ENZO PEDRETTI

Enzo Pedretti, organist from Brescia (Italy), was born in 2003. He began studying piano at an early age with the Professors Eva Frick Galliera, Riccardo Bettini and Bruno Strada.

He then entered the State Music Conservatory “Luca Marenzio” of Brescia in the class of Organ and Organ Composition of Professor Giorgio Benati, to whom he owed a solid education that allowed him to be admitted with the highest marks to the first three-year academic course. Under Maestro Benati’s guidance, he was presented in 2019 at the International Organ Competition of Tricesimo (UD)-President of Jury Olivier Latry who is titular Organist in the Cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris, and Organ Professor at the “Conservatoire Superieur”- and won the First Prize of Category A of the Competition with the subsequent award of a Special Prize as the youngest competitor (15 years old). In the meantime, he attended the courses of the linguistic high school, perfecting himself in English, German and French and getting his Diploma in 2022. He took part as a performer in several Masterclasses in order to deepen some aspects of the ancient and modern repertoire with many Professors including Koopman, Ghielmi, Marini, Caporali, Latry, Van Oosten, Still and Steuber. Particularly important was his encounter with Professor Wolfgang Seifen.
He has partecipated with various programmes in the performances of the opera omnia for organ by Johann Sebastian Bach promoted by the class of Professor Giorgio Benati in cooperation with the Music Universities of Brescia and Castelfranco Veneto (TV) with concerts given in the Cathedral of Asolo (TV), Brescia, Cremona, Verona and in the auditorium of the Music University of Darfo (BS). Despite his young age he has already held several concerts in various cities both in Italy and abroad including Bologna, Milan, Genoa, Cremona, Bolzano, Brescia, Bergamo, Albenga, Loreto, Asolo, Carlovac (Croatia), Regensburg, Kehlheim, Hamburg (Germany), Innsbruck, Braunau (Austria).
He already has an extensive repertoire ranging from Ancient to Modern, including Bach’s Six Trio Sonatas, the Third Part of the Clavierübung and some of the most significant works by Liszt, Reubke, Reger, Widor, Tournemire, Vierne, Dupré, Messiaen, Duruflé, Guillou, Demessieux, Escaich.