Ennio COMINETTI, organ

Following his conservatory studies, organist Ennio Cominetti began his multifaceted musical activity not only as a performer but also in composition, musicological research and music journalism. He has played in the most prestigious organ festivals of Europe, Asia, Africa, the United States, Canada and South America, for a total of some 1.000 appearances to date, with programs ranging from early to contemporary music.

He has recorded several CDs for Italian and German companies, broadcast by RAI3 (Radio) and favorably received by the most qualified critics. He has received national and international awards as a composer. His compositions have been recorded on CD and broadcast by RAI, Bayerische Rundfunk and Radio Vaticana.

He contributes organ-related articles to the magazines Musica e Scuola, Studi e documentazioni and L'orgue francophone. In Suonare News he writes a column on the valued organs of Italy.

He has conducted historical research on and catalogued the organs in Como province, publishing the volume Gli organi del decanato alto Lario. He recently published a biography of Marco Enrico Bossi, the most important Italian organist of the 19th and 20th centuries. He has held organ music seminars in Italy, Austria and Switzerland and has sat on juries in organ-playing, composition and chamber music competitions at the national level.

He is artistic director of the International Organ Festival in Varenna and the Province of Lecco, the "Lario in Musica" International Festival and the "Lario in Musica" Intemational Competition of Musical Interpretation. For over ten years he had been official organist of the Collegiata di San Giovanni Battista in Morbegno. Since 1994 he has taught organ at the "Musica e Arte" summer specialization courses in Tolentino (Marches). Since 1998 he has been director of the sacred music department and organ professor at the Arts Academy in Rome.