Andrea Corongiu

Andrea Corongiu (1991), a musician devoted to the original repertoire for solo guitar, obtained a degree from the Conservatorio Superior de Música “Rafael Orozco” in Cordoba, Spain, where he studied in the class of Javier Riba.

He attended the KASK Conservatorium of Ghent, in Belgium with Johann Fostier, participating in the Erasmus Program. Andrea attended lectures, master classes and courses of interpretation with Luigi Attademo, Angelo Gilardino and Rafael Aguirre, as well as composition courses with Francisco Quintero, Luis Moreno and others. As a soloist, he performed both original repertoire and monographic literature for solo guitar in several festivals and halls, in Italy, Spain and Belgium. He currently cooperates with the specialistic journal Quinte Parallele. The Rafael Orozco Conservatoire of Cordoba gave him a mention of honor for his distinguished results in the course Interpretation of classical guitar with a repertoire of twentieth-century composers, where he obtained the highest score. He won several competitions, among which the Mediterraneo International Competition (first prize), the Lucia Iurleo International Competition (first prize), the 25th Giulio Rospigliosi International Competition (second prize), Mirabello in musica competition (first prize) and Città di Barletta 29th Young Musicians International Competition (first prize).