Italian organist Eugenio Maria FAGIANI plays the historic 1868 Erben organ

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Photo: at Santuario della Verna, Tuscany, Italy

Video: Eugenio Maria Fagiani plays Fugue in E Minor, Op. 152, D. 952 by Franz Schubert, from the CD "The Organ in the Age of Beethoven"

EUGENIO MARIA FAGIANI : Renowned internationally for his impressive, enthralling, and vibrant musical language, the Italian organist Eugenio Maria Fagiani performs regularly on the most important instruments in Europe, Russia, Middle East, and North America, such as Notre Dame de Paris (F), Berlin’s Dom (D), St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York (US), Tchaikovsky’s Great Hall in Moscow (RU), the Royal Albert Hall in London (UK), Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore in Firenze (I), the Hofkirche St. Leodegar in Luzern (CH), the St. James Anglican Cathedral in Toronto (CDN), the Skt. Florian Stiftsbasilika (A), the Basilica of the Annunciation in Nazareth (IL), and the National Center for the Arts Weiwuying di Kaohsiung (TWN).

Aside from his activity as a soloist, he holds a long term collaboration with the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano La Verdi (since 2010), and the Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini (since 2020), and has been directed by such eminent conductors as Jeffrey Tate, Riccardo Chailly, Xian Zhang, Claus-Peter Flor, Chien Wen-pin, Patrick Fournillier, Stanislav Kochanovsky, John Axelrod, Missak Baghboudarian, Jader Bignamini, Giuseppe Grazioli, Jens Georg Bachmann, and Alpesh Chauhan.

Celebrated as “the wizard of improvisation”, he’s also a fine composer. His works are now part of the repertoire of some of the most prestigious artists of our time such as David Briggs and Stephen Tharp.

Since 2008, Eugenio has been the Organist of the Franciscan Shrine of La Verna, Arezzo (IT). He is the Artistic Director of the Festival Internazionale di Musica d’Organo de La Verna, and the Festival Organistico “S.Donato'' in the Arezzo’s Dome, and also since 2016 he is the Artistic Advisor of the Terra Sancta Organ Festival, across seven countries in the Middle East region, organized by the Custody of the Holy Land. He is frequently invited to hold masterclasses (both in Interpretation and Improvisation), and lectures for several top-class music institutions around Europe and North America, such as the Cambridge University Organ Scolar’s Forum (UK) and the RCCO, Toronto (CDN). He also serves as a juror in international competitions.

He records with VDE-Gallo, Spektral Records, Fugatto, Da Vinci Classics, Decca, and Warner. These productions have received excellent reviews from the major international specialized publications.

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This organ is one of New York City’s historic gems. It was constructed by the world-renowned New York City organbuilder Henry Erben (1800–1884). It is the only extant three-manual Erben organ, and is the only large, mid-19th-century Henry Erben pipe organ left in America, intact, in its original acoustic space. The organ has logged more than 150,000 liturgies and thousands of hours of rehearsals and concerts over 150 years. Support the Erben restoration

A masterpiece of musical and visual art, its nearly 2,500 pipes still speak with grandeur and eloquence. Henry Erben’s factory in the 1840s was one of the largest in the city. He shipped instruments to cathedrals and churches in Havana, Guatemala, Venezuela, Colombia, and the new territories of the American West. Erben employed skilled European and American craftsmen, some of whom signed their names to the pipes they crafted.

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Photo of the 1868 Henry Erben organ: Joshua South, Sidewalk Productions.

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