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Luca Gorla

Biography

Luca Gorla started his musical studies at the age of six. He first studied at the Conservatory of Como, than graduated in Organ in the class of E.

Viccardi at the Conservatory of Parma. He subsequently achieved the post-gradum in Organ under the guidance of R. Marini at the Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music in Rome. He has attended several masterclasses given by teachers of the calibre of: F. Blanc, F. Di Lernia, L. Ghielmi, M. Kjellgren, A. Liebig, L. Lohmann, G. Parodi, M. Radulescu, Kl. Schnorr, Ch. Stembridge, J-C. Zehnder. He also followed the “Tuning courses on historical keyboard instruments” held by W. Chinaglia in 2014 and 2016. He has given numerous organ concerts, appearing in some important concert Festivals as: Kirchenmusik (Bachstadt Ohrdruf), Thielemann-Orgel Konzerte (Gräfenhain), Pontremoli Organ Festival, Percorsi d’organo in provincia di Como, Autunno organistico nel Lodigiano, Musica intorno al Fiume, Festival organistico del Salento, Angelus (Cathedral of Como), Rassegna Giuseppe Zelioli (Lecco), Omaggio a Luigi Toja (Rho), Pietre Sonore (Genova), Itinerari Organistici “G. Piombini” (Bologna), ArmoniosaMente (Modena), Bianchi Castelli d’aria (Pesaro), Il Suono delle Pietre (Canosa di Puglia). In September 2019 he won the 3rd Prize in the first "Fondazione Friuli" international organ competition for young organists. In March 2025 he won the 2nd Prize in the "Historical Organs of Basso Friuli" competition. He is a founding member of the association "Accademia Organistica Lombarda" (APS) and artistic director of the "Festival Organistico delle Province Lombarde”. He is Titular Organist at the "SS. Pietro e Paolo” parish church in Rovello Porro (G. Steinmann organ, 1982). He teaches organ and organ improvisation at the Diocesan School of Music and Sacred Liturgy of Como. He holds the “Ear Training” chair and one of the Organ chairs at the Pontifical Ambrosian Institute of Sacred Music in Milan.

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