Giancarlo Cardini

Giancarlo Cardini. A pianist and composer, Cardini lives in Florence, where he first studied and later taught piano at the Conservatory “Cherubini”.

As a composer, he wrote chamber, vocal, symphonic, mixed-media and stage works. His ray of action encompasses, along with experimentalism, some encroachments in the field of “light” music (original dance-music, and very numerous piano transcriptions of twentieth-century songs from Italy, Brazil, Cuba and America, including works by Modugno, Bindi, Paoli, Tenco, Porter, Berlin, Bernstein, Bacharach, Jobim). As a pianist, he performed throughout Europe, in America, Japan, India, Egypt, Nepal, performing a repertoire mostly focusing on contemporary music, including many premieres. He cooperated with Cage, Feldman, Chiari, Bussotti, Castali, Clementi, Giani-Luporini, Luca Lombardi, Grillo, Daniele Lombardi, Mosconi and Zosi. He has also recorded many CDs, with works by his own and by others, including Satie, Cage, Bussotti, Castaldi, Clementi etc.
Worth mentioning are then three books: Bolle di sapone (Florence: Centro Di), gathering some of his verbal scores and audio-visual compositions; a volume with attached CD (Bologna: Agenda) focusing on his output, with essays by Sylvano Bussotti, Marco Lenzi and Michele Porzio; and a book-length interview by Paolo Carradori (Massarosa: Del Bucchia) with articles by Sylvano Bussotti, Renzo Cresti and Mario Gamba.