisey (1993–1996) and took part in the annual computer music courses at IRCAM (1997) under the supervision of Tristan Murail. In 2005 she was a Visiting Scholar (Fulbright Fellow) at the Music Department of Columbia University (New York), having been invited by Tristan Murail.
Her works have been published by Rai Trade, Durand, Ricordi and Lemoine, and produced, commissioned and performed by such institutions as the Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich; Konzerthaus, Berlin; Rai Radio Tre, Rome; Deutschland Radio Kultur, Berlin; Ensemble Modern, Frankfurt; MaerzMusik, Berlin; Musik der Jahrhunderte, Stuttgart; Deutschland Radio, Berlin; ensemble recherche, Freiburg; Festival Ultrashall, Berlin; Orchestra of the Rai, Turin; WDR Sinfonieorchester, Cologne; Teatro La Fenice, Venice; Wittener Tagen, Witten; G. R. M., Radio France, Paris; and the Munich Biennale.