Fernando Viani

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Fernando Viani (born December 3, 1969 in Mendoza , Argentina ) is an Argentine concert pianist and piano teacher who works in Switzerland. He dealt intensively with Argentine composers (including Alberto Ginastera , whose entire piano and organ works he recorded), but has a repertoire of Latin American and European music. He attracted attention with his interdisciplinary work “Moving Images” and “Debussy Preludes”.

Life

He developed a passion for classical music and piano at an early age. In 1977 he learned to play the organ. During his high school years he was accepted as a young student in the piano class of Adela de Lavado (representative of the teaching method of Vincenzo Scaramuzza , teacher of Martha Argerich and Bruno Leonardo Gelber ) at the Cuyo National University of Music (UNC). In 1993 he made his diploma there with the highest possible number of points.

In the mid-1990s he moved to Germany to further improve his musical skills. This was followed by several postgraduate studies with Fany Solter , Dinorah Varsi and Sontraud Speidel as concert pianist, which Viani graduated with honors in 2003. Since 2012 he has been working intensively with Marisa Somma, a successor to Vincenzo Vitale, who accompanies him as a coach.

Fernando Viani also works as a soloist and concert pianist. He has performed several times with the Argentine National Symphony Orchestra (most recently in 2016 in the Auditorium Centro Cultural Néstor Kirchner (CCK) for the 200th anniversary of Argentina) and other Argentine orchestras. In 2016 he played with the UCS and PUCRS symphony orchestras in Porto Alegre and Caxias do Sul, Brazil . From 1994 he regularly accompanied the singers Ingeborg Danz , Guillermo Anzorena and Alicia Borges in international appearances.

As a soloist he interpreted classical Latin American music. In addition to other stations, he toured India and Europe in 1997 and Europe and North America in 2001. A tour of Germany followed in 2006 with Alberto Ginastera's entire piano and organ works, which were recorded in 2007 (published by Naxos).

In 2009 he founded the interdisciplinary project “Moving Images” (premiere in 2009, Morat Institute, Freiburg, D), which is still performed today. Viani composed and played the music for specially painted watercolors. From this the Debussy project developed, in which Viani interpreted Debussy's 24 Preludes with animated watercolors.

In 2006 Viani built the Melvin Piano Trio, which existed until 2013. In changing line-ups he also appeared as a chamber musician at the chamber music festival “Vielsaitig” in Füssen (2003, 2004, 2005) or piano quintet, A. Dvorak, Melvin piano trio with Laurent Breuninger and guests in Lahr (2011).

Teaching

At the same time, Fernando Viani began teaching himself. From 1999 he taught several gifted piano classes (e.g. in Lahr). In 2006 he founded and directed the Melvin Music Academy for gifted children and young people. From 2000 he prepared students for national and international competitions: Jugend Musiziert, Violeta Dinescu, Münchner Klavierpodium, Ton-Künstler, Wolfgang Hoffmann, Béla Bartók, EPTA International Piano Competition, Namur / Belgium in all possible settings: solo, duo with singing / String and wind instruments, baroque ensemble, new music, etc. He has been teaching piano at the Bern Conservatory Music School since 2012 and in 2014 taught the master's degree in Latin American Classical Music in Mendoza. In 2011 and 2012 he was appointed to the jury of the “Jugend musiziert” competition in Germany.

Awards

  • 1993: 1st prize from the Center for Pianistic Research, Buenos Aires / Argentina
  • 1992: 1st prize of the UNC Symphonic Orchestra, Mendoza / Argentina
  • 1991: 1st prize from the “Lincoln” Foundation, Buenos Aires / Argentina
  • 1991: Award and gold medal in the "Alberto Williams" competition, Buenos Aires / Argentina

Radio & CD recordings

  • 05/08 CD recording: piano pieces by Liszt, Mendelssohn, Bach-Busoni, Chopin, Mousorgsky, etc.
  • 03/06 CD recording, label Naxos: Complete piano and organ works by A. Ginastera
  • 01/03 CD recording, label Podium: Niñerías by J. Turina
  • 11/01 Radio of the Musikhochschule Karlsruhe: Rigoletto paraphrase by F. Liszt
  • 11/00 Radio of the Musikhochschule Karlsruhe: Tangos by Astor Piazzolla and Luis Gianneo
  • 08/00 CD recording, label Marco Polo: Sonata No. 3, 6, Tango, among others by L. Gianneo
  • 07/99 CD recording, label Dorian: song cycles by C. Guastavino
  • 1995 CD recording, label Irco: Tierra linda by C. Guastavino; Tangos and two pieces by JJ Castro

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Fernando Viani. Retrieved September 14, 2017 (German).
  2. ↑ GINASTERA, A .: Complete Piano and Organ Music - 8.557911-12. Retrieved September 14, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Press release on Debussy project. November 16, 2016, accessed September 14, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Exhibition invitation . Retrieved September 14, 2017 .
  5. ^ Administrator: Melvin Piano Trio. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on September 15, 2017 ; accessed on September 14, 2017 (German). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / fernando-viani.com
  6. ^ Bern Conservatory Music School: Teachers . In: Music School Conservatory Bern. May 21, 2007 ( konsibern.ch [accessed on September 14, 2017]).
  7. ↑ 03/06
  8. ↑ 08/00
personal data
SURNAME Viani, Fernando
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Argentinian concert pianist and piano teacher
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd December 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Mendoza , Argentina