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Marco Lo Muscio Plays Hackett & Emerson

LO MUSCIO INTRODUCE HACKETT/ EMERSON CDs 2008

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MARCO LO MUSCIO

was born in Rome on October 23 1971. He graduated in Piano with full honours (“Cum Laude”) at "L. Refice" academy of music guided by Maestro Tonino Maiorani. He then perfected himself (in three years) with the great pianist Sergio Fiorentino (1927-1998) attaining the Diploma of Advanced Studies at the academy "B. Cristofori". He graduated in Pedagogy ("Cum Laude") to the University of "Rome Tre" (degree thesis on K. Jarrett), and he perfected in organ with Prof. James E. Goettsche (Main Organist of St. Peter’s in Vatican). Marco is specialized in the French, English and American repertoire of the 1900s, in Bach's repertoire and in the adaptations and transcriptions of ancient and modern music (K. Jarrett, A. Pärt, V. Williams, K. Emerson, R. Wakeman, J. Garbarek, St. Hackett, , T. Banks, etc…).
He has held more than 500 concerts for world best festivals in important cathedrals and concert halls like: Oxford “Exeter College”; Russia: “Great Philharmonic Concert Hall Shostakovic” in St. Petersburg; Cathedral, Gnessin Academy and Baptist church in Moscow; Chelyabinsk: “First International Festival Jazz & Pipe organ in Organ Hall 2004” and “International Organ Festival 2005 and 2006”; Vilnius (Lithuania) “Christopher Summer Festival 2004 and 2007”; Tallinn (Estonia)“XVII International Organ Festival”. Finland: Organ summer festivals in Åbo/Turku, Lahti and Mikkeli; Åland XXXI International organ festival; Iceland, Ukraina, Czech Republic, Belgium, Norway (Bergen Organ summer festivals), Sweden (Götheborg Cathedral) , Germany (Munich), Switzerland (Zurich), Poland: “Gdansk(Oliwa) and Frombork Festivals”; Sorø International Music Festival (Denmark), France (Strasburg, S. Räphael, Obernai Cathedral); England (Westminster Cathedral in London, Chester Cathedral, Hull City Hall, Swansea,…);Riga Cathedral (Latvia) “Riga Dom Festival 2006 and 2007”; I.U.C. “Great Hall of Sapienza” in Rome; Festival Pontino and Festival Euro Mediterraneo; in Vatican in the presence of Pope Giovanni Paolo II; Florence (S. Maria of Ricci), La Verna International Organ Festival, Festival of historical organs in Valsesia, Pienza Cathedral, etc…
He has worked with and for international artists such as: Goffredo Petrassi, Mario Luzi, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Giulio Sforza, Alexander Fiseisky, Daniel Zaretsky, ecc…Has recorded for the Vatican Radio, RAITV, SAT2000TV, ROMAUNO. Marco has published five CDs of piano and organ music for "Studio Amadeus" records, with very critical and public success. Marco is the organist of National Canadian and St. Alexander churches in Rome. Is also Artistic Director of the “International Organ Summer Festival in Rome” and “Manziana International Organ Festival”.
Marco is much active also like composer, and these compositions for organ and piano are published from Erreffe Musical Edition. The next plans of Marco preview the collaboration with Keith Emerson and Steve Hackett for two CDs dedicates to their transcriptions (article appeared also on Classic Rock Magazine in London), and for 2008/09 has already been invited to play in Scotland (Edinburgh) in the Cathedral of St. Giles, in Zurich in the Cathedral of S. Peter and Paul, in Copenhagen in the Holmens Kirke (the church Queen of Denmark),in St. Petersburg Maltesian Kapella, in the church of St. Nichola in Prague, in the church of La Madeleine and Le Saint-Esprit in Paris, at Queen College in Oxford and Kings College in Cambridge, etc…
Steve Hackett: Horizons (Arr. Lo Muscio)

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 9/12/2007
Band Website: marcolomuscio.com
Band Members: “I KNOW ABOUT THIS GUY...VERY VERY GOOD AS WELL I'M TOLD".
(Rick Wakeman)

NEWS :
CD "New Horizons" - The music of Steve Hackett (Genesis)
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“What Marco Lo Muscio presents is my ideal of music: entertaining and meaningful. Prog-rock played on pipe organ: why nobody else thought of something so cool before?!? Marco is a keyboards ‘maestro’; his arrangements are warm, and respectful of the original. A real pleasure to listen to, both on CD and live”.
Corrado Canonici
(Director of “World Concert Artists”, Double Bassist, Manager of Keith Emerson & Jethro Tull)

PROGRESSIVE MUSIC AT LONDON WESTMINSTER CATHEDRAL:

REPORTAGE TG ROMA1

Marco Lo Muscio, Organist & Pianist

Influences:
Steve Hackett: Hands of Priestess (Arr. Lo Muscio)

INFLUENCE:
Classic (BACH, Debussy, Ravel, Satie, Messiaen, Jehan Alain, Jean Langlais, Ligeti, Vaughan Williams, ecc...),
Jazz, Progressive Rock (Emerson, Wakeman, Hackett, Genesis, King Crimson, Van Der Graft Generator, Reinassence...);
Michel Colombier, Jan Garbarek, Keith Jarrett, Ludovico Einaudi, Wim Mertens, Chick Corea, Friedrich Gulda, Nikolaj Kapustin, Arvo Pärt, Ennio Morricone, Sakamoto, Howard Shore, Philip Glass,Dead Can Dance, Bjork, Graham Fitkin, Aaron Jay Kernis, Billy Cowie, Rautaavara, etc...

