Improver

Eugenio Fagiani

Artistic Advisor at Custody of the Holy Land

Bergamo, Lombardy

He regularly performs in Europe, Israel, Russia, the United States and Canada on some of the most important instruments.
He is invited to hold masterclasses and lectures around Europe and North America as Cambridge University Organ Scolars' Forum (UK) and the RCCO Toronto (CDN). He has been the professor of the Improvisation Class created by the Ente Ecclesiastico of the Messina's Dome (Sicily). He is also invited as juror in international competitions.
During October 2012 he has done his first Russian Concert Tour that has received enthusiastic praise, with nine concerts in three weeks in some of the most important Concert Halls of Russia and Moscow's Cathedral.
In 2008 he was appointed as Guest Organist of the Franciscan Shrine of La Verna, Arezzo. In 2010 he started the collaboration as organist with the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano “G. Verdi”; with LaVerdi he recorded also for the Italian's state Radio Tre Rai. On the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 tragedy he performed Britten's War Requiem at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan with the Orchestra under the baton of Xian Zhang. With LaVerdi he also took part in their Russian Tour, with concerts in the Tchaikovsky Hall of Moscow's Conservatory, and the Glinka's Chapel in St. Petersburg, that the Orchestra held in November 2012. He also performed with the orchestra in the recordings of the symphonic music of Nino Rota, published by Decca (6 CD's with maestro Giuseppe Grazioli) in 2013. In the same year he was with LaVerdi at the BBC-Proms in London, at the Royal Albert Hall, again with maestro Xian Zhang. In November he was the organist in the highly praised performance of the Mahler's 8th Symphony that the LaVerdi gave with maestro Riccardo Chailly in Milano.
As a composer his works are published by Carrara, and Delatour France. His organ works are in the repertoire of world top-class virtuosos as John Scott, Stephen Tharp and David Briggs.
He records with the German label Spektral Records.
www.eugeniomariafagiani.com

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Experience:

• Direttore Artistico - Artistic Director (Festival Internazionale di Musica d'Organo della Verna)
• Artistic Advisor (Terra Sancta Organ Festival)
• Guest Organist (Franciscan Shrine of "La Verna")
• Organist, Composer and Church Musician (Freelance Organ Concert Player)
• Direttore Artistico - Artistic Director (Festival Organistico "S. Donato" - "S. Donato" Organ Festival)

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