Marco Lo Muscio

Italian organist, pianist and composer Marco Lo Muscio (born in Rome, 1971) lives and works especially in Italy, Europe and Russian Federation.

The core of career of Lo Muscio is based on the compositions and transcriptions in the progressive and new contemporary style (Steve Hackett, Keith Emerson, Rick Wakeman, Keith Jarrett, Jan Garbarek, etc...)

Biography

Marco Lo Muscio was born in Rome, Italy.

Marco Lo Muscio studied piano, and organ at the “L. 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 University of "Roma Tre" (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 prof. James Edward Goettsche.

Since 2004 he is the art director of the "International Organ Summer Festival in Rome",Italy, where internationally acclaimed organists performed; inter alia Roger Fisher, Martin Baker, Daniel Zaretsky, Aivars Kalejs, John Hackett, Pär Lindh, Jakob Lorentzen, Andre Uibo, Kevin Bowyer, Roger Sayer, Alessandto Bianchi, Michael Eckerle, etc...

Since 2008 Lo Muscio collaborates with John Hackett and Steve Hackett (Genesis) . .

Lo Muscio make part and works for the North Star Media musical society in Detroit (USA).

Works

Concerts as organist and pianist in Cathedrals and Concert Halls in Europa (Italy, Vatican, France, Germany, England, Scotland, Wales, Spain, Portugual, Switzerland, Ukraine, Czech Republic, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Iceland, etc...) and Russian Federation.
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Interview and services in TV and Radio:

- BBC Radio and TV

- RAI TV

- SAT TV2000

- Vatican Radio

- 74TV Russia

- Amolini TV Russia

- Roma Uno TV

Performances of Marco Lo Muscio's music from international musicians:

- Christopher Herrick

- John Hackett

- Stephen Farr

- Kevin Bowyer

- John Scott

- Alessandro Bianchi

- Massimo Nosetti

- Michael Eckerle

- Roger Sayer

- Fredrik Sixten

- Kevin Duggan

- Ekaterina Melnikova

- Christopher Maxim

- Gunnar Petersen-Øverlein

- Luca Magni

- Oksana Sinkova

Recordings

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

- “Rabid Dogs...Opening Themes” (2010)

- “Dante: Paradise, Divine Comedy Book III” (2010)

- “Homer: Iliad” (2010)

- “Tales of Edgar Allan Poe” (2010)

- “Boccaccio: Decameron Part I” (2012)

- “A Flower Full of Stars" - a Tribute to The Flower Kings.(2011)

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


- "Marco Lo Muscio Plays Marco Lo Muscio" (2007)

- "New Horizons: The Music of Steve Hackett" (2008)

- "Dark and Light": Progressive originals and transcriptions (2009)

- "The Book of Bilbo and Gandalf" (2010) with Steve Hackett, John Hackett and Pär Lindh

- "The Mystic and Progressive Music" (2011)

- "The Mystic and Esoteric Organ" (DVD 2009)

Recording Projects with Italian label Studio Amadeus:

- Piano Visions (1999)
(Music by Fauré, Liszt, Alain, Messiaen)

- Organ Visions (2000)
(Music by Bach, Langlais, De Machaut, Pärt, Alain, Dowland, Tallis, Gibbons,Vaughan Williams)

- Organ Vision II (2002)
(Music by Strauss, Steel, Howells, Sløgedal, Bourgeois, Satie, Tournemire, Preston, Weaver, Purcell, Henry VIII, Walton)

- American Piano Music (2001)
(Music by Lo Muscio, Corea, Mehldau, Jarrett, Emerson, Tristano, Gershwin, Hackett, Banks)

- Spohr, Schumann and Schuber: Chamber Music (2001) with Amelia Versiglioni and Simone Scarcella

Compositions

Works for Pipe Organ

2007:

Ecstatic Meditations (Homage to Messiaen – Homage to Satie – Homage to Jarrett – Homage to Emerson)

Blue Prelude

Toccata on the name AGBA "Angel's Dance"

Welsh Fantasy

Organ Visions ("Gothic Visions from Perotinus Time" – "Celestial Visions from Beyond – Gandalf's Dream")

2008:

Mystic Pieces (n.1 "The Mystic Bourdon – n.2 "Mystic Alleluya in memory of Messiaen" – n.3 "Cantus Mysticus pro Arvo Pärt" – n.4 "Mystic Dance of Fire – To Robert Fripp")

New Litanies in memory of Jehan Alain – "Gandalf's Dance"

Choral and Prog Dance – "To Keith Emerson"

2009:

Paradiso: Epilogue: "Towards the Stars"

Towards Rivendell – Gandalf's Meditation (Commissioned from Alessandro Bianchi)

2010:

Visions from Minas Tirith – The White Tree (Poem for Organ)

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

Concert Variations on Greensleeves (Commissioned from Christopher Herrick)

2011:

Red Pedal Solo

White Prelude – Homage to Boccaccio

Basilicas and Churches in Rome (Poem for Organ) (Commissioned from Michael Eckerle)

Visions from Rohan – The Golden Town (Poem for Organ)

In Memoriam Messiaen (Ecstatic Meditation & Mystic Alleluja)

Vocalise (To my mother)

Pan (Fantasy on "Giulio Sforza" name)

Works for Grand Piano

2007:

Blue Prelude

Night Song – To Bill Evans

2008:

Gymnopédie n.0 – To Erik Satie

Dark and Light – "The Book of Gandalf" (Poem for Piano)

2009:

Meditation on "Horizons" – To Steve Hackett

Blue Ostinato – To Keith Jarrett

Paradiso: Prologue (Poem for Piano)

Medieval Melodies (n.1 "Theoden's Meditation" – n.2 "The knight of Rohan")

Galadriel – Elf Song

The Hobbit Book – Bilbo and Gandalf (Poem for Piano)

2010:

Iliade: Book III and Book XVI (from Omero)

2011:

The Lament for Gandalf (Poem for Piano)

Works for Flute

2011:

Bilbo's Dream (dedicated to John Hackett)

Gymnopédie n.0 (To Erik satie)

Vocalise

External links

• personal website

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