Alberto Barbetta: Pastorale, for Organ

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Alberto Barbetta graduated magna cum laude with degrees in Organ Performance and Composition under Roberto Antonello at the Arrigo Pedrollo Conservatory of Music in Vicenza, where he received an additional degree from Patrizia Marisaldi in harpsichord. He also holds a degree in Musicology from the University Ca’ Foscari in Venice.
Alberto’s musical interests brought him to the Conservatory of Strasbourg, France, where he specialized further in organ studies with Christophe Mantoux and Aude Heurtematte, and took part in master classes in Italy and abroad with such practitioners as Marie-Claire Alain, Daniel Roth, Naji Hakim, Bernhard Haas, Pier Damiano Peretti, Fausto Caporali, Michael Radulescu, Jürgen Essl, and Javier Artigas Pina. He continues to be recognized in national and international organ competitions: the Franz Zanin Special Prize at the 4th International Organ Competition Historic Organs of Friuli in 2014, First Prize in the City of Napoli 2nd National Organ Competition in 2013, First Prize in the first Camillo Guglielmo Bianchi National Organ Competition in Varzi in 2010, the Presidential Music Prize at the International Prix d’Orgue Bach in Saint-Pierre-lès-Nemours in 2009 and others. As a soloist or as a member of an instrumental or choral group, Alberto concertizes regularly in Italy and across Europe. For the publishing house Armelin Editore (Padova) he has also edited collections of works by historical composers from his native Vicenza. In 2018 Alberto released a CD dedicated to the entire organ works (mostly premiere) of contemporary Italian composer Pierangelo Valtinoni (*1959), entitled Celia. Alberto is currently a Music teacher and the organist of the Church of Santo Stefano in Vicenza.