Armando ghidoni biography

  • An eclectic composer, his melodies reveal the sensitivity and tradition of "bel canto".
  • Of Italian origin, though French by adoption, Armando GHIDONI brings together in his music the spirits of both Italy and France.
  • Composer of Italian origin, Armando Ghidoni brings together in his music the spirits of both Italy and France.

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    Of Italian origin, though French by adoption, Armando GHIDONI brings together in his music the spirits of both Italy and France. In the songs of this eclectic composer one finds sensitivity and the bel canto tradition, while his harmonic writing evokes both an impressionism à la française and jazz rhythms, features that lend his works a unique and highly personal character. Honorary President of the Olivier Messiaen Music School in Nantes, Armando Ghidoni is intensely active as a composer, and his catalogue includes many instrumental scores that are regularly chosen as set pieces in leading national and international competitions, as well as chamber music, sacred music, incidental music and an opera that has been played throughout the world. His Badaluk-Concerto for wind quintet and his Adagio for flute and harp (or piano) received an Honorable Mention from the American National Flute Association. The 12th Picardy European Music Competition, devoted to the saxophone, h

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    Armando Ghidoni

    Armando Ghidoni, né Ghidoni enstaka 1959[1] à Trente (dans le Trentin-Haut-Adige), est un compositeur contemporain, alliant la musique classique et le jazz, italien d'origine mais Français d'adoption, édité depuis 1989 par les éditions Alphonse Leduc.

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    C'est au début des années 1990 qu'Armando Ghidoni sort de l'anonymat. Il participe au saxophone et à la flûte traversière, à de nombreux festivals de jazz, d'un côté comme de l'autre des Alpes.

    Durant cette période, il fera les pages culturelles et musicales de nombreux journaux régionaux et revues spécialisées.

    A l'affiche lors du stage international de jazz à Parthenay, près de Poitiers, du 8 au , aux côtés de John Lindberg, Eric Watson (en), Otis Grand ou Jean-Jacques Milteau, Armando Ghidoni se distingue par sa sensibilité à mi-chemin entre le classique et le jazz.

    Le Courrier de l'Ouest écrivait ainsi, le  : « Armando Ghidoni est, avant tout, un

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    Italian by ursprung but French by adoption, Armando Ghidoni brings together in his music the spirit of Italy and that of France. An eclectic composer, his melodies reveal the sensitivity and tradition of "bel canto". His harmonic writing evokes both French impressionism and the rhythms of jazz, giving his works a unique and very personal character. 

    Many of his compositions are considered to be reference material and are regularly required repertoire in the most important national and international competitions.   Armando Ghidoni's catalogue brings tillsammans some one hundred works - a symphony, an opera, scen music, sacred music, chamber music, performed in prestigious venues all over the world: USA, Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Russia, Korea, Carnegie Hall in New York, Opéra Bastille in Paris, "Semana Ghidoni" in Rio de Janeiro.  Programmed at the Opéra dem Vichy, his opera Minou et Gourmolon, an opera in two acts,

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