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Eugenio Maria Fagiani
An impressive Organist and Composer
The Diapason (Usa), 2010
Fagiani is undoubtedly a splendid player
Fagiani ist fraglos ein glänzender Spieler
Organ - Journal für die Orgel (D), 2010
The guest from Bergamo proved his great virtuosity
(After a concert in Hüthum, D) Der Gast aus Bergamo bewies seine große Virtuosität
DerWersten (D), 2010
A top-class organist.
An outstanding interpretation of the Guilmant's Sonatas
Un organista di valore assoluto – Magistrale interpretazione delle Sonate di Guilmant
Gazzetta del Sud (I), 2011
...the wizard of improvisation
...il mago dell'improvvisazione
La Stampa (I), 2011
...a true idol of the audience in a matter of minutes
(in concerto a Khabarovsk, Ru) подлинным кумиром публики за считанные минуты
Михаил КОРЧМАРЕВ Хабаровские вести (RU), 2012
Eugenio Maria Fagiani is not only a virtuoso organist, but also a very talented
composer
Eugenio Maria Fagiani n'est pas seulement un organiste virtuose, mais aussi un compositeur de grand talent.
Marcel Bitsch – Professeur d'Ecriture honoraire au C.N.S.M de Paris (F)
He studied with M° Enzo Corti in Milan and got and Organ and Composition Diploma at the “Luca
Marenzio” Conservatorium in Brescia. He also graduated in Musicology at the SPFM in CremonaPavia University with a graduation thesis on "Marcel Duprè and the art of improvisation". He took
part to several specialization courses in interpretation with Nigel Allcoat, Ewald Kooiman, Piet Kee,
Daniel Roth, Gillian Weir and Naji Hakim. Later on he specialized in the art of improvisation with:
Nigel Allcoat, Jurgen Essl, Peter Planyavsky e Naji Hakim. He also went thoroughly into the study
of Music Analysis with Marcel Bitsch.
He regularly performs in Europe, Russia, the United States and Canada on some of the most
important instruments including the: Brucknerorgel della Skt. Florian Stiftsbasilika in Skt. Florian,
Linz (A); Domkirche, Eisenstadt (A); St. Clement’s Church, Rathgeb Memorial Organ at Deer Park
United Church e St. James Anglican Cathedral in Toronto (CDN); Église Unie St. James, Montreal
(CDN); Église Chalmers-Wesley, Quebec City (CDN); Kollegiorgel, Schwyz (CH); Frauenkirche,
Dom zu Unserer Lieben Frau, München (D); Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtnis Kirche, Berlin (D);
Ottobeuren Stiftsbasilika (D); St-Marien Domkirche, Hamburg (D); Ulmer Muenster (D); St.
Jakobs-Kirche, Rothenburg o.d. Tauber (D); Saint Saviour's Church, Jerusalem (IL); Bialystok's
Cathedral (PL); Olsztyn's Cathedral (PL); Uppsala Domkyrka (SVE); Temple Church, Southwark
Cathedral and St. Paul's Cathedral in London (UK); King's College Chapel, Cambridge (UK);
Basilica of the National Shrine of Immaculate Conception in Washington D.C. (USA); St. Thomas
(Episcopal) Church,
St. Patrick's Cathedral e St. Bartholomew’s Church in New York City (USA); Saint Paul's United
Methodist Church, Rochester MI (USA); Hill Auditorium, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
(USA); Santuario della Verna (I); Basilica di S. Vitale, Ravenna (I); Duomo di Messina (I).
He is invited to hold masterclasses and lectures for several important musical institutions around
Europe and North America as Cambridge University Organ Scolars' Forum (UK) and the Royal
Canadian College of Organists, Toronto (CDN). 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
(Philharmonic Halls of Perm, Nizhniy Tagil, Omsk, Chelyabinsk, Ufa, Tyumen, Ekaterinburg and
Khabarovsk – as soloist with the Far East Symphony Orchestra) and Moscow's Cathedral. The
success of this tour is worth the immediate invitation to a new major tour in the 2014-2015 season.
In 2008 he was appointed as Guest Organist of the Franciscan Shrine of La Verna, Arezzo. In 2010
he began the collaboration as organist with the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano “Giuseppe Verdi”,
with which he has recorded also for the Italian's state broadcasting company 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 Great Tchaikovsky Hall of Moscow's Conservatory, and the
Glinka's Chapel of the Imperial Palace in St. Petersburg, that the Orchestra held in November 2012.
As well as worked with the orchestra in the recording project of the symphonic music of Nino Rota,
published by Decca in 2013. In September 2013 he will be with the LaVerdi at the BBC-Proms in
London.
As a composer, his works include pieces for camera ensemble, organ and orchestra and are
published by Carrara, Turris and Delatour France. His production for organ, whose relevance is
internationally well-established (performed by several artists in top venues: from the Tokio's
University to the Leizpig's Gewandhaus, from Notre Dame de Paris to the Sydney's Cathedral via
the Hill Auditorium of the University of Michigan), is testified by the continuus commissions from
European and North-American Festivals as well as from world top-class virtuosos. These works are
now part of the repertoire of some of the most prestigious artists of our time as John Scott, Stephen
Tharp, Johannes Geffert, Carol Williams, Robert Kovacs e Massimo Nosetti.
He is also the author of a very successful series of organ transcriptions
With the CD Crucis Christi Mons Alvernae, recorded with the choir of La Verna’s friars, obtained
the “Recording of the year 2009” acknowledgement from Alias, cultural review of the National
newspaper Il Manifesto, by the director of the contemporary music review Konsequenz.
He records with the German label Spektral Records.
www.eugeniomariafagiani.com