Oscar Bianchi


Oscar Bianchi is a Gaudeamus Laureate composer of Italian and Swiss citizenships. He is a recipient of several international prizes and honors. He is noted for his large scale works, in particular his cantata Matra for six voices and large ensemble and his opera ''Thanks to My Eyes.''

Biography

Oscar Bianchi began music studies at the age of 7 under the guidance of Gabriella Montalbetti. In his teenage years, he enrolled at the Milan Conservatory and studied composition with Adriano Guarnieri, Sandro Gorli, Umberto Rotondi and with Salvatore Sciarrino in Città di Castello. At the Milan Conservatory He also studied Choir music and choral conducting with Franco Monego and electronic music with Riccardo Sinigaglia and with at the Conservatorio Giovanni Battista Martini in Bologna. In 2003 Oscar Bianchi will eventually foster his education in composition with Fausto Romitelli at the Royaumont Abbey. In name of the friendship that the two composers had established since the early 2000 and after the loss of who was seemingly becoming a mentor, Oscar Bianchi dedicated his composition Mezzogiorno to the memory of Fausto Romitelli.

Catalog

His works are published by Universal Music Publishing Group

Large ensemble, orchestra

  • Orango, for ensemble and audience
  • Roar, for symphonic orchestra
  • Contingency, for ensemble
  • Exordium, for symphonic orchestra
  • Inventio, for symphonic orchestra
  • Celeste discontinuità, for cello concertante and string orchestra
  • Oneness, for clarinet, basset horn and orchestra
  • Permeability, for 19 instruments and electronics
  • Ajna Prelude, for orchestra
  • Vishudda Concerto, for ensemble
  • Anahata Concerto, for ensemble
  • Trasparente II, for ensemble
  • Aqba, nel soffio tuo dolce, for percussion ensemble
  • Mezzogiorno, for ensemble

Vocal and staged works

  • Sinatra in Agony, music-theatre
  • Circled Existence, for electric guitar and six voices
  • Partendo, for countertenor and ensemble
  • Here, for soprano and string orchestra
  • The Past, for 11 performers
  • Approve, for countertenor and 8 instruments
  • Fluente, for soprano, barytone and bagpipes
  • Sotto Vuoto, for female voice and percussion
  • Lullaby, for male voice and five musicians
  • Ante Litteram, for six voices a cappella
  • The Infinite Jest, for soprano, dancer and actress
  • Thanks to My Eyes, opera in one act, libretto and staging by
  • Matra, Cantata for vocal ensemble, instrumental ensemble and trio concertante
  • Primordia Rerum, for soprano and ensemble

Instrumental

  • Étude no 1, for piano
  • Senza, for recorder and violin
  • Antilope, for bass clarinet, cello and piano
  • Pathos of distance, string quartet no 2
  • Topologia delle passioni, for wind quintet
  • Alteritas, for bass clarinet
  • Reinforced Sympathy, for two ouds
  • Derogatory Magnifier, for oboe solo
  • Docile ascesa, for contrabass solo
  • De Profundis, for basset horn solo
  • Adesso, string quartet no 1
  • Schegge, for prepared piano
  • Gr…, for bass flute
  • Semplice, for violin
  • Zaffiro, for four instruments
  • Crepuscolo, for Paetzold contrabass recorder and electronics
  • De Rerum Natura, for flute and violin
  • ''Pathos of distance, string quartet no 2''

Awards

Selected discography

Collaborations