Carlo Maria Barile

Carlo Maria Barile was born in Ferrara in 1989. He studied piano and drums at Il Pentagramma music school in Bari. In 2007 he received a scholarship to attend the Five Week Summer Performance Program at Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. After completing his secondary education with top marks, he graduated with honours in organ performance and composition from the Niccolò Piccinni Conservatory in Bari, where he studied with Margherita Quarta.

In 2011 he completed the Konzertexamen in organ at the Hochschule für Musik in Detmold, Germany, studying with Tomasz Adam Nowak and receiving the grade sehr gut. In 2016 he obtained a second-level master’s degree with honours in early music at the San Pietro a Majella Conservatory in Naples under Antonio Florio. He continued his studies with teachers including Thomaskirche organist Ullrich Böhme, Naji Hakim and Ton Koopman.

His solo appearances as a classical organist and harpsichordist and as a jazz pianist have taken him to Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola at Jazz at Lincoln Center, Steinway Hall and St. Peter’s Church in New York City; Toledo Cathedral and the Iglesia del Salvador in Granada, Spain; the Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari; Notre-Dame-des-Champs in Paris; and the Basilica of Valère in Sion, Switzerland. He has also performed at the Thomaskirche in Leipzig, the Lambertikirche in Münster and the Markuskirche in Munich.

As a continuo player with Cappella Neapolitana, conducted by Antonio Florio, he has performed at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Muziekcentrum De Bijloke in Ghent, Belgium, and the auditorium at Castel Sant’Elmo in Naples. At the Royal Chapel of the Treasure of San Gennaro in Naples, he took part in the first modern performance of Giovanni Maria Trabaci’s Passio Domini Nostri Jesu Christi secundum Matthaeum, conducted by Rosario Totaro.

He played harmonium in Rossini’s Petite Messe solennelle with the Ghislieri Choir & Consort, conducted by Giulio Prandi, at St. Paul’s Pro-Cathedral in Valletta, Malta. Organised by the Teatru Manoel, the performance marked the 150th anniversary of Rossini’s death. His teaching work has included piano and music theory at Il Pentagramma in Bari.