Marco Lo Muscio


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

Biography

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 and at the Roma Tre University.
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.
Since 2004, he is 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 is the Italian collaborator of John Hackett
and Steve Hackett.
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 and Brilliant Classics.

Works

Concerts as organist and pianist in Cathedrals and Concert Halls in Italy,
Vatican, France, Germany,
England Scotland, Wales, New York, Chicago, Washington D.C., Boston, Milwaukee, Spain, Portugal, Switzerland, Ukraine, Czech Republic, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia
, Denmark, Sweden,Finland,
Norway, Iceland, Russian Federation Moscow International House of Music, Saint Petersburg Philharmonia, Saint Petersburg Court Capella,Gnessin State Musical Collegein Moscow, Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Moscow.

Recordings

Recording Projects with English label Priory Records:
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Recording Projects with Stradivarius :
Featuring Steve Hackett, David Jackson and David Cross.
, Steve Hackett, John Hackett and Marco Lo Muscio.
Recording Projects with Brilliant Classics :
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With "Appassionato label":
Appears On "Musica Viva - Today's Italian Organ Music" - Domenico Severin
"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 and Camino Records:
  • "Marco Lo Muscio Plays Marco Lo Muscio"
  • "New Horizons: The Music of Steve Hackett"
  • "Dark and Light": Progressive originals and transcriptions
  • "The Book of Bilbo and Gandalf" with Steve Hackett, John Hackett and Pär Lindh
  • "The Mystic and Progressive Music"
Video:
  • "Dusk Day 4: Welcome Steve! A day in Orvieto
  • "The Mystic and Esoteric Organ"
Recording Projects with Italian label Studio Amadeus:'''
Works for Pipe Organ
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2019:
I. Ostinato sur le nom M.E.R.L.I.N.
II. Ricercare on the name G.A.N.D.A.L.F.

I. On the name T.A.L.L.I.S.
II. On the name A.S.T.O.N.
III. On the name H.A.C.K.E.T.T.
Works for Piano
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Works for Harpsichord
2018:
Chamber Music
2011/19: