Vicente Bianchi

Vicente Bianchi (2012)

Vicente Bianchi Alarcón (born January 27, 1920 in Santiago de Chile ; † September 24, 2018 ) was a Chilean pianist , composer , conductor of orchestras and choirs and radio host.

Life

Bianchi received his first musical education at the age of six from Daniel Julio Julio and Olga Aguila Fraga . He attended the Liceo Manuel de Salas and in 1931 became a student at the Conservatorio Nacional de Música of the Universidad de Chile . Here he studied music theory with Elcira Castrillón de Mutchler , harmony with Flora Vial del Guerra , counterpoint with Samuel Negrete and later orchestral direction with Teodoro Fuchs .

As early as 1930 he gained his first radio experience as the director of a children's orchestra at Radio Otto Becar . He undertook several concert tours with the orchestra between 1932 and 1937. In 1940 he founded a professional string octet at the Radio Sociedad Nacional de Agricultura . In the same year he appeared as a piano accompanist for the Italian tenor Tito Schippa . From 1943 to 1949 he directed an orchestra at Radio El Mundo in Buenos Aires. In 1949 he founded an orchestra consisting of thirty professors at Radio Minería . In 1951 he came to Radio El Sol in Lima, where he directed a large symphony orchestra for four years. After his return to Chile he worked again for Radio Minería and from 1960 for Radio Cooperativa Vitalicia .

In 1955 Bianchi set Pablo Neruda's Canto General to music , followed by works such as Tonadas de Manuel Rodríguez (1955), Romance de los Carrera (1956) and Canto a Bernardo O'Higgins (1956). At the request of his friend Francisco Flores del Campo, he took part in the instrumentation of his La Pérgola de las flores (based on Isidora Aguirre ). In addition to songs and piano pieces, Bianchi's 150 works also include orchestral works such as the Danzas regionales de Chile and religious works such as the Misa a la Chilena (1964), the Misa de la Cruz del Sur (1970) and the Te Deum ecuménico (1969– 2000). As a pianist and conductor, he has worked with musicians such as Rayen Quitral , Clara Stock , Nora López , Angélica Montes , Ramón Vinay , Verónica Villarroel , Pedro Vargas , Lucho Gatica , Leo Marini and Carmen Sevilla .

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SURNAME	Bianchi, Vicente
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Bianchi Alarcón, Vicente (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Chilean pianist, composer and conductor
DATE OF BIRTH	January 27, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH	Santiago de Chile
DATE OF DEATH	September 24, 2018