Giuseppe Di Bianco (Naples, Italy) is an Italian composer, pianist, and educator, internationally recognised for his contribution to contemporary choral music. He earned a Master’s degree in Composition from the Conservatory of Naples, as well as Master’s degrees in Piano, Choral Conducting, and Music Education from the Conservatories of Salerno. He also graduated summa cum laude with distinction in Foreign Languages and Modern Literature and completed a post-lauream degree at the University of Rome.

       His musical training includes piano studies with Pietro D’Amico, György Sándor, and Alexander Hintchev, and composition studies with Enrico Buondonno, a pupil of Licinio Refice. He further pursued advanced courses and workshops at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena and the Scuola di Musica di Fiesole, working with composers such as Giacomo Manzoni, Louis Andriessen, Peter Maxwell Davies, and Luis de Pablo. He also attended analysis seminars with Jean-Jacques Nattiez and Janet Schmalfeldt at Tufts University (MA, USA).

       Active as a composer, pianist, and educator, with a particular focus on choral composition, Di Bianco has received numerous international awards, including first prizes at the XIII International Choral Composition Competition “C. A. Seghizzi” (Italy, 2016), the V International Competition “Choir Laboratory, XXI Century” (St. Petersburg, Russia, 2012), the VIII International “Amadeus” Choral Composition Competition (Badajoz, Spain, 2014), and the XI National Choral Composition Competition “A.C.P.” (Italy, 2012). In 2008, he was awarded the “Franco Caracciolo” National Prize in Naples for the best sacred choral composition based on a Lutheran text.

      His music has been performed extensively in Italy and internationally, including in Vatican City, France, Austria, Germany, Spain, Denmark, Latvia, the Netherlands, Slovenia, Poland, the Philippines, Russia, and the United States, and has been featured in major festivals and competitions such as the International Choral Competition “Guido d’Arezzo,” the “C. A. Seghizzi” International Choral Competition (Gorizia), the International Choral Competition “J. Gallus” (Maribor), the Rainbow International Choir Festival (St. Petersburg), the International Kraków Choir Festival Cracovia Cantans, MITO Settembre Musica, the Milan International EXPO 2015, and the Osaka World EXPO 2025.

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        Di Bianco’s works have been commissioned and performed by numerous Italian and international ensembles, including the Coro di Voci Bianche of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia (Rome), Zürcher Sing-Akademie (Switzerland), Coro Giovanile Italiano and Coro da Camera di Torino (Italy), Academic Choir of Aarhus (Denmark), the University of the Philippines Singing Ambassadors (Quezon City), the Academic Mixed Choir “Vasilyeva” (Veliky Novgorod, Russia), the San José State University Choraliers (California, USA), and Quire of Voyces (CA, USA). 

        His choral works In laude and In pace were selected as compulsory pieces for the International Choral Composition Award “C. A. Seghizzi” (2004 and 2016) and for the “Fosco Corti” International Choral Conductors Competition in Turin (2021).

Alongside his compositional activity, Di Bianco has been invited as a guest artist and lecturer at international conferences and workshops, including those hosted by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Mozarteum University of Salzburg, and the Aichi University of the Arts (Japan), where several of his choral works have received their premieres.

      

         In addition to composing, Giuseppe has been the guest artist for numerous conferences and workshops, including the University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill Campus, NC, USA) and Fine Arts and Music University of Aichi (Japan), where some of his choral works have been premiered. 

       

    He has participated in major international artistic projects such as the Invisible Cities Project (2013), inspired by Italo Calvino’s Le città invisibili, and FENIARCO’s choral initiatives "Officina Corale del Futuro" (2018), La musica di Dante (2021), and D’Annunzio, maestro e musico (2023). In May 2025, his composition Aetherium was selected to represent Italy at the World EXPO 2025 in Osaka, within a project coordinated by Mozarteum University Salzburg and the Association Européenne des Conservatoires (AEC), under the artistic direction of Jörn Hinnerk Andresen.  

             

   Di Bianco has frequently lectured on musicology, choral music, ethnomusicology, and music education. Notable presentations include studies on Joachim Burmeister’s Musica poetica, contemporary analytical approaches to melopoiesis, and interdisciplinary research on myth and musical topography. In 2022, his work Aetherium, broadcast by Rai Radio 3 Suite, was presented and analysed by Petra Grassi at the Leading Voices international symposium in Utrecht, organised by Europa Cantat.

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     His choral compositions are published by FENIARCO Editions, Kompozitor Publishing House (St. Petersburg, RU), and through SMP Press, and have been recorded by the Coro da Camera di Torino in the albums Made in Italy (2015) and Passio Domini Nostri Jesu Christi (2018).

 

        Since 2020, Giuseppe Di Bianco has been a member of the National Artistic Commission of FENIARCO (Italian National Federation of Regional Choral Associations). He currently lives and works on the Amalfi Coast, where he serves as Artistic Director of the National Music Competition “Franco Di Franco” / “Wilhelm Kempff” Prize in Positano.

 

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