Decorti Claudio (1936)
Italia
Guitarist and composer, was born in Trieste.
English
Claudio Decorti was born in Trieste (Italy) in 1936. He comes from a musical family, his father played piano, mandolin (classical) and horn, his mother was an opera singer and his sister plays piano and organ. His wife, Corinne, used to be a theatre and cabaret singer.
After hearing Segovia on the radio, Claudio was captivated by the sound of the guitar and began studies when he was 14 years old with Bruno Tonazzi, a former student of Segovia. In 1960, Claudio went to London to live for two years to 'practise his English' and visited the Spanish Guitar Centre where Len Williams asked him to play for him. After this 'hearing' Len suggested that Claudio take lessons with a student of his son, John Williams who was himself busy preparing for various concert engagements.
Although never having taken formal compositional theory lessons Claudio Decorti writes passionately 'from the heart'. He says “I have always composed but never wrote anything down until one day in 1997 when I decided to finally commit my pieces to paper”. He then took his works to an old friend of his, Mauro Storti, a very good concert artiste who had studied with Segovia and Diaz and had published many didactic methods. Storti eventually revised Decorti's pieces and introduced him to an Italian Publisher (ECO).
Some of Claudio Decorti's compositions have been played in Canada, Italy and England (where Steve Marsh gave the first performance of his work 'TALE' in 2001).
Web: http://www.lathkillmusic.co.uk/ComposerProfiles.html
After hearing Segovia on the radio, Claudio was captivated by the sound of the guitar and began studies when he was 14 years old with Bruno Tonazzi, a former student of Segovia. In 1960, Claudio went to London to live for two years to 'practise his English' and visited the Spanish Guitar Centre where Len Williams asked him to play for him. After this 'hearing' Len suggested that Claudio take lessons with a student of his son, John Williams who was himself busy preparing for various concert engagements.
Although never having taken formal compositional theory lessons Claudio Decorti writes passionately 'from the heart'. He says “I have always composed but never wrote anything down until one day in 1997 when I decided to finally commit my pieces to paper”. He then took his works to an old friend of his, Mauro Storti, a very good concert artiste who had studied with Segovia and Diaz and had published many didactic methods. Storti eventually revised Decorti's pieces and introduced him to an Italian Publisher (ECO).
Some of Claudio Decorti's compositions have been played in Canada, Italy and England (where Steve Marsh gave the first performance of his work 'TALE' in 2001).
Web: http://www.lathkillmusic.co.uk/ComposerProfiles.html