Angelo Gilardino

Who is Angelo Gilardino?

Angelo Gilardino is an Italian composer, guitarist and musicologist.

During his concert career, from 1958 to 1981, he premiered hundreds of new works for the guitar. He taught at the Liceo Musicale G. B. Viotti in Vercelli from 1965 to 1981, and held a professorship at the Antonio Vivaldi Conservatory in Alessandria from 1981 to 2004. The Conservatory awarded him the Marengo Music Prize in 1998.

Gilardino has composed much music for solo guitar, as well as chamber music and concertos. His solo works include five volumes of Studi di virtuosità e di trascendenza, two numbered sonatas as well as several titled sonatas and sonatinas, two sets of variations, and Ikonostas for a guitar tuned in G. He has also written four works for guitar with guitar orchestra, seven concertos for guitar, some in combination with other instruments, and several duets.

From 1967 to 2006, Gilardino supervised the publication of hundreds of new guitar works by Edizioni Musicali Bèrben. He has also discovered the Variazioni by Ottorino Respighi and several works written for the guitarist Andrés Segovia by Cyril Scott, Pierre de Bréville, Lennox Berkeley and many others. He was artistic director of the Andrés Segovia Foundation of Linares from 1997 to 2005.