Elisabetta Brusa

Elisabetta Olga Laura Brusa (born 3 April 1954) is an Italian/British composer. Biography Early life and education Elisabetta Brusa was born in Milan in 1954. She began composing pieces for piano at age five, and during her childhood wrote 32 works, including a string quartet. She graduated from the Milan Conservatory in 1980, where she studied with Bruno Bettinelli and Azio Corghi. She took summer courses in Dartington, England with Sir Peter Maxwell Davies from 1978-1985 and studied privately with Hans Keller in London. Brusa married conductor Gilberto Serembe in 1997. Her music has been performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Ulster Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, RSNO Royal Scottish National Orchestra, CBC Vancouver Orchestra, State Hermitage Orchestra, St. Petersburg Symphony Orchestra, Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra, The Women’s Philharmonic http://www.wophil.org/wphilrep/ of San Francisco, to name just a few. Submissions must be tonal in nature, and applicants must be under the age of thirty. Awardees * 2024: Güray Kapucu, Bird in a Cage * 2025: Asadbek Turgunov, Maqom Simfoniya