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Damiano Spagnolo. Curriculum Vitae

Organist at St. Peter’s Basilica and the Pontifical Swiss Guard’s Chapel of St. Martin and St. Sebastian, as well as with the Pontifical Musical Chorus of the Sistine Chapel. He has given concerts both in Italy and abroad.

He earned a diploma in "Organs and Organ Composition" at the St. Cecilia State Music Conservatory in Rome under the tutelage of Luigi Lohmann.

He has attended advanced organ courses given by Michael Radulescu, Christopher Stembridge (at the Chigiana Musical Academy in Sienna) and Ludger Lohmann.

Since 2001, he has been Professor of "Organs and Organ Composition" at the “Agostino Steffani" State Music Conservatory in Castelfranco, Veneto in Treviso.

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He is kept very busy as a soloist at major national and international organ festivals (Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Germany, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Hungary, the Vatican City, the United States).

He designed the new grand organ for the auditorium at the “Vincenzo Bellini” Musical Institute in Catania, where he was professor of Organs and Organ Composition from 1994 until 2001.

He participated as a coordinator (under the president Fendinando Tagliavini) on the technical-artistic committee for the restoration of a renowned organ with five keyboards and three consoles, constructed by Donato del Piano in the 18th century for the S. Nicoló l´Arena Benedictine Abby in Catania.

He has directed the restoration work for all the organs in the Basilica of St. Peter and he gave the inaugural concert on the new organ in the Governorate Chapel in the Vatican City in the presence of His Holiness Benedict XVI. He has worked as an organist at the Sta. Cecilia National Academy and at the Teatro dell´Opera in Rome. He has recorded all of his compositions for organ on the CD “Coronas Nahum Benignitate”, released by the Vatican Publishing House.