Contributing Organists
Corrado Cavalli, Italy
Corrado Cavalli, born in Turin in 1978, began his musical studies with P.Tarallo (piano). He continued organ studies at the National Conservatory Giuseppe Verdi of Turin under professors G. Cagnani, L. Fornero and F. Caporali (improvisation) where he graduated with full marks in 2006. He won the Turin National Conservatory's prize C. Silipo for the best organ performance diploma.
He attended master-classes held by famous professors as L. Tagliavini, L. Robillard, L. Lohmann and others, most of the courses took place in the prestigious Haarlem International Academy for Organists (The Netherlands).
In 2007 he won the Pinchi prize (2nd place) in the 12th National Organ Competition Città di Viterbo (concert artistists section). In 2003 he won, in the students section, the 8th edition of the same competition. He also joined the semi-final of the 12th International Organ Competition in Dublin, Ireland in 2005.
He performs in many international and national festivals both in his own country and abroad. He played with many vocal and instrumental ensembles as the Italian National Symphonic Orchestra of Rai, the French Ensemble Orchestral des Alpes et de la Mer, the Italian orchestra B. Bruni, the Chamber Orchestra and Chamber Choir of the National Conservatory Giuseppe Verdi of Turin, the professional vocal ensemble La Cappella de' Cantori and the vocal academy Guido d'Arezzo.
His repertoire ranges from the Renaissance to 21st century music, including his own organ arrangements of orchestral works of famous composers such as Mozart, Bach, Cajkovskij, Smetana, Shostakovich, and others. One of these arrangements, Smetana's Moldou, has been recently published in the Italian Edition Armeiln Musica.
Currently, he is organist at S.Filippo Neri, and S.Giulia Church, as well as the SS. Sudario Congregation, in Turin.