Leandro Bianchi is an eclectic composer and guitarist who creates a unique sound characterized by emotional atmospheres and diverse musical textures, the result of blending his experiences with musicians from around the world and across various genres (jazz, Indian, African, and Latin American music, among others) with elements from his training in flamenco, classical, and contemporary music.
A restless musician constantly in search of new horizons, Leandro lives in Spain, where, after years of studying with the great masters of the flamenco tradition, he has succeeded in applying a refined flamenco technique to his entire musical oeuvre.
As he himself says,“Music is a boundless horizon.”
FULL BIOGRAPHY: Guitaristand composer. Hebegan playing the guitar at the age of seven and studied composition and classical guitar at the “Juan José Castro National Conservatory” and the “National University Institute of Argentina (IUNA)” in Buenos Aires, in addition to studying jazz with the masters. “Walter Maolsetti,” “Ernesto Snajer,” and “Alejandro Moro,” and flamenco with “David Amaya” of the renowned Spanish group “La Barbería del Sur.” A few years later, he decided that his path lay with the flamenco guitar, and to delve deeper into the style, he moved to Madrid, where he studied with the masters “Entri,” “Enrique Vargas,” José Jiménez “El Viejin,” and José Luis Montón, and participated in the course “Nature and Form of the Flamenco Guitar” directed by Manolo Sanlúcar, taught by him alongside Juan Carlos Romero, Manolo Franco, and Paco Serrano. Leandro Bianchi is one of the guitarists in Spain who has successfully fused musical cultures from different ethnic groups and styles, such as those of Spain, Africa, India, and Latin America.
He leads the group RASA World Fusion, with which he has performed at numerous festivals such as Estival (Cuenca), the 14th Chiclana International Festival of Ethnic Music (FIMEC), and the 29th Lillo Cánovas International Music Week (San Vicente del Raspeig)… He has been a member of and collaborated on various projects, including the Raúl Mannola Sextet, La Jose, Bogi Jui “Sonidos de la Tierra,” Colectivo Estimulo, Sacromonte, De cobre, Coco Malangao, De mar a mar, with whom he has recorded several albums and toured throughout Europe and the world (France, Hungary, Germany, Argentina, Romania, Serbia, Portugal, Spain, Croatia, Italy, Finland, etc.) and with whom he has performed at the Exit Festival (Novi Sad – Serbia), the Cordoba Guitar Festival (Spain), Percumon, the Ingolstadt Bürgerfest, the Babel Sound Festival (Hungary), Sepsiszentgyörgy – Múzeumkert (Transylvania – Romania), and the Aszk Festival (Szeged – Romania). Riomundi (Córdoba, Spain), Torreón del Cante Festival (Málaga, Spain)…
He has shared the stage and recorded with renowned national and international musicians such asJavier Colina,Juan Medina (Juanito Makandé), Javier Malosetti, Martín Bruhn, Miryam Latrece, Juan Carlos Aracil (El Bicho),Antonio Lizana, Wafir Gibril and Vincent Molino (Radio Tarifa), Alpargata, Eme Alfonso, Alana Sinkëy (Cosmosoul, Patax), Aboubakar Syla,Blanca Paloma, Leila Cherro, etc.
