Enzo Marciano is an Italian conductor

Conducting

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, composer

Composer

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 and organist

Organist

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. Enzo was born in Corigliano d'Otranto

Corigliano d'Otranto

Corigliano d'Otranto is a small town and comune of 5,632 inhabitants in the province of Lecce in Apulia, Italy. It is one of the nine towns of Grecìa Salentina.-Sister cities: Ilion, Greece...

 (Lecce

Lecce

Lecce is a historic city of 95,200 inhabitants in southern Italy, the capital of the province of Lecce, the second province in the region by population, as well as one of the most important cities of Puglia...

) into a musical family. He studied at the Santa Cecilia Conservatory in Rome

Rome

Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...

 with Barbara Giuranna, Fernando Germani

Fernando Germani

Fernando Germani was an organists organist of the Basilica of St. Peter in Rome during the reign of Pope Pius XII.Germani, born in 1906, played the piano and violin in public at four years of age. At age eight he started taking lessons in composition from Resphigi who headed Germani toward the organ...

, Franco Ferrara

Franco Ferrara

Franco Ferrara was an Italian conductor.After obtaining diplomas in piano, violin, organ and musical composition at the Conservatory of Bologna, Ferrara began his career as violin player in Bologna, in Rome and in Florence, with the Orchestra of Maggio Musicale Fiorentino...

 and Olivio Di Domenico. He also studied with Giovanni Orsomando and Peter Rorke. He first conducted at age of 10 when his father Donato (a conductor) pushed him on the podium and told him to conduct the opening item of a concert because he felt sick (it was not true). Enzo has conducted orchestras in Italy

Italy

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 and in Australia

Australia

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 where he lives with his wife Marisa (a concert pianist) and two children Dony and Sebastian (both musicians). Some of his concerts have been recorded live and published on CDs. Much of his professional career was spent in Australia where he is the organist at the National Shrine of St.Anthony in Melbourne

Melbourne

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. Enzo's compositions include music for films, TV shows, a Passacaglia for organ and orchestra, various orchestral and choral works, three Masses and orchestrations of the most popular organ music by Bach which have been recorded and published on CDs. His recording of the Beethoven's Eroica

Eroica

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 has been highly acclaimed. Orchestral works by Dvorak, Tchaikovsky, Beethoven (including Symphony No.9), Cimarosa, Pergolesi, Mozart, Vivaldi, Brahms, Barsanti, Smetan a, Rossini, Verdi, Puccini etc. have been recorded and published on CDs. He has recorded and published twelve CD's of popular church music used for various religious services. He has been organist at Fono-Roma (music for films) where he played Ennio Morricone

Ennio Morricone

Ennio Morricone, Grand Officer OMRI, , is an Italian composer and conductor, who wrote music to more than 500 motion pictures and television series, in a career lasting over 50 years. His scores have been included in over 20 award-winning films as well as several symphonic and choral pieces...

's music. He has toured Italy and Australia as Organ recitalist and his organ repertoire includes music by Franck, Messian, Bach, Widor, Vivaldi (own arrangements), Kargt-Elert etc. He has been awarded the Medal of Solidarity by the Italian President.

External links

Filmographies Part 347 - Site Map - NYTimes.com - spiderbites.nytimes.com/.../00346.html Glorious Baroque by Enzo Marciano at jsbach.org

• www.movies.nytimes.com/person/985154/Enzo-Marciano
• www.grunin.com/eroica/ -[Beyond Reason (1970)]
• The Age Apr. 18, 1985
• The Age Oct 30,1987 www.grunin.com/eroica/intro.htm
• www.jsbach.org/enzo.html
• news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1300&dat=19690512&id...