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GIUSEPPE DI BIANCO (Naples, Italy) holds degrees in Piano, Composition, Choral conducting and Music Didactics from the Conservatories of Salerno and "S. Pietro a Majella” of Naples, graduating Summa cum Laude and Honorable Mention in Foreign Languages and Modern Literatures, with a post Lauream Master at Rome University.
His training includes piano studies with György Sándor, Alexander Hintchev; composition studies under Enrico Buondonno (pupil of Licinio Refice) and masterclasses at "Scuola di Musica di Fiesole" (Florence) and at Accademia Chigiana of Siena with Giacomo Manzoni, Louis Andriessen, Peter Maxwell Davies, Luis de Pablo; analysis seminars with Jean - Jacques Nattiez, Janet Schmalfeldt (Tufts University, MA).
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:
13th International TROPHY OF CHORAL COMPOSITION "Seghizzi" of Gorizia, Italy (2016); 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, ACP 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 and 2015 his works "In Laude" and "In pace" were chosen at the International Composition Award “C. A. Seghizzi” (Gorizia, Italy) to be compulsory pieces for choirs in the "contemporary section" of the International Choral Singing Competition.
In 2008, in Naples, he was awarded the “Franco Caracciolo” National Prize for the best choral sacred composition based on a luteran text.
As guest composer in residence, he has been invited in the USA at Chapel Hill Campus (NC, USA, 2008) and on 2016 at "Fine Arts and Music University" of Aichi, Japan, where some choral works of his have been premiered.
His choral music has been commissioned and included in the repertoire of Italian and foreign choral ensembles: Coro di Voci Bianche of "Accademia di S. Cecilia”, Rome, "Coro da Camera di Torino" (IT), “Academic choir of Aarhus” (DK), "E STuudio Noortekoor" of Tarfu (EST), 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, etc.
His choral music has been performed in Italy and abroad (the Vatican City, France, Germany, Denmark, Latvia, Netherlands, Slovenia, Poland, Philippines, Russia and United States) including important premières (the mottetto Angele Dei had its italian première in Rome at St. Peter's Church, Vatican City, 2010) and included in International Festival ("MITO Settembre Musica" in Turin) and choral Competitions (International Competition "C. A. Seghizzi" of Gorizia; National and International "Guido D' Arezzo" Choral Festival", Arezzo; International Choral Competition "J. Gallus" - Maribor, Slovenia; Vittorio Veneto National Choral Contest, International Krakow Choir Festival "Cracovia Cantans" (P), St. Petersburg "Rainbow" International Choral Festival").
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.
In 2013 Di Bianco was chosen for the “Invisible Cities Project,” an international composition project inspired by Italo Ca |