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ORGANIX Italian Arts Festival Series 2023 | Mario Ciferri

This year, the Istituto Italiano di Cultura Toronto was pleased to once again co-present with the Glionna Mansell Corporation, talented musicians from Italy, performing on the grand pipe organ. In this video, Mario Ciferri performs at the Basilica of Our Lady Immaculate in Guelph, Ontario on May 31, 2023. A concert in Toronto followed on June 3, 2023, at the Timothy Eaton Memorial Church. Also performing at the 2023 edition of the festival were Eugenio Maria Fagiani and Giulia Biagetti. ORGANIX CONCERTS is a unique music festival featuring the grand pipe organ, its repertoire and the talented musicians who perform in this musical genre. The series is designed to present solo and ensemble performances of repertoire that would not normally be heard in a Toronto or region organ concert. Concerts will be presented in Toronto and Guelph. MARIO CIFERRI was born in Fermo – Italy. He performs regularly as an organist in renowned International Organ Festivals in Italy and abroad, always to high acclaim as he performs in well-known Concert Halls and Cathedrals: France (Paris, Bordeaux, Lyon, Montpellier), Germany (Muenchen, Mainz, Fulda, Herford, Saarbrucken, Rheda, Karlsruhe, Pforzheim, Darmstadt, Ottobeuren, Ingolstadt, Wiesbaden, Potsdam), Austria, United Kingdom (St. Paul’s Cathedral and Temple Church in London, Lincoln, Rochester, Edinburgh), Czech Republic, Slovakia (Bratislava), Poland (Warsaw, Poznan, Wadowice, Legnica), Switzerland (Lausanne, Lugano), Denmark (Copenhagen, Odense), Finland, Spain, Malta, Portugal, Belgium (Brugge), Sweden (Lund, Malmo), Lithuania (Vilnius), Russia (Moscow Cathedral, St. Petersburgh, Ekaterinburg, Perm and Sochi Philarmonias), Siberia, Belarus (Minsk, Vitebsk), Canada (Toronto) and USA (St. Patrick’s Cathedral and Central Synagogue in New York). In 2018 he performed as a soloist the M.E. Bossi organ concerto op. 100 with the Sochi Philarmonia. His extensive repertory includes music from Ancient to Modern consisting of the most important pieces by D. Buxtehude, J. S. Bach, F. Mendelssohn, A. G. Ritter, F. Liszt, J. Reubke, M. Reger, S. Karg-Elert, C. Franck, C.-M. Widor, L. Vierne, M. Duruflé. Among organ concerts, there are numerous inaugurations of restored historical organs in Italy. He also presented the first modern performances of composers from the Marche region: A. Cruciani, G. B. Mastini, B. Bittoni, C. A. Cristiani, L. Vecchiotti and others. He has several times collaborated as an organist with such orchestras as The Virtuosos of Bucharest, the International Orchestra of Italy, the Chamber Orchestra of Marche and the Philarmonic Orchestra of Marche, taking part in symphonic Festivals. In 2004 he recorded a CD of the complete organ works by Luigi Vecchiotti (1804-1863) for recording label “La Bottega Discantica” in Milano as the first world recording. He also recorded a CD as organist in “Oratorio de Noël” op. 12 by C. Saint-Saëns with the Chamber Orchestra of Marche for recording label “Sheva,” and he took part in the DVD “Terra d’organi” playing on historical organs in Region Marche. As Choir and Orchestra Conductor, he works with many famous artists and baroque ensembles, Italian orchestras and choirs performing great compositions by J. S. Bach, G. F. Händel, M. A. Charpentier, W. A. Mozart, A. Vivaldi, B. Galuppi, G. B. Pergolesi, G. Giordani, G. Fauré, and C. Saint-Säens. In 2006 A.R.CO.M. (Regional Association of Choirs in Marche) invited him to conduct the selected Regional Choir performing Requiem KV 626 by W. A. Mozart and Motets by B. Britten in several concerts, one of them was at “Teatro alle Muse” in Ancona. In 2014 he won the First Prize at “A. Guanti” International Choral Competition in Matera and the special prize for the best performance of a piece composed by an Italian contemporary author. In 1998 he won the National Competition for exams and titles and is a teacher of Organ, Gregorian Chant and Harpsichord at the “G. B. Pergolesi” Conservatoire of Music in Fermo. He is the titular organist in St. George’s Cathedral in Porto San Giorgio, where he is also the Artistic Director of the International Organ Festival.