Lucio Gregoretti


Disciplines: Music Composition
Disciplines: Music Composition
Based in Rome, ITALY
Residencies: 2005, 2006, 2011

Lucio Gregoretti has composed symphonic and chamber music regularly performed mostly in Europe. He has also composed musical comedies, film scores, and incidental music for theatre plays.

At MacDowell in 2005, he continued work on L'Ultimo Avventore, a stage opera in one act. During his 2006 residency, he realized a new version of P.A.C.E. for chamber orchestra, which would be performed in Italy by the Nuova Orchestra Scarlatti. He also entirely composed Mundus Novus for flute and piano for a CD release containing music by Italian and America composers. During his 2011 residency, Gregoretti worked on a mass for soloists, choir and orchestra commissioned by the Pergolesi Spontini Festival.

Studios

Van Zorn

Lucio Gregoretti worked in the Van Zorn studio.

Constructed thanks to a bequest from Sarah L. Kirby, Kirby Studio was the last new building to be erected during Mrs. MacDowell’s leadership (1907-1951). The load-bearing masonry walls were laid by local mason Augustus Beaulieu atop a fieldstone foundation. A 1995 renovation preserved the brick fireplace with wooden mantel and…

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