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Born: August 5, 2021 - Fiorano al Serio, Province of Bergamo, Lombardy, Italy
Died: May 19, 2009 - Milano, Italy |
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The Italian choral conductor, Mino Bordignon, has obtained his classical high school diploma, fefore he enrolled in the Faculty of Agriculture in Milano. At the same time, he developed his musical culture by studying vocal polyphony in the cities of Bergamo and Milano. At the outbreak of the World War II, he was sent as an Alpine lieutenant to the Russian front, where he met a local musician who advised him to "educate voices". Upon returning home, he accepted the invitation, undertaking further studies in Vienna and Berlin together with Arnold Grossmann and Wolfgang Scheidt, specializing in vocal-instrumental polyphony and orchestral conducting.
In 1949 Mino Bordignon founded the Coro Incas (Istituzione Nuova Corale Alpina Seriana) of Fiorano al Serio, a formation of male voices for the transposition of popular songs, privileging old Alpine songs and new harmonizations. After having directed courses at the conservatories of Milano and those of Mantua and Bergamo, he then began the activity of artistic director of the record company called La voce del padrone, directing all the existing chamber choirs.
In 1969 he began his collaboration with RAI, where he first directed the Coro da Camera di Roma, five years later, that of Milano, working for over thirty years in the various regional offices. Starting in 1982 he established a collaboration with the Coro Filarmonico del Teatro alla Scala di Milano and with the Orchestra Camerata Strumentale. He founded, among others, the mixed voice choir Cantores Mundi of Borgosesia (1961), Civici Cori of Milano (1979) of which he was director for five decades, and Un Coro per Milano (2004).
With the different formations of the Civici Cori he produced over six hundred concerts through the performances of the most important polyphonic-choral literatures of the second millennium. Since May 21, 2009 he has rested in the small country cemetery of Cassanigo (Faenza Ra) next to his beloved wife (RAI chorister) Lia Bertozzi. He collaborated for a long time with the mathematician and musician Bernardino Streito, founder of the Corale Polifonica Valchiusella based in Vico Canavese. Father of the biologist Claudio Bordignon, distinguished at an international level for his scientific merits, he died in Milano on May 19, 2009 at the age of 87. |
