Biography
Composer & Arts Manager


Gianca Liano
The universe of sounds from Gianca Liano's music sails between contemporary classical, soundscape, filmscoring and ambient.

Gianca Liano composes music that is considered "meta-paesaggistica", writing in his scores musical ideas that relate to the world of soundscape. His projects of contemporary classical music develop mainly in Italy, Guatemala and Costa Rica. Since 2023 has become artistic director of the project Musica Randagia, a series of concerts that brings contemporary classical music in dialogue with urban culture in the heart of Milan. Founder of the interdisciplinary ensemble of contemporary art "Centro Ensamble" (Guatemala City), moreover has collaborated with cultural institutions such as Accademia della Voce del Piemonte (Turín, Italia), Associazione Rive Gauche Concerti (Turín, Italia), Museo del Paesaggio Sonoro (Riva presso Chieri, Italia), Orquesta Sinfónica de Heredia (Heredia, Costa Rica), Teatro Nacional de Costa Rica (San José, Costa Rica), Orquesta Sinfónica de la Universidad de Costa Rica (San José, Costa Rica) and the Sistema de Orquestas de Guatemala (Guatemala City, Guatemala).

On 2013 his work for the film "12 Segundos" was awarded at the "Ícaro Film Festival" for best original score (Guatemala City). Liano is actively working filmscoring projects for films, series, theatre and videogames.

Among his most relevant publications is the EP "Cuatro Paisajes con Carretera, y un Momento Espiritual" (2023) and his three albums "Ixkik', Ricomposizioni" (2023), "Opus Cero" (2019) and "Una Niña Llamada Ana / Banda Sonora Original para Teatro" (2017).

Developed his skills as an arts manager at the Master in Arts Management and Administration at the SDA Bocconi. Studied at the Conservatorio di Musica "Giuseppe Verdi" di Milano (2020 - 2022), with maestro Riccardo Piacentini, Gabriele Manca, Martin Matalon, David del Puerto and Barry Truax; at the Universidad de Costa Rica (2013 -2017) completes his studies with maestro Carlos Castro y Vladislav Soifer; at the Accademia Chigiana (2012) specializes on filmscoring with maestro Luis Bacalov.

On 2020 exercised as the coordinator for the Licenciatura en Composición y Producción Musical at the Universidad del Valle de Guatemala. His main area is music theory, teaching courses at the Universidad del Valle del Guatemala and Universidad Panamericana since 2018.

Between 2019 and 2020 served as part of the board for the Sistema de Orquestas de Guatemala, supporting the music development of hundreds of teenagers at Guatemala City.
Music
Music composition for films

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Cold Dead Hands
México, 2021
Una Niña Llamada Ana
Costa Rica, 2017
Fun Class
Costa Rica, 2016
12 Segundos
ÍCARO" Award for best original
score of the year Guatemala 2013
El Capitán Orellana
Colaboration, Guatemala, 2012

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Contemporary music composition
Can you hear now and also listen to your memory of an old sound?
Italia, 2024


Cuando paré, todo seguía dando vueltas
Italia, 2024


Cuatro paisajes con carretera, y un momento espiritual
Italia, 2023


Le montagne piangono neve / per orchestra
Italia, 2022


Trasparente
Italia, 2022


Te escucho lejos
Italia, 2022


Orilla / tombeau pour Vladislav Soifer
Italia, 2022


Ixkik' / per soprano ed elettronica
Italia, 2021


Entropía / del orden al caos
Guatemala, 2020


Visiones de Robot / para Disklavier y Orquesta
Guatemala, 2018


Thalassa / Variaciones para septeto
Costa Rica, 2016
Dos Movimientos para Orquesta de Cuerdas
Costa Rica, 2016
Frontera / videoarte para cuarteto de percusión
"Inquieta-Imagen" official collection,
Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo
de Costa Rica, 2015
Elegía para violín y piano
Costa Rica, 2015
5 Haikus de Matsuo Basho
para Soprano y Piano
Costa Rica, 2013
Contact
info@giancaliano.com
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