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Vocal compositions

• "Agnus Dei" - per coro a 4 vv.mm. (1992);
• "Ave Maria" - per coro a 4 vv.m. (1996);
• "Laudate Dominum" - per coro a 5 vv.m. (2002);
• "As if the sea should part" - (testo di E.Dickinson) , per coro a 5vv.m. (2002);
• "The meeting at Peterloo"- per coro a cappella a 4vv.m (2002);
• "Sia lode alla pietra angolare"; canto liturgico d’offertorio per coro a 4 vv.m ed organo (2002);
• "Mistero della casa"- canti liturgico d’introito, per coro a 4 vv.m ,2 T.be, C.no, Tb.ne, organo- (2002);
• "In laude"- per coro a 5 vv.m. (2004);
• "Exultemus Domino" (Salmo VC)- per coro a 4 v.m e pianoforte; (2004)
• "Jazz in choir" - 3 arrangiamenti per ottetto a cappella ( 1999 -2000) ;
• "Pop in choir,Vol.I" - 5arrangiamenti (org. vv) per coro a cappella (2000);
• "Pop in choir,Vol. II" - 3 arrangiamenti (org. vv) per coro a cappella (2000);

Chamber compositions

• "Ave Maria" - per Soprano e pf; (1993)
• "Nacht", "Bitte" - due liriche per mezzo soprano e pf. ; testi di H.Hesse (1991)
• "Sensation", "Marine", "Tête de faune" - 3 liriche per soprano e pf.; testi di A.Rembaud (1994)
• "Mentis motus" - per pianoforte e tre percussioni (Xyl, Mar, Tp) - (1995); trascrizione per quintetto di fiati (2003)
• "Rabbunì"- musiche di scena per la sacra rappresentazione omonima - 13 scene per Solo (S), a 4 vv.pari femminili, cl.Sib, percussioni, e orchestra d’archi; (2000)
• "Wolfgang" remastered - ("pastiche" su temi mozartiani) - per Br. , Ott., Tb.ne e quartetto d’archi (2003)
• "Threnos"- per clarinetto basso (2004)

Orchestral compositions

• "Il Re David"- scene di oratorio per soli (Br,voce bianca), doppio coro ed orchestra (2002)
• "Mentis motus" - Trascrizione per Xyl solista ed orchestra (2003)
• "In between-ess" - per orchestra da camera (2004)
• "Trapezio vocalico" - per 8 voci e piccola orchestra (2004)

Giuseppe Di Bianco was born in Naples, Italy, in 1969. He has been studying piano (with Pietro D’Amico, György Sándor, Alexander Hintchev), composition, choral music and conducting, music teaching, receiving diplomas with full marks at Conservatoire “G. Martucci” in Salerno and “S. Pietro a Majella“ in Naples. He has got, also, a degree with full marks and honourable mention in “Foreign Languages and Modern Literatures” at University of Salerno.

He attended composition masterclasses and seminars with Giacomo Manzoni (Music School of Fiesole, Florence), Luis De Pablo, Salvatore Sciarrino, Peter Maxwell Davies.

As a composer, with his peculiar interest in choral composition, he has won national and international composition prizes: 1st prize at the XI International Composition Award of Trento (2001); 1st prize at the Choral Composition Contest “Soldanella” of Brentonico (Tn), 2007; 1st Prize and honourable mention at Internazional Award “José Ribeiro de Sousa” — Alqueidão da Sierra (Portugal), 2008; 2nd prize at the X International Prize of Cortemilia (Cn) (2002); 2nd Prize at "Premio di Composizione F. Napolitano", Naples 2007; 2nd prize at T.I.M. “International Music Tournament” Award, Paris/Rome; 2nd prize at Vittorio Veneto International Choral Composition Competition (2008); 3rd prize at the International “Drum open competition” of Fermo (Ancona) — 2003; finalist at II International “C.A. Seghizzi” (Gorizia, 2005); Finalist at the National Prize “Helmut Laberer” at Conservatorio “Santa Cecilia” in Rome (2003); Honorable mention at “7th Aliénor International Composition Competition, Salem, North Carolina, USA – 2007, etc.

His music has been performed, edited and broadcasted in Italy (Sala Accademica di Santa Cecilia, Roma; “Festival Internazionale della liuteria” of Cremona; “Ravello Concert Society”, “Chamber music on the Amalfi Coast”, 44th Choral International Contest “Seghizzi” (by Academic choir of Aarhaus” — DAN, University of the Philippines singing Ambassadors — Quezon city, PHIL and San Josè State University Choraliers — California, USA), National choral meeting “Corescant” — Sorrento, Rassegna Internazionale “Alfeo Gigli” – Bologna, Teatro Comunale — Carpi and Modena, InCantato International Summer Festival, Italy 2008 ecc.) and many European countries, (France, Portugal) as well as in USA (NYME, New York).

He has been also invited to hold lectures concerning musicological topics (“Musica Poetica by J. Burmeister” — “F.Menna” Foundation and University of Salerno, 1998; “Linguaggi, inventio, percorsi critici tra tradizione e contemporaneità”, 36th European Conference on Musical Education and Choral music, Gorizia, 2005; “The new research of melopoiesis” – University of Salerno, 2007, ecc). He is currently Musical Director of the Cultural Associations “Art Academy” of Carpi (Modena) and “Atellana” of Maiori, in the heart of the coast of Amalfi (ITA), where he currently lives, working and collaborating into several projects including music, literature and theatre.

[in Italian]

• http://www.scholaonhudson.org/angele_dei--giuseppe_di_bianco