Organ Recital: Corrado Cavalli (Chicago, Illinois)

Healey Willan (1880-1968)
Epithalame

Searle Wright (1918-2004)
Lyric Rhapsody

Leo Sowerby (1895-1968)
Comes Autumn Time


Corrado Cavalli, a native of Turin, Italy, has been the organist of St. John Cantius Church in Chicago since June 2015. He studied at the National Conservatory “Giuseppe Verdi” in Turin, where he was awarded two master’s degrees, one in organ ( summa cum laude), and another in choral conducting and choral composition ( summa cum laude). He attended masterclasses by noted teachers at the Haarlem International Academy for Organists in the Netherlands. Among his several honors and prizes, he won the 12th National Organ Competition “Città di Viterbo” (Pinchi Prize), and he has been recently awarded the Brownson Fellowship for his Doctoral Studies at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana. As organ soloist he has performed in many international festivals, cathedrals and concert halls in Italy, Austria, France, Germany, Ireland, Norway, U.K, Poland, Monaco, Slovakia and in the USA. He has also played with such orchestras as the Italian National Symphonic Orchestra of the Rai, the Ensemble Orchestral des Alpes et de la Mer, and the Philharmonic Orchestra of Turin. He has recorded for Biretta Books, De Montfort, AimHigher, Sony Classical, Elegia Records, and ElleDiCi music labels, and he has published for Biretta Books in Chicago and for the Italian edition, “Armeiln musica.” As a musicologist and professor of music, he has given master-classes and lectures on Italian organ music literature, with a focus on the repertoire of the Romantic and Contemporary periods, and with a particular emphasis on the music of Torino. He is a member of the American Guild of Organists.