Patricia Adkins Chiti Explained

Patricia Adkins Chiti (died 12 June 2018) was a British-Italian mezzo-soprano, musicologist, and advocate for women in classical music. She founded Donne in Musica ('Women in Music') in 1978, which became Fondazione Adkins Chiti: Donne in Musica ('The Adkins Chiti Foundation: Women in Music') in 1996.[1] She was recognised by Women in Music Uniting Strategies for Talent (WIMUST) for her work,[2] [3] and received numerous prizes and awards, including the Rosario Marciano Musical Research Award.[4] [5]

Biography

Born Patricia Adkins in England, she performed in public from childhood. She completed her studies at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London and the Teatro dell'Opera in Rome, where she made her operatic debut in 1972.[1]

From 1980, Adkins Chiti conducted festivals, concert series and symposiums in Italy and abroad, and worked as an expert in cultural policy with governments and universities in Europe, USA and Asia. She was a member of the Italian Commission for Equal Opportunities, and in March 1998, by invitation from the Director General of UNESCO, she presented a series of proposals in favour of women at the World Intergovernmental Conference for Cultural Policies for Development in Stockholm.[1]

Chiti wrote and published academic books and more than 500 articles on the history of women in music, and edited publications about the Baroque period and music of the 18th century. She wrote 40 books and about 800 scholarly articles on female composers and other musical cultural creators, and about the history of singers and musical families for publishers in Italy, Europe, Asia, the United States and Latin America and prepared editions musical reviews of works by women in Italy and the United States.[1] In her later years, her activities included the production of an opera for the International Mozart celebrations in Vienna, the publication of academic volumes, including a book on the history of women in jazz, and a history of women in the Mediterranean region.

Beginning in 2000, she collected second-hand music, books and CDs, and sent them to many parts of the world, especially to Africa, Latin America and Eastern Europe.[1] In 2012, she supervised the collection of materials for the Conservatory in L'Aquila after the earthquake there.[1]

In 2004, the President of Italy honoured her with the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic.

She died on 12 June 2018.[6]

Fondazione Adkins Chiti: Donne in Musica

Adkins Chiti founded the non-governmental organisation Donne in Musica ('Women in Music') in 1978,[7] [8] to promote women's musical creativity. This organisation grew into the Fondazione Adkins Chiti: Donne in Musica, established in 1996,[9] [10] a member organisation of the UNESCO International Music Council and European Music Council.

As of 2015, the foundation had a membership of 41,000 female composers and musicians from 109 countries. The foundation's library and archive contains over 43,000 scores by female composers from different periods, encyclopaedias, books and databases, and a digital Encyclopaedia of Living European Women Composers, Songwriters and Creators of Music.[11] The foundation has published more than 50 books on the history of women as composers, in English, Italian and Arabic.[1]

The foundation has sponsored the European Union's Women in Music Uniting Strategies for Talent (WIMUST) programme, which works to address gender-based discrimination and inequalities for women in music.[12] [13] [14]

Personal life

Adkins was married to Italian composer Gian Paolo Chiti from the 1960s. She spoke English, Italian, French and German; in 2012 she was said to be studying Arabic.[1]

Selected bibliography

Selected recordings

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Patricia Chiti . Women in Jazz . 23 December 2023 . 2011-06-02.
  2. Web site: Time to talk about sexism in the arts . Women's Views on News . 23 December 2023 . 2012-10-28.
  3. Web site: Patricia Adkins Chiti . Silvia Costa (Introduction) . European key changes for women in music and performing arts by FONDAZIONE DONNE IN MUSICA . Issuu . S&D - European Parliament, Bruxelles, 2014 . 23 December 2023 . en . 14 March 2014.
  4. Web site: Premio de Investigación Musical "Rosario Marciano" Coordinadora Internacional de Mujeres en el Arte . "Rosario Marciano" Prize for musical investigation: International Coordinator of Women in Art . ComuArte . web.archive.org . 1 January 2018 . 5 January 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20110105210057/http://www.comuarte.org/02_04.htm . 5 January 2011 .
  5. Web site: Premio Rosario Marciano . "Rosario Marciano" (Musical Research) Award . ComuArte . web.archive.org . 1 January 2018 . 19 February 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160219025906/http://comuarte.org/premio-xochipilli/ . 19 February 2016 . "Inspirado en la pianista y musicóloga Rosario Marciano, han sido galardonadas con esta presea la musicóloga Clara Meierovich por su investigación Mujeres en la composición musical de México y la italiana Patricia Adkins, directora de Fundacion Donne in musica y autora del libro Mujeres en la música" . "Inspired by the pianist and musicologist Rosario Marciano, musicologist Clara Meierovich has been awarded this award thanks to her research 'Mujeres en la composición musical de México' (Women musical composers of Mexico), and the Italian Patricia Adkins, director of Donne in Musica Foundation and author of the book 'Mujeres en la Música' (Women in Music).".
  6. Web site: Patricia Adkins-Chiti RIP . . Musicwoman Radio, Magazines, and Members . 13 June 2018 . en . 13 June 2018.
  7. Web site: donneinmusica.org Website (English) . www.donneinmusica.org . 9 November 2018 .
  8. Web site: donneinmusica.org Website (Italian) . www.donneinmusica.org . 1 January 2018 .
  9. Web site: LA FONDAZIONE ADKINS CHITI: DONNE IN MUSICA . informusic.it . 2018-01-01 . November 2001.
  10. Web site: News: fondazione-adkins-chiti-donne-in-musica . imc-cim.org (International Music Council) . 1 January 2018.
  11. Web site: Patricia Adkins Chiti: President of the Fondazione Adkins Chiti: Donne in Musica, Italy and Great Britain . we.expo2015.org . 2018-01-01.
  12. Web site: La Fondazione Adkins Chiti - Donne in Musica presenta il progetto WIMUST . cidim.it . 1 January 2018 . 2011.
  13. Web site: The 2nd European meeting for WIMUST . imc-cim.org . 1 January 2018.
  14. Web site: WIMUST final report . issuu.com . 9 November 2018 . 7 May 2014.
  15. Web site: 'Donne in musica' Published by BULZONI EDITORE, ROMA, 1982 . AbeBooks . BULZONI EDITORE . 1 January 2018 . en.
  16. Book: Almanacco delle virtuose, primedonne, compositrici e musiciste d'Italia: dall'A.D. 177 ai giorni nostri . 1991 . Istituto Geografico De Agostini . Novara . 9788840292328.
  17. Book: Una voce poco fa. Le musiche... . Garamond . Italy . abebooks.com . 1992 . 9788886180009 . 1 January 2018.
  18. Book: Italian Art Songs of the Romantic Era... . Alfred Music . abebooks.com . 1994 . Italy . 9780739002469 . 1 January 2018.
  19. Book: Donne in musica (Donne del terzo millennio) . Armando . abebooks.com . 1996 . 9788871445939 . 1 January 2018.
  20. Book: Songs and Duets of Garcia, Malibran and Viardot... . Alfred Pub Co . abebooks.com . 1997 . 9780882847863 . 1 January 2018.
  21. Web site: Recording: The Music of the Primadonnas Patricia Adkins Chiti, Gianpaolo Chiti . www.microsoft.com . 1 January 2018.
  22. Web site: Recording: Desolation and Despair (Italian Drawing Room Music of the Romantic Era) Patricia Adkins Chiti, Hiroko Sato . www.microsoft.com . 1 January 2018.

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