Our Conductor: Roselise Gentile
We welcome Roselise Gentile to The Preston Orpheus Choir and know that the quality of our sound and performances can only improve under her directorship.
Roselise Gentile carried out her Piano studies at the Conservatorio “A. Boito” in Parma Italy. After her piano diploma, she completed Harmony and Counterpoint studies.
She has studied choir conducting with Giovanni Acciai and Roberto Gabbiani, following the three year Advanced Course in Choral Practice and Choir Conducting “R. Goitre”.
From 1992 to 1996 she followed the International Courses in Gregorian chant held by Luigi Agustoni, Fulvio Rampi, Alberto Turco, Réginald Grégoire and Johannes Berchmans Göschl for international Association for Gragoriand Chant Studies Cremona, Italy.
In 1991 Roselise Gentile founded the “Ensemble Vocale Alia Musica”, 8 to 16 mixed voices chamber vocal group. For copyright reasons in 2002 the group changed to “Incantica”. Under her direction the Ensemble carried out an intense and increasingly prestigious performing activity in Italy, with a repertoire ranging from gregorian to ‘900 music. All of the concerts’ music is memorised for a better communication with the audience during the performance.
The Ensemble took part in many International competitions such as:-
“Incontro con la Polifonia” in Giarre, 1997
“Incontro internazionale Polifonico Città di Fano” in Fano 1998 and many more.
As conductor of Alia Musica Ensemble, Roselise Gentile carried out different peculiar projects, among which the performance of unpublished Psalms by Thomas Luis de Victoria, result of a recent musicological discovery, and the recording of a monographic CD with sacred and secular works by Spanish composer Juan De Anchieta(1462-1523)
In 1995 Roselise Gentile started to devote herself also to Orchestra Conducting, following for two years the international course held by Julius Kalmar for the “Hans Swarowshy “
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