Giuseppe Di Bianco

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Giuseppe Di Bianco
Born
Giuseppe Di Bianco

(1969-10-17) 17 October 1969 (age 54)
Naples, Italy
Alma mater Salerno University
Occupation(s)Composer, pianist
Website www.giuseppedibianco.com

Giuseppe Di Bianco (born 17 October 1969) is an Italian composer, conductor, arranger, mainly of choral music.

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Biography

Education

Giuseppe Di Bianco holds degrees in Piano, Composition, Choral conducting and Music Didactics from the Conservatories of Salerno and San Pietro a Majella of Naples, graduating Summa cum Laude and Honorable Mention in Foreign Languages and Modern Literature, with a post Lauream Master at Rome University. The meetings with Pietro D'Amico and the Hungarian pianist György Sándor, a student of Béla Bartók and Zoltán Kodály, are fundamental for his artistic training. Enrico Buondonno, direct heir of the didactic tradition of Licinio Refice, Raffaele Casimiri, Achille Longo started him to study the composition. He will be deeply bound by a profound educational and human relationship, [1] which lasted over two decades. His training also includes advanced courses and workshops at Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena and Scuola di Musica of Fiesole (Florence) with Giacomo Manzoni, Salvatore Sciarrino, Louis Andriessen, Peter Maxwell Davies, Luis de Pablo; analysis seminars with Jean - Jacques Nattiez, Janet Schmalfeldt (Tufts University, MA). [2]

Artistic activity

Active as a pianist, teacher, and composer, with the main interest in choral composition, published by Feniarco Ed. (IT), [3] [4] Federcoritrentino e «Композитор • Санкт-Петербург» Publishing House [5] and performed in Italy, Europe (France, Switzerland, Denmark, Latvia, Slovenia, Netherlands, Germany, Spain, Portugal), USA, Russia, Japan, Philippine, he has received numerous awards in composition competitions, obtaining the first prize in the International Composition Competition "Cesare Augusto Seghizzi" of Gorizia in 2016, and presiding over the jury of the composition Trophy for the 2017 edition. [6] His choral works have been commissioned and performed by international ensembles, including "The University of the Philippines Singing Ambassadors", [7] Zürcher Sing-Akademie (CH), Vocaal Ensemble MUSA (NL), Coro Giovanile Italiano, Coro da Camera di Torino, [8] Academic Mixed Choir "Vasilyev" (Russia), [9] Coro di Voci Bianche of Santa Cecilia Academy, Rome, "Academic choir of Aarhus" (DK), "E STuudio Noortenkor" (EST), "San Josè State University Choraliers" (San Josè, CA, USA).

His choral music has been performed and included as part of the main international music festivals: National and International Choral Competition "Guido d'Arezzo”, International Choral Competition “Cesare Augusto Seghizzi" of Gorizia, Vittorio Veneto National Choral Competition, International Choral Competition "J. Gallus" of Maribor (Slovenia), International "Cracovia Cantans" Festival (PO), "Rainbow Petersburg Choir Festival", St. Petersburg (RU), Festival MITO SettembreMusica(IT), Salerno Festival, Fondazione Pietà dei Turchini|Fondazione "Pietà dei Turchini" of Naples; URTIcanti Contemporary Music Festival, Bari; International Milan Expo 2016, International Festival della Liuteria of Cremona, Rassegna concertistica di Villa Rufolo, Ravello. In 2021 his piece "Aetherium (Itinerarium Dantis in Deum)", broadcast by Radio Rai 3 Suite, was officially presented as part of the "Leading Voices" international symposium in Utrecht, organized by Europa Cantat.

He was invited as guest composer at North Carolina University (Chapel Hill Campus, NC, USA) [10] and at "Fine Arts and Music University" of Aichi, Japan.

In 2014 he was selected among the composers included in the "Invisible Cities Project", an international compositional project inspired by the novel of the same name by Italo Calvino and aimed at transposing the text "Invisible Cities" into music, commissioned to a group of composers, [11] including Carlo Domeniconi, Victor Koulaphides, Alexey Larin, Joe Schittino.

