By Shelby Hall
Campbellsville University student news writer
CAMPBELLSVILLE, Ky. – Marcelo Giannini, principal organist at the Temple of Carouge and professor in the Department of Ancient Music at the Haute École de Musique in Geneva, Switzerland, will be on tour in Kentucky during the week of Oct. 19.
He will be performing Campbellsville University’s Noon Organ Recital on Tuesday, Oct. 20 at 12:20 p.m. in Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church.
He will also be performing a full concert that evening at 8 o’clock in Campbellsville University’s Ransdell Chapel.
His program includes works by J.S. Bach, Vierne, Torelli, Franck and many other Swiss and Brazilian composers.
Giannini will be giving a masterclass for Campbellsville University organ students on Wednesday, Oct. 21 from 4 until 6 p.m. in Ransdell Chapel. CU students Steven Adams of Bardstown; Colleen Ames of Elizabethtown, and Chia-Yin Chen of Taiwan will be performing.
Giannini began his studies of organ and harpsichord in Brazil, his native country. He continued his studies with Karl Richter in Munich before concluding studies in Lionel Rogg’s class of organ and improvisation at the Geneva Conservatory with a Premier Prix in Virtuosité.
He regularly gives organ recitals throughout Europe and in Brazil. He has collaborated as organist and/or harpsichordist with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, the Chamber Orchestra of Geneva and the Orchestra Gulbenkian of Lisbonne.
For a number of years he has worked as choral director interpreting major works of the sacred repertoire. At the same time he has also directed from the harpsichord the Orchestre Gulbenkian of Lisbonne and the Orchestra of Caracas in programs of Baroque music, including the Brandenburg Concertos
More recently he has performed the solo role in Poulenc’s Organ Concerto with the Chamber Orchestra of Geneva and the Camerata Fukuda of São Paulo as well as Saint-Saëns’s Organ Concerto with the Orchestra Gulbenkian of Lisbonne.
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