Maria Grazia Amoruso is a pianist and organist. Her repertoire ranges from Frescobaldi and Bach to modern composer such as Dallapiccola and Castiglioni.
She received awards from national and international competitions including the Schubert Competition and the Competition of Genève. She was invited by Europa Musica International Festival, Ticino International Music Festival, Medina Theater in Madrid, International Holland Music Sessions and Bergen Festival. She has collaborated with the Associazione Filarmonica Giovanile of Genova, Alma Mahler Chamber Orchestra, University of Siena and the Quartetto di Cremona.
She graduated at the Niccolò̀ Paganini Conservatory in Genova ( as a pianist with Claudio Proietti). Then she was a pupil of Lazar Berman, Jan Marisse Huizing, Oxana Yablonskaja, Alexander Malter, Lev Naumov and Karl Leister. In 2006 she created the International Music Festival of the Island of Capraia , where she was nominated artistic director.
Cooperation with the organist Giorgio Questa was the start for her artistic development. She studied organ , interpretation and analysis of the manuscripts of Italian music of the 16th and 17th centuries under his guidance In 2010 after Giorgio Questa ‘s death, Maria Grazia Amoruso restored the wooden portative organ bequeathed to her in order to promote the use of the portable instrument The wooden and completely mechanical instrument, entirely built by Giorgio Questa in 1960, following a renaissance model, represents a ‘unicum’. It can be assembled and disassembled and is easily transportable. Despite its small size, its phonic structure is that of a 16th century Italian organ.
Maria Grazia Amoruso played the portative organ in the Church of San Rocco in Chiari ( Brescia) . At this link http://www.youtube.com/user/mariagraziaamoruso it is possible to listen to organ music played by Maria Grazia, together with a presentation by Flavio Dassenno, professor of Organology at the Brescia Conservatory.
Her repertoire includes scores for organ and for organ and orchestra by Merulo, Gabrieli, Frescobaldi, Bach , Vivaldi , Marcello, Mozart, Haydn, Haendel.
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