Giuseppe Rigliaco

Giuseppe Rigliaco (b. 1994) is the resident organist of the historical Organ of the Sanctuary of Madonna di Casaluce in the city of Caserta, where he lives.

After graduating in piano with honors in the class of the M° Angela Guida, he specialized in organ at the State Conservatory of Music “Nicola Sala” of Benevento under Maestro Mauro Castaldo. During his formation, he has the opportunity to study with a scholarship at a Dutch conservatory in Maastricht with the M° Hans Leenders and M° Marcel Verheggen. He then perfected his skills during masterclasses with numerous international renowned concert performers: M. Imbruno, E. Viccardi, D. Mariano, S. Retaux, R. Canali and S. Sangiovanni. Active on the Italian territory, he is repeatedly protagonist of important events in Southern Italy and he has performed for prestigious music festivals and associations like ‘Alessandro Scarlatti’ of Napoli and the ‘Reate Festival’ of Rieti. He participated at Piano City Napoli presenting the complete three sonatas without opus numbers of Beethoven. His name was in different contests such as: Organ Festival in Campinola di Tramonti, Organ Festival of associations Anna Jervolino and the review Convivio Armonio of Area Arte, in which we can find the most active organists of the Italian territory as protagonist. He won the 1st prize at the Fanny Mendelssohn International Online Competition 2023, the prize ‘honourable mention’ of ‘‘2nd International Music Competition Molopolska 2022 Online’’ and the 1st Prize at the III Musical performance competition of the Cultural Association ‘’Mille Note’’. Finalist of the competition: Concorso Organistico Int. “Fiorella Benetti Brazzale” in 2021. He has been mentioned several times in Italian newspapers “il Mattino”’, ‘”l Corriere di Caserta” and “Roma”. Promoter of various musical activities aimed at enhancing historical instruments and Italian musical literature among which we mention the concert ‘Omaggio a Perosi’ during the 150th anniversary of birth and the project ‘’Concerto d’Organo: la scuola italiana’’ recognized abroad by IIC. In addition, he is now committed in a project of research and recording music of composers of the Neapolitan School. Also, he graduated in aerospace engineering at the University Luigi Vanvitelli in his hometown.