Giuseppe Di Bianco

Giuseppe Di Bianco
Born Giuseppe Di Bianco
(1969-10-17) 17 October 1969
Naples, Italy
Alma mater Salerno University
Occupation Composer, pianist
Website www.giuseppedibianco.com

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

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 cun Laude and Honorable Mention in Foreign Languages and Modern Literatures, with a post Lauream Master at Rome University. His training includes piano studies with Pietro D’Amico, György Sándor, Alexandre Hintchev; compositional studies under Enrico Buondonno (pupil of L. Refice) and masterclasses at "Scuola di Musica di Fiesole" (Florence) and at Accademia Chigiana (Chigiana Musical Academy) of Siena with Giacomo Manzoni, Luis Andriessen, Peter Maxwell Davies, Louis De Pablo; analysis seminars with Jean - Jacques Nattiez, Janet Schmalfeldt (Tufts University, MA).

Artistic activity

Active as a pianist, teacher and composer, with a particular interest in choral composition, Giuseppe Di Bianco has gained international recognition winning first prizes in many composition competitions: VIII International “Amadeus" Choral Composition Competition (Badajoz, Spain, 2014); V International “Choir Laboratory, XXI Century” Competition, (St. Petersburg, RUS, 2012); XI “A.C.P.” National Choral Composition Competition, Regione Piemonte (IT), 2012 , “A.R.C.C. Award” “La canzone napoletana in polifonia” (IT), 2009; International Choral Award “José Ribeiro de Sousa (Alqueidão da Sierra, Portugal), 2008; XI International Composition Award by Federcoritrentino (Trento), 2001, etc.

In 2005 his mottetto "In Laude" was finalist at the International Composition Award “C. A. Seghizzi”(Gorizia, Italy) and chosen to be a compulsory piece for choirs in the "contemporary section". In 2008, in Naples, he was awarded the “Franco Caracciolo” National Prize for the best choral sacred composition based on a luteran text. On the same year he was invited by Dr. Sue T. Klausmeyer (University of North Carolina, USA) as composer-in-residence at Chapel Hill Campus (NC, USA). In 2014 he was awarded the FENIARCO prize (Italian National Choral Federation) for his original choral score "Madonna de lu Camene", on neapolitan language text.

His choral music has been commissioned and included in the repertoire of Italian and foreign choral ensembles: Coro di Voci Bianche of “"Santa Cecilia” Academy, Rome, "Coro da Camera di Torino" (IT), “Academic choir of Aarhus” (DK), UPSA “University of the Philippines Singing Ambassadors” (Quezon city, Philippines), “San Josè State University Choraliers” (San Josè, CA, USA), “Cantari” vocal ensemble, Chapel Hill, NC, USA; “Quire of Voyces”, Santa Barbara, CA, USA; “NYME, "New York Miniaturist ensemble", etc. Among the various collaborations and première entrusted to international solists and conductors: Charlene Archibeque, R. Paul Crabb, Mario Caroli, Eric Carlson, T. J. Harper, Sue T. Klausmeyer, Nathan Kreitzer, Ed Manguiat, Uffe Most, Terry Rhodes, Alessandro Ruo Rui, Mattia Sanguineti, Mauro Squillante, Dario Tabbia, Sante Tursi, Jonathan Talberg, Ciro Visco). His choral music has been performed in Italy and abroad (the Vatican City, France, Denmark, Latvia, Netherlands, Spain, Portugal, Philippines, URSS and United States) including important premieres and venues (the mottetto "Angele Dei" had its italian première in Rome at St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City, 2010) and included as part of international choral festivals, such as the 44th Competition "C. A. Seghizzi" of Gorizia and 60th International "Guido D'Arezzo" Choral Festival", Arezzo, 2012; the International Choral Festival of Saint - Petersburg (RU). He is also active as a pianist, with particular regard to the chamber music repertoire, performing in important festivals and venues organized by accredited musical associations: Ravello Concert Society, Concerti dell’Università di Roma 3, Roma; Concerts at “Chiostro del Paradiso” of Amalfi; “Santa Sofia” Music Festival of Benevento; I Giovedì musicali di S. Rosa, Conca dei Marini; Estate musicale sorrentina, Sorrento, Concerti a Villa Guariglia, Vietri sul Mare; Teatro “G. Verdi”, Salerno; Teatro Tasso, Sorrento; Teatro Comunale of Carpi (Mo), Auditorium “Oscar Niemeyer” of Ravello, Festival Teatro de’ Barbuti, Salerno, etc).

In 2009 he founded the "Limen" chamber trio (piano, flute and voice), aimed at enhancing and spreading rare repertoires and specific monographs. His choral compositions are published in Italy by Federcoritrentino and Feniarco Ed. (choral anthology "Melos 3" and “Voci & Tradizione”- Piemonte) and abroad by “Kompositor Publishing House” (St. Petersburg, RU). In 2013 his composition "Kublai" was chosen for the "Invisible Cities Project", an international composition project, freely inspired to Italo Calvino's book. The project includes works from composers from all over the world (Carlo Domeniconi, Victor Kioulaphides, Alexey Larin, etc.) He has lectured on musicologic topics (“Musica poetica by Joachim Burmeister” at Fondazione Menna of Salerno, 1998; “Linguaggi, invention, percorsi critici tra tradizione e contemporaneità” at 36th European Conference on Musical Education and Choral music in Gorizia (2005) and at the University of Salerno (“The new research of Melopoiesis”, 2007). He currently lives and works in Maiori, on the enchanting Coast of Amalfi (IT), collaborating into several projects including music, literature and theatre.

Awards and special Honors

Honorable mention / Special honors


Commissions

Works (selection)

Choral works (original compositions)

Choral arrangements

- Quanno nascette ninno (SATB, piano)
- Tu scendi dalle stelle (SATB, piano)
- Stille nacht (F. Gruber) - SATB or TTBB and piano
- White Christmas (I. Berlin) - SATB or TTBB and piano; S,T, wind quintet
- He never said a mumblin’ word (SATB)
- Wade in de water (soprano, SATB)
- Cantata a fronne ‘e limone (SAT)
- Cicerenella (SSATB)
- La ballata della trasportatrice a spalla (SATB)
- La fiera de mast’Andrea (SATB divisi), 1st prize, II “A.R.C.C. Award”, “La canzone napoletana in polifonia” (ITA), 2008
- La scarpetta (SATB), 1st prize, XI “A.C.P.” National Choral Composition Competition, Regione Piemonte (ITA), Torino 2012
- Lu cardillo (SATB)
- Luna nova (SATB), 2nd prize (1st not assigned), III “A.R.C.C. Award”, “La canzone napoletana in polifonia” (ITA), 2010
- ‘O Marenariello (SATB divisi), 2nd prize (1st not assigned), III “A.R.C.C. Award”, “La canzone napoletana in polifonia” (ITA), 2010
- Palummella (SATB), 2010
- Ritornello delle lavandare del Vomero (SAT / SSA), 1993

Chamber music

- trascrizione per quintetto di fiati (2003)

Songs

- Nacht
- Bitte
- Sensation
- Marine
- Tête de faune

Essays

Bibliography

External links

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