Paolo ORENI

Paolo Oreni (Treviglio, Italy, 1979) began studying organ and organ composition at the age of 11 with G. W. Zaramella at the Music Institute Gaetano Donizetti in Bergamo. 

In 2000, with the help of scholarships from the Ministry of Culture of Luxembourg, the Municipality and the Cooperative Bank of Treviglio, he continued his musical studies at the National Conservatory of Luxembourg,where he took part in the prestigious Central-European international competition and won his first prize in 2002.

He was influenced by various international masters, in particular by J. P. Imbert and L. Baldecchi Arcuri, with whom he deepened and expanded his organ and piano repertoire. Crucial to his training were the masterclasses with J. Guillou during which he played the big organs of the Tonhalle in Zurich and the Church of St. Eustache in Paris.

He won various international competitions. In June 2004 he received a mention d’honneur at the international competition Ville de Paris, where 60 organists from all over the world participated. He played in a duo with musicians of the Philharmonic Orchestra of the Scala Theater in Milan, in chamber music ensembles and symphonic orchestras (Gaetano Donizetti Orchestra of Bergamo, Symphonic Orchestra laVerdi Milan, Jeune Orchestre of Paris, Orchestra Haydn Bolzano, Symphonic Orchestra Zurich, Bochum Symphony Orchestra, Wiesbaden Symphony Orchestra...), simultaneously maintaining his intensive activity as a concert organist. He regularly performs at the most prestigious international music festivals in Italy, France, Luxembourg, Belgium, Germany, Austria, Netherlands, Great Britain, Denmark, Sweden, Spain, Portugal, Finland, Norway, Albania, Israel, Poland, Romania, Malta, the Czech Republic, and the Canary Islands.

He recorded CDs for the French record label Fugatto on the Bossi Organo of Cremolino, for ORGANpromotion at the Rieger Organ of Reutlingen and for the municipality of Salorno in South Tyrol at the Pirchner Organ. Various concerts have been recorded and transmitted by European radio broadcasters, including the famous Bayerischer Rundfunk at Munich. Since 2006, he has regularly been invited to hold masterclasses on improvisation and repertory playing (from Bach to contemporary music) in the Archdiocese of Munich, at the renowned international Academie des Domes of Altenberg and in various German cities. He is also often invited to serve as a jury member at national and international competitions.

As an organ expert, he works in collaboration with various European organ builders to plan modern pipe organs. Some of these instruments are currently kept in Santa Anastasia Church in Villasanta (Monza), Santa Maria delle Grazie al Naviglio (Milan) and the Church of the Brotherhood of Santa Caterina d’Alessandria in Paternò (Sicily).

On top of that, he designed his personal concert organ, called Wanderer, currently the largest existing transportable organ.