Valter Borin

Valter Borin
A versatile musician who studied at the Conservatory of Milan, graduating brilliantly in Piano and Composition.

At the same time, he also studied opera singing and conducting. He pursued a career as a first tenor at international level from 1998 to 2015. Since 2013 he has resumed full-time his career as a conductor, started in his youth, activity still conducted at international level.
He studied composition with Lorenzo Ferrero, Bruno Cerchio, Nicolò castiglioni, Irlando Danieli, Angelo Bellisario. In his production as a composer Valter Borin includes pieces for the most varied instrumental ensembles: from the solo instrument to symphonic and choral pieces. His very personal musical style, deliberately does not follow any trend, but conforms to an ever-present personal lyricism. Valter Borin is not a researcher or an innovator but rather an author who tends to reuse the musical material that has historically come down to us, trying to bend it to his own expressive purposes. For this reason, his catalog embraces many different styles, often mixed together. Lately, he has been developing research in music-therapy, which he is applying to some of his new works, in the conviction that certain music can also be helpful for many psychological problems.
In the lyrical poem "PHOS" Valter Borin has tried to find an equal balance between the piano and the voice: both are pushed to the highest levels of technical difficulty, but without either of them being overpowering. The virtuosity is not an end in itself but it is the result of a language that could perhaps be defined as "post-expressionist", and which has the task of underlining the poetic text of the story imagined by Dario Ponissi. The musical path undertaken with PHOS is a constant search to evoke action in music, through which he has tried to render actions, atmospheres, feelings, darkness and light in the notes themselves, imagining a sort of "soundtrack" of the story. The result of the collaboration with Dario Ponissi is also a delightful collection of lullabies written in five different languages.
Among the various pieces in the catalog of Valter Borin stand out the fantasy for orchestra "Dolphins of Malaga", and the sacred piece "Veni Creator Spiritus" for soprano solo, choir and orchestra.