Marco Lo Muscio

Marco Lo Muscio (born 1971) is an Italian organist, pianist and composer, who lives and works in Italy, Europe, Russian Federation and America.

Marco Lo Muscio was born in Rome, Italy.

Marco Lo Muscio studied Piano at the Licinio Refice Conservatory in Italy.

He earned a degree in Piano with Professor Tonino Maiorani and a degree in Musical Pedagogy with Professor Giulio Sforza at the Conservatorio Statale di Musica in Frosinone (Italy) and at the Roma Tre University (Italy).

He also obtained a degree of Advanced Studies in Piano at the Academy Bartolomeo Cristofori with the pianist Sergio Fiorentino, and a specialization in Pipe Organ with James Edward Goettsche.

The compositions and transcriptions of Marco Lo Muscio were broadcast on BBC, BR-Klassik,Vatican Radio, TV2000, RAI 3, and performed worldwide from renowned musicians such as Kevin Bowyer, Thomas Trotter, Roger Sayer, Carol Anne Williams, John Hackett, Christopher Herrick, Stephen Farr, David Briggs, John Scott, Patrick Ayrton, Andrea Padova, Chris Jarrett, Stephen Tharp.

Lo Muscio recorded CDs for the English classical label Priory Records, Stradivarius (record label) and Brilliant Classics.

Since 2004, he has been the art director of the International Organ Summer Festival in Rome, Italy, where internationally acclaimed organists and musicians performed such as Jean Guillou, Thomas Trotter, Stephen Tharp, Roger Sayer, Roger Fisher, Martin Baker, Pauli Pietiläinen, Aivars Kalējs, John Hackett, Pär Lindh, Jakob Lorentzen, Kevin Bowyer, David Briggs, Christopher Herrick, David Jackson, John Scott, Colin Walsh, Carson Cooman, Andrew Nethsingha, Martin Setchell, Alessandro Bianchi, Jean-Paul Imbert, Gail Archer.

Since 2008, Lo Muscio has been the Italian collaborator of John Hackett

and Steve Hackett (Genesis).

England (St John's College, Cambridge,King's College, Cambridge, Merton College, Oxford, Keble College, Oxford,St Paul's Cathedral, Lincoln Cathedral, Ely Cathedral,Norwich Cathedral, Coventry Cathedral, Sheffield Cathedral, Canterbury Cathedral, The Queen's College, Oxford,Exeter College, Oxford, Gloucester Cathedral, Westminster Cathedral, Westminster Abbey, Lancaster Priory (with Steve Hackett), Temple Church,Truro Cathedral, St George's Chapel Windsor Castle, etc...) Scotland (University of Glasgow Memorial Chapel, Wales, New York, Chicago,- Washington D.C., Boston, Milwaukee, Spain, Lisbon Cathedral, Switzerland, Ukraine, Czech Republic, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Denmark, Sweden (Uppsala Cathedral),Finland, Norway, Iceland, Russian Federation: Moscow International House of Music (2010),Saint Petersburg Philharmonia (Great Hall 2005, 2006, 2011), Saint Petersburg Court Capella (Glinka Capella),Gnessin State Musical Collegein Moscow,Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Moscow.

Recording Projects with English label Priory Records:

(Music by Jean Langlais, Marco Lo Muscio, Samuel Barber, Paolo Lazzeri, Keith Emerson, Keith Jarrett, Aaron Copland, Ralph Vaughan Williams).

(Music by Anonymous [Germany], Andreas Kneller, Marco Lo Muscio, Johann Nikolaus Hanff, Johann Heinrich Buttstett, Johann Sebastian Bach, Arvo Pärt, Hugo Distler, Eduardo Torres, Andreas Willscher, Rick Wakeman, Steve Hackett).

(Music by Carl Orff, Marco Lo Muscio, Dietrich Buxtehude, Nikolaus Hasse, Johann Heinrich Buttstett, Johann Sebastian Bach, George Frideric Handel, James Edward Goettsche, Christian Heinrich Rinck, Andreas Willscher, Rick Wakeman).

(Music by Marco Lo Muscio: Eowin's Memories, Trittico Toscano, Canzona "Homage to Gubbio", Vocalise No 5, Concert Variations on Greensleeves, In Memoriam Teodosia, Blue Prelude, Ostinato [Four Hands], Via Crucis [Stations of the Cross], New Litanies in memory of Jehan Alain).

Since 2019 he has been the creator of the "Wunderkammer Artificialia", a Wunderkammer Museum that allows the interaction between art and music (guided tour with concert).

Concerts as organist and pianist in Cathedrals and Concert Halls in Italy,

Vatican, France (Notre-Dame de Paris), Milan Cathedral, Germany,

Recording Projects with Stradivarius (record label) (2019):

Featuring Steve Hackett, David Jackson and David Cross (musician).

(Music by Georg Philipp Telemann, Christoph Willibald Gluck, Maurice Ravel, György Ligeti, King Crimson, Genesis (band), Steve Hackett, John Hackett and Marco Lo Muscio.

Recording Projects with Brilliant Classics (2019):

(Music by Marco Lo Muscio and Steve Hackett).

With "Da Vinci Classics":

Appears On "Musica Viva - Today's Italian Organ Music" - Domenico Severin (2019)

"Homage to Edgar Allan Poe - The arrival of Red Death"

Recording Projects with English label Hacktrax Records:

Recording Projects with Finnish Magazine Colossus and French label Musea Records:

Recording Projects with Italian labels Drycastle Records and Erreffe Edizioni Musicali distributed from BTF (Italian distribution) and Camino Records''':

Video:

Recording Projects with Italian label Studio Amadeus:

(Music by Fauré, Liszt, Jehan Alain, Messiaen)

(Music by Bach, Jean Langlais, Guillaume de Machaut, Arvo Pärt, John Dowland, Thomas Tallis, Orlando Gibbons, Vaughan Williams)

(Music by Richard Strauss, Martin Steel, Herbert Howells, Bjarne Sløgedal, Derek Bourgeois, Erik Satie, Charles Tournemire, Simon Preston, John Weaver, Henry Purcell, Henry VIII, William Walton)

(Music by Lo Muscio, Chick Corea, Brad Mehldau, Keith Jarrett, Keith Emerson, Lennie Tristano, George Gershwin, Steve Hackett, Tony Banks)

Works for Pipe Organ

Appears On "Ferrari, Bacchini, Bertuletti, Macchia, Lo Muscio: Tabula Summa, Italian Contemporary Organ Music" - Ivan Ronda (2020)

"Prelude in memory of Maurice Ravel"; "Gothic Dances"

With "Appassionato label":