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Paolo Oreni (organ) and Alessandro Marangoni (pianoforte) present their piano and organ recital in the Organ in Concert series at the Auditorio Alfredo Kraus.
Born in 1979, Paolo Oreni began his musical studies on the organ at the age of 11 with Walter Zaramella at the Gaetano Donizetti Musical Institute. In 2000 he received a scholarship from the Luxembourg Ministry of Culture and the Treviglio Cooperative Credit Bank and moved to Luxembourg, where he won First Prize in the International Competition “Prix Interrégional-Diplôme de Concert” (2002). He studied with Jean-Paul Imbert and Lydia Baldecchi Arcuri. A key point in his career was his meeting with maestro Jean Guillou at the master classes he attended at the Church of Saint Eustache in Paris and the Tonhalle in Zurich (Stiftung für Internationale Meisterkurse für Musik). He has won several prizes in international competitions, including an Honourable Mention at the Ville de Paris Competition in 2004. He has performed at La Scala in Milan, and with orchestras such as the LaVerdi Symphonic Orchestra in Milan, the Jeune Orchestre de Paris, the Bolzano Chamber Orchestra, the Symphonisches Orchester Zürich and the Bochumer Symphoniker. He is intensely active as a soloist and with orchestras and chamber ensembles, with more than 100 concerts a year in the most important auditoriums and churches in the world. Since 2006, he has been regularly invited by the Diocese of Munich to the Basilica of Ottobeuren and the Cathedral of Altenberg to give master classes in improvisation and organ repertoire.
Alessandro Marangoni, winner of numerous national and international competitions, is recognized on the international scene thanks to his important concert activity as a soloist at the main European festivals and an intense chamber activity with artists such as Mario Ancillotti, Enrico Dindo, Quirino Principe, Massimo Quarta, Claudia Koll, Francesco Manara, Paola Pitagora, Milena Vukotic and the Nuovo Quartetto Italiano.
Born in 1979, he graduated in piano with top marks with Marco Vincenzi at the Alessandria Conservatory. He followed postgraduate studies with Maria Tipo and Pietro de Maria at the Fiesole Music School. He holds a doctorate from the University of Pavia, with a thesis on the philosophy of music by Fernando Liuzzi), as a distinguished student of the Almo Collegio Borromeo.
In December 2007 he made his debut with Daniel Barenboim at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan. Some of his recent successes include a tour with Mozart concerts with the Amadeus Kammerorchester of the Mozarteum of Salzburg and the Orquesta I Filarmonici Europei or his debut in Spain with the Philharmonic of Malaga and in Bratislava with the Slovak Philharmonic with Aldo Ceccato.
He founded with Quirino Príncipe the duo Alexander Quirini and Quirino Alessandri, creating monographic programs of Rossini, Chopin and other great composers. He carried out the realization of more than a hundred concerts with great success in the virtual world of Second Life.
He collaborates with the jazz musician and composer Sandro Cerino, with whom he recorded the album Fronteras de Egeo. He has also recorded Rossini’s Peccati di vecchiaia (13 CDs), Clementi’s Gradus ad Parnassum (4 CDs), Liszt’s Via Crucis, the Piano Concertos and the cello and piano works (with Enrico Dindo) of Castelnuovo-Tedesco (Naxos). Alessandro invented the Chromoconcerto, a special project of music and colour. He has won the prestigious Italian Critics’ Award “F. Abbiati”, is artistic director of Forte Fortissimo TV and of Almo Collegio Borromeo in Pavia (Italy).