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Giancarlo Angioni's Blog

 

February 2008

Bio

 

An Italian born in Belgium. His parents had emigrated from Sardinia, Italy to Belgium in hopes of a better life for their children. Giancarlo began on his journey to a grand passion with music at the tender age of three. His passion was fueled by his father whom had at the time been a part of an aspiring 1960’s Italian Rock n’ Roll band. While their dreams had never panned out Giancarlo never gave up hope nor his love of music. With an early start he was enrolled in a school of music. The Academie de Musique of Courcelles. He was among the youngest of students attending, being the mere age of five. His lessons were tailored to classical guitar. It was here that Giancarlo would meet his mentor of ten years. Fredy Pauwels, a well noted musician, in Belgium. At the age of twelve Giancarlo began to recieve much appreciated attention. This attention came from critics, even the Belgian government had taken notice of this young mans, undeniable talent. He was awarded with many different things among the highest, a gold medal from the Belgian government. This was for having graduated at the top of the entire student body, from the Academie de Musique of Courcelles. At the age of sixteen Giancarlo had been honored with an invitation to preform with the Chamber Orchestra Lieqe (Belgium) Concerto Di L. Boccherini. This was to be preformed at the National Theatere in front of an audience of 1050 people. The tickets had been sold out within three weeks of the concert. At the age of seventeen Giancarlo was preparing for his first international competition of Reine Fabiola, the queen of Belgium. The judges were comprised of highly notorious names among them: Manuel Barrueco, Narciso Yepes, Rafael Ituri and many more. In the same year Giancarlo had graduated from the university of music in Belgium Mons. At the young age of eighteen Giancarlo had preformed the famous Concierto d’ Aranjuez for guitar and orchestra. Composed by Joaquin Rodrigo. This was a sold out concert preformed again at the National Theatre with yet another full house. On the television side of things Giancarlo has been seen on televisions in Belgium, Luxembourg, Italy, France, and Mexico. Since then Giancarlo has preformed at various Theaters as well as venues all over the world. To list a few countries: France, Italy, Belgium, Spain, Germany, Mexico, USA, etc. Locally, Giancarlo had preformed for the Dallas Society, at the age of twenty-two. In his career Giancarlo has released four albums in different countries. The albums were: Les Romances De Giancarlo (1992), La Rhumba(1994), Forever (2003), and recently self titled Giancarlo Angioni (2007).

 
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