Giuseppe Di Bianco

A native of Naples, Italy, Giuseppe Di Bianco holds degrees in Piano, Composition, Choral conducting, Vocal Chamber Music and Music Teaching from the Conservatories of Salerno, “S. Pietro a Majella” of Naples and “S. Cecilia” of Rome, graduating with full marks and honorable mention in Foreign Languages and Modern Literatures at University of Salerno and with a post-lauream master at Rome University. His training includes piano studies and masterclass with Pietro D’Amico, György Sándor, Walter Moore; composition studies and analysis seminars at Music School of Fiesole (Florence) and Accademia Chigiana (Siena) with Giacomo Manzoni, Luis De Pablo, Peter Maxwell Davies, Louis Andriessen, Salvatore Sciarrino, Carl Schachter and Jean-Jacques Nattiez.

Active as a pianist, composer and teacher with a particular interest in choral composition, Di Bianco has gained international recognition winning more than a dozen National and International composition competitions: I prizes at the “ACP” National Choral Composition Competition”, both 2010 and 2010 ed.; “A.R.C.C. Award” “La canzone napoletana in polifonia”, 2009; International Award “José Ribeiro de Sousa”- Alqueidão da Sierra (POR), 2008; Choral Composition Contest “Soldanella” of Brentonico (Trento), 2007; XI International Composition Award of Trento, 2001; II prizes at T.I.M.“International Music Tournament” Award, Paris/Rome; Vittorio Veneto International Choral Composition Competition, 2008; X International Prize of Cortemilia (Cuneo), 2002; finalist at II International Choral Award “C.A. Seghizzi” (Gorizia, 2005) and at National Prize “Helmut Laberer” (Conservatorio “S. Cecilia” of Rome (2003); Honorable mention at “7th Aliénor International Composition Competition, Salem, North Carolina, USA – 2007. In 2008, in Naples, he was awarded the national Prize “Franco Caracciolo” for the best choral composition based on a luteran text. On the same year he was invited as composer-in-residence at Chapel Hill Campus (NC, USA).

His choral music has been performed worldwide (Italy, Denmark, Portugal, Hungary, Philippines and United States) including important world premieres (the mottetto Angele Dei, for S.A.T.B. divisi voices, had its italian première in Rome at St. Peter, Vatican City, 2010). Top level choral performances have come from the 44th International Choral Contest “Seghizzi” (Gorizia) and Béla Bartòk International Choral Festival (Debrecen, Hungary) and InCantato Summer Festival 2008/Italy, such as Academic choir of Aarhus (DAN), University of the Philippines singing Ambassadors (Quezon city, PHIL.) and San Josè State University Choraliers, as well as from the Quire of Voyces, (Santa Barbara, CA) Carolina International Chorale and ensemble Cantari (Chapel Hill, NC, USA), by renowned musicians (Charlene Archibeque, Eric Carlson, flutist Mario Caroli, Ed Manguiat, Uffe Most, Nathan Kreitzer, ecc). 

In addition to choral music, Di Bianco composes chamber music and music for stage (performed at Sala Accademica di Santa Cecilia, Rome; Sala Stradivari, “Fiera Internazionale della liuteria 2007” of Cremona; “Ravello Concert Society”, URTIcanti Bari Festival - 2008, Rassegna Internazionale “Alfeo Gigli”– Bologna, Teatro Comunale of Carpi (Mo), Museum of the Moving Image, NY, ecc.). From 1992 till 2002 he has been conducting “Ars Nova” Choir of Maiori (Sa) and currently serves as Musical Director of Cultural Association “Art Academy” of Carpi (Modena). He has lectured on musical topics (“Musica poetica by Joachim Burmeister” at Fondazione Menna of Salerno, 1998; “Linguaggi, invention, percorsi critici tra tradizione e contemporaneità” at the 36th European Conference on Musical Education and Choral music in Gorizia (2005) and “The new research of melopoiesis” – University of Salerno, 2007; “The Italian music at the time of the Risorgimento”, 2011). Some choral works are published in Italy by Feniarco Ed. (project “Melos III”) and Federcoritrentino. He currently lives and work in Maiori, in the coast of Amalfi (ITA), collaborating into several projects including music, literature and theatre.