He was officially invited to join the "FENIARCO" Italian projects "Officina Corale del Futuro", [12] La Musica di Dante, i cori giovanili italiani alla corte del sommo Poeta (2021); D'Annunzio, maestro e musico (ARCA, 2023).

Some of his compositions have been recorded by "Coro da Camera di Torino" (CDs "Made in Italy", 2015; "Passio Domini Jesu Christi", 2018), [13] and included in the online PROJECT : ENCORE™ [14] of Schola Cantorum on Hudson.

He is a member of the FENIARCO National Artistic Commission; Artistic Director of "Franco Di Franco" Musical Competition and "Wilhelm Kempff" piano Award of Positano, in the enchanting Coast of Amalfi (IT).

Awards and special honors

Source: [15]

Awards

  • 2019 - International Award "CostieraArte 2019", for his musical activities - City of Maiori, Coast of Amalfi
  • 2016 - Winner of the 13th International Trophy of Choral Composition "Cesare Augusto Seghizzi" (Gorizia, Italy)
  • 2014 - 1st prize, VIII International "Contemporalia" Choral Composition Competition (Badajoz, Spain)
  • 2012 - 1st prize, V International "Choir Laboratory, XXI Century" Competition (St. Petersburg, Russia)
  • 2012 - 1st prize, XI "A.C.P." National Choral Composition Competition, Regione Piemonte (Italy)
  • 2010 - 1st prize, X "A.C.P." National Choral Composition Competition (Regione Piemonte, Italy)
  • 2010 - 2nd prize (1st not assigned), III National Choral Composition Prize "A.R.C.C.", La canzone napoletana in polifonia (Italy)
  • 2008 - 1st prize, International Choral Award "José Ribeiro de Sousa" (Alqueidão da Sierra, Portugal)
  • 2008 - 1st Prize, Opera Omnia Choral Prize, Fiumefreddo di Sicilia (Catania, Italy)
  • 2008 - 1st prize, IX "A.C.P." National Choral Composition Competition, Regione Piemonte (Italy)
  • 2008 - 1st prize, II National Choral Composition Prize "A.R.C.C.", La canzone napoletana in polifonia (Italy)
  • 2008 - 2nd prize (1st not assigned), 2nd International Choral Composition Competition (Vittorio Veneto, TV, Italy)
  • 2008 - 2nd prize, "F.M. Napolitano" Composition National Award 2007 (Naples, Italy)
  • 2007 - 1st prize, Choral Composition Contest "Soldanella" of Brentonico (Trento, Italy), 2007
  • 2007 - 2nd prize (1st not assigned), National Composition Prize "Franco Michele Napolitano" (Naples, Italy)
  • 2005 - Finalist, II International Competition for Choral Composition "C.A. Seghizzi" (Gorizia, Italy)
  • 2004 - 2nd prize, T.I.M. International Music Tournament Award (Rome / Paris, 2004)
  • 2003 - 3rd prize, International Drum open competition (Fermo, AN, Italy)
  • 2003 - Finalist, "Helmut Laberer" Composition Prize, Conservatory of Santa Cecilia (Rome, Italy)
  • 2002 - 2nd prize, X International Prize of Cortemilia (Cuneo, Italy)
  • 2001 - 1st prize ex-aequo, XI International Choral Composition Award by Federcoritrentino (Trento, Italy)

Honorable mentions and special honors

  • 2013 - FENIARCO Special Award (Italian National Choral Federation) for an original choral work on Neapolitan language (Naples, Italy)
  • 2008 - "Franco Caracciolo" Award (audience prize), VIII Sacred Choral Composition Prize on a Lutheran text (Naples, Italy)
  • 2008 - Honorable Mention, International Choral Award "José Ribeiro de Sousa" (Alqueidão da Sierra, Portugal)
  • 2007 - Honorable Mention, 7th Aliénor International Harpsichord Composition Competition, Salem College (Winston-Salem / NC, USA)
  • 2002 - Honorable Mention (no prize assigned), National Choral Composition Prize "P. Righele" (Malo, VC, Italy)

Choral Compositions (selection)

Source: [16]

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