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Gabriel Bianco, winner of the XXVIII Andrs Segovia International Guitar Competition

will perform in the next International Festival of Music and Dance of Granada, on the24th of June in la La Casa de los Pisa at 8.30 p.m.

Although in previous editions of the International Festival of Music and Dance of

Granada other guitarists who have competed in the Andrs Segovia guitar competition,such as M Esther Guzmn, have performed due to their high qualification score,

Gabriel Bianco is the first guitarist who is to take part in Granadas Festival as a result

of winning the Andrs Segovia competition. For the first time, Gabriel Biancos recital

will be included in Granadas Festival.

Born in Paris in 1988 into a family of musicians, Gabriel Bianco started playing theguitar when he was just five years old. A few years later he began his studies in Paris

with Ramn de Herrera at the Conservatoire National de Rgion, and concluded hisinstruction at the Conservatoire Suprieur de Paris in 2008, where he received the

highest performance distinction under the teaching of Olivier Chassain.

Mr. Bianco will perform in the Festival of Granada not onlyas a result of winning first

prize at Andrs Segovia, but also for winning eight prizes in other international

competitions in Europe including in Vienna (Austria), Tychy (Poland), and Koblenz

(Germany), as well as the Guitar Foundation of America Competition (GFA). He has

performed as a solo artist in recitals on main stages all around the world (Moscow,Beijing, Bucharest, So Paulo, Poznan, etc.)

For the Festival of Music and Dance, Mr. Bianco has chosen an attractive and varied

program which will include, Fantasa que contrahaze la harpaen la manera de

Ludovico, the tenth fantasy of the first of the Tres libros de msica en cifra para

vihuela, published in Seville in 1546 by Alonso Mudarra (c. 1510-1580). (Mudarra

belonged to the Golden Age of Spanish music in the sixteenth century, and together

with the vihuelists Luis de Miln, Enrque de Valderrbano, Esteban Daza, Diego

Pisador, Miguel de Fuenllana and Luis de Narvaz from Granada, they contributed to

the birth and proliferation of instrumental music.) This piece of music pays homage tothe vihuela, a precursor of the guitar. The vihuela and the guitar are representative of the

sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, respectively.

From the sixteenth century, Mr. Bianco will then transport the Festival audience to the

romantic virtuosity of the nineteenth century, with the renowned piece, Fantaisie

dramatique, op. 31, with its two parts Le Dpart and Le Retour, composed by theFrench guitarist Napolen Coste (1805-1883). Coste, a disciple of our Fernando Sor,

edited and republished, after Sor passed away, Sors original method for guitar,

Mthode Complte pour la Guitarre. Le Dpart was composed in 1856, the same year

in which Coste took part in the guitar contest sponsored by the Russian aristocrat,Nicolai Makaroff, where he placed 2nd among the 31 composer-contestants.

After interpreting Coste, Mr. Bianco will then run the clock back to the difficult yetbeautiful,Sonata BWV 998 by J. S. Bach (1685-1750). This piece, with its three

movements Praeludium, Fuge, and Allegro, is one of the six pieces for the lute (3suites, this sonata, a prelude and a fugue) designated with the numbers 995 to 1000 from

the Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis (catalog in German with Bachs pieces, known as BWV).

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The recital will conclude with the virtuoso Grande Sonate pour guitarre in A major

composed by the famous Italian violinist, violist, guitarist, and composer, NiccoloPaganini (1782-1840), with its three movements, Allegro risoluto, Romanze, and

Andantino Variato. Both the first and the last movements are especially risky due tothe complexity of the required techniques, which are characteristic of the inspiration and

virtuosity great, though eccentric, violinist and guitarist.