KEITH EMERSON: FANFARE FOR THE COMMON MAN (Arr. Lo Muscio)

LIST OF MY SOME RARE CONTEMPORARY TRANSCRIPTIONS:

STEVE HACKETT:

From "Bay of Kings":
n° 1 Bay of Kings
n° 3 Kim
n° 6 Petropolis
n° 8 Cast Adrift
n° 9 Horizons
n° 15 Skye Boat Song

From ”Momentum":
n° 1 Cavalcanti
n° 2 The Sleeping Sea
n° 5 A bed, a chair, a guitar
n° 9 Variation on a theme by Chopin

From “Voyage of the Acolyte”:
n°2 Hands of Priestess Part I
n°7 The Lovers

From “Guitar Noir”:
n° 10 Walking Away from Rainbows

KEITH EMERSON:

From “Keith Emerson - Emerson Lake & Palmer":
- Clotho from “The 3 Fates”

From “Keith Emerson - Emerson Lake & Powell":
- Touch and Go
- Step Aside

“Keith Emerson – Emerson plays Emerson”:
- Interlude

From “Keith Emerson – Pictures at an Exhibition”:
- Promenade I and II
- The Sage
- Old Castle & Blues Variations

From “Keith Emerson - Tarkus”:
- Part II “Stones of Years

From “Keith Emerson - Trilogy”:
- Prelude and Fugue before Endless Enigma
- The Endless Enigma Part II

From “Keith Emerson – Works Vol. I “:
- Jazz Fantasy from “Piano Concert n.1”
- Fantasy on Fanfare for the Common Man by A. Copland

TONY BANKS:

- Firth of Fifth

RICK WAKEMAN:

- From "Six Wives of Henry VIII":
n° 1 “Chatherine of Aragon”
n° 4 “Jane Seymour”

ARVO PÄRT:

- Fratres from string quartet
- Summa from string quartet
- Für Alina from piano
- Spiegel im spiegel from cello and piano
- "Es sang vor langen Jahren"

JAN GARBAREK :

- Molde Canticle Part I & Part IV
- The Creek
- Parce mihi Domine da "Officium"

KEITH JARRETT:

- Adagio (Final) Part I from "Scala Concert"
- Over the rainbow from "Scala Concert"

- Blues from "Paris Concert"
- The Wind from "Paris Concert"

- Adagio and Blues from "Roma Concert"
- Danny boy from "Roma Concert"

- Heartland from "Bregenz Concert"

- Song: “The Cure”

- Staircase part III

- From "Book of Ways": Pieces n° 9, 15, 17, 18.

From "Dark intervals":
- Hymn (n° 2) Americana (n° 3)

From "The Melody at night":
- I loves Porgy
- Meditation

- From “Invocations”: Part V – Recognition

- From “Spirits”: Piece n° 15

- Dance from "Violin Sonata"

BRAD MEHLDAU:

- Bard from "Elegiac cycle"

LENNIE TRISTANO:
- Requiem in memory of Charlie Parker

CHICK COREA:

- Star Island from "Voyage"
- Picture n°8 from "Piano Improvisation"
- Cristal silence

RYUICHI SAKAMOTO:

From "BTTB":
- Energy flow
- Aqua
- Sonatine

RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS:

- Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
- From "Job-a masque for dancing": Part n° 7
- Prelude from "Fantasy Quintet

BJÖRK:

- Overture from "Selma songs"
- Song from "Post": "You've been flirting again"
- Song from "Debut": "Human behaviour"

BILLY COWIE:

- "La Chanson bien douce": n. 3, 5, 22.

DEAD CAN DANCE:

- "De Profundis" and "Ascensions" from "Spleen and ideal"

HOWARD SHORE:
- Pieces from "The Lord of the Rings"

...and also my original music edit by:
ERREFFE MUSICAL EDITION:

Please contact me for concert propositions, or artistic projects, or if you have interest in my music, or transcriptions, or CDs. Thanks!
Sounds Like:

Keith Emerson: Touch & Go (Arr. Lo Muscio)

Keith Emerson: Clotho (Arr. Lo Muscio)

Reportage TG RAI 3

Record Label: Drycastle Records
Type of Label: Indie

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"New Horizons" - The Music of Steve Hackett - new CD

NEW HORIZONS: Il primo album italiano dedicato alla musica di Steve Hackett, eseguita al pianoforte a coda e all'organo a canne. Le musiche sono state adattate, ed eseguite, dal pianista di fama inter...
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