Claudio Constantini was born in 1983 into a family of musicians. His            
mother, Carlota Mestanza de Constantini (orchestra conductor) and his
father Gerardo Constantini (pianist) would be of great influence in
Claudio´s artistic career. He began his musical studies at age 13 withthe
piano. Soon after that he entered the National Conservatory of Lima, Perú
(his home country) and won the third place in the National Bela Bartok piano
competition. In the conservatory he was a pupil of his father, Gerardo
Constantini.

            Many events followed after his enrollment at the conservatory: his solo
piano debut, his debut as soloist with orchestra, winner of the National
Conservatory competition for two consecutive years, etc.  In 2001 he won the
first prize in the International Litmann competition, New York.

            In 2001 he also met his future wife, Finnish violinist Suvi Myöhänen, with      
whom he formed a duo which is still active (see ensembles).

            In 2002 he was accepted in the Lahti Polytechnic Faculty of Music, Finland,
where he continued his studies with Lauri Väinmaa, and later Raija Kerppo.

            The following year he decided to go deeper into a genre of music that
awoke a great interest and passion in him; the Argentinean Tango. He formed
an ensemble in Finland called Milonga del Norte (see ensembles) and learned
to play the bandoneón, a wonderful free-reed instrument originally from Germany
but fully incorporated into Argentinean music by the 1900´s, consecuence of
European immigration. With the Milonga del Norte group, he won the 1st prize
in the International Astor Piazzolla Music Award, Italy, in 2005.

            In 2006 Claudio and Suvi moved to Rotterdam, The Netherlands, where    
they study at the Argentinean tango faculty of the Rotterdam Conservatory,
apart from doing free-lance work as musicians. In the school they study about
the different existing styles and ways of playing in tango, but in practice Claudio
focuses on doing his own compositions and  arrangements, and on performing
either new, or relatively unknown works.

            Through the years, Claudio Constantini has played numerous recitals
and concerts with orchestra, with both piano and bandoneón, in countries
such as Perú, U.S.A., Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Holland, Belgium, 
Russia, etc.

            In 2008, Claudio was awarded with the HSP Huygens scholarship, a
prestigios scholarship awarded to pursue the Master's degree studies in
Classical piano. Therefore, Claudio will start his Master degree studies in
september 2008 at the Rotterdam Conservatory with Maestro Aquiles
Delle Vigne as teacher.

            Claudio has worked extensively as a piano correpetiteur,  mainly for
singers and choirs. He was the main accompanist for choirs such as the
National Conservatory´s choir and children´s choir in Lima, Perú, The San isidro
choir of Lima, the Soinninkajo ensemble in Finland; Claudio was also the
principal correpetiteur of the Sylvia koti singing school in Lahti, Finland, from
2002 till 2006.

            Claudio is an active and experienced arranger/transcriber as well.
For more information about his work, go to: Arrangements - Transcriptions.