Gabriel Bianco
Gabriel Bianco is considered one of today's finest classical guitarists. Bianco is a first prize winner of several international competitions; he has performed in around fifty countries on all continents and has recorded eight albums.
Gabriel Bianco was Classical Revelation of ADAMI in 2011. He won first prizes in the competitions of Sernancelhe (Portugal, 2005), Île de Ré (France, 2006), Gitarre Forum Wien (Austria, 2006), "Silesian Autumn" in Tychy (Poland, 2006), "Hubert Käppel" in Koblenz (Germany, 2007), Barbezieux (France, 2007), Guitar Foundation of America (United States, 2008), "Fundación Gredos San Diego" in Madrid (Spain, 2011), "Andrés Segovia" in Almuñecar (Spain, 2012). Gabriel Bianco has performed in prestigious venues such as the Théâtre du Châtelet, La Folle Journée in Nantes, the Radio-France Occitanie Festival, the International Guitar Festival of Paris, the Tchaikovsky Hall in Moscow, the Herbst Theater in San Francisco, the Luis Arango Auditorium in Bogota, the Central Conservatory of Beijing, the Musashino Art Center and the Yamaha Hall in Tokyo, the Kiev Philharmonic, the Zurich Opera, and the Lausanne Opera.
Gabriel Biancois passionate about chamber music and has been a member of the Quatuor Eclisses since its creation in 2012, for which he has created numerous arrangements and recorded four albums with Ad Vitam Records. He also performs with Marina Viotti (mezzo-soprano), always with his arrangements of classical and popular music, with an album release scheduled for April 2023 with Aparté. He has also recorded an album as a duo with oboist Michaela Hrabankova for Ad Vitam Records. He occasionally shares the stage with Edgar Moreau (cello), Maïté Louis (violin), Mathilde Caldérini (flute), Lola Descours (bassoon), Kévin Amiel (tenor), and Romuald Grimbert-Barré (violin). Gabriel Bianco has recorded two solo albums, the first with Naxos featuring a program of Bach, Mertz, and Koshkin, and the second with Ad Vitam Records featuring Da Milano, Scarlatti, Regondi, and Paganini. He is very active in contemporary music creation, Gabriel has already collaborated with Atanas Ourkouzounov, Sergio Assad, Karol Beffa, Orestis Kalampalikis, Matthieu Stefanelli, Jules Matton, Camille Pépin, Inès Halimi, and Thomas Viloteau on the creation of new works for solo guitar or chamber music.
Born in 1988 in Paris, Gabriel Bianco began playing the guitar with his father. In 1997, he entered the CNR (Conservatoire National de Région) of Paris in the class of Ramon de Herrera and studied music until his baccalaureate. In 2005, he was unanimously admitted to the CNSMDP (Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris) in the class of Olivier Chassain. He received his guitar diploma in 2008 and his chamber music diploma in 2015, each time with the highest honors. He also studied under Judicaël Perroy. Since 2018, Gabriel Bianco has been a Senior Docent at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, where he teaches individual guitar lessons and heads the classical guitar department. He plays exclusively on Savarez strings.