DESCRIPTION:
Gabriele Studer plays the Passacaglia and Fugue BWV 582 by Johann Sebastian Bach at the great organ of Canterbury Cathedral, UK.

www.gabrielestuder.altervista.org

GABRIELE STUDER, born 15th January 1982, in Alba (Italy), studied organ and organ composition, then he became a student of Jean-Paul Imbert at the “Schola Cantorum” in Paris, where he obtained the “Diplôme de Concert” with the accreditation: Très bien à l’unanimité et félicitations du jury.
He obtained also the Diplôme d'Études Musicales” at the “Conservatoire à rayonnement régional” di Versailles.
He studied organ improvisation at the “Conservatoire National de Région de Saint-Maur” in Paris in the class of Pierre Pincemaille and has attended a large number of specialization masterclasses with Jean-Paul Imbert (Alpe d’Huez / France); with Massimo Nosetti (Sicily / Italy), with Olivier Latry (Cuneo/ Italy) and with David Briggs (Roma / Italy).
He started a brilliant concert activity as a soloist and also with different musicians, which allowed him to perform in different countries, including Italy, France, Begium, Switzerland and The UK. He has collaborated with the “G. F. Pressenda” Orchestra and with the Chamber Orchestra of Guarene d’Alba directed by Paolo Paglia. He is very interested in transcription, having completed a large number of arrangements for organ of orchestral operas, which have already been performed both in Italy and abroad. His transcription of the famous symphonic poem “In the Steppes of Central Asia” by Alexander Borodin has been published by The Edizioni Armelin Musica of Padua.
He records a CD dedicated at the music of the Italian composer Enrico Pasini.
He is currently the official organist at the Cristo Re Church in Alba.