Organ Recital: Luca Pollastri

Pietro Yon (1866-1943)
Rapsodia Italiana (Italian Patriotic Hymns and Piedmontese Dances)

Pietro Yon
Christmas in Sicily

Pietro Yon
American Rhapsody


Luca Pollastri started his musical studies with Massimo Gabbi and graduated in organ performance and organ composition from the Frescobaldi Conservatory in Ferrara, Italy, where he studied with Antonello Aleotti. He also earned a degree in organ performance  summa cum laude with Francesco Tasini and Vincenzo Ninci. At the Haute École de Musique in Geneva (Switzerland), he earned a Master of Arts in Music Performance, majoring in organ performance. He is currently studying harpsichord at the Frescobaldi Conservatory in Ferrara with Marina Scaioli.

In 2007 he took first place in the first edition of the Albert Dunnig International Organ Prize in Spoleto.

He has given numerous solo organ recitals to positive acclaim from audiences and critics both in Italy and abroad. He has been invited to play in various festivals in France (at Notre-Dame in Paris, on the occasion of the 850th anniversary of the foundation of the Cathedral), in Norway (at the Arctic Cathedral in Tromso), in the United States, United Kingdom (London, Queen’s College Oxford, Sheffield Cathedral and on the famous Schulze Organ of the Doncaster Minster), Sweden, Switzerland (in the Cathedral of Saint-Pierre in Geneva), and Germany, including a performance on the Weingarten “Gabler-Orgel” during the 2006 International Organ Festival, the Riepp “Dreifaltigskeitsorgel” in the Abbey of Ottobeuren and the Rieger Orgel in the Dom of Fulda.

He has recorded modern organ music by various living composers for the EurArte label, and he composes his own organ and choir music.