Corrado Cavalli - Festival Finale Recital & Reception

About this event

Recital Program

• Charles Tournemire - Improvisation sur Te Deum

• Olivier Messiaen - Offrande au Saint Sacrement

• Otto Olsson - Adagio in E flat Major

• Anton Bruckner - Scherzo, from Symphony 0 (arr. E. Horn)

• Modest Mussorgsky - Pictures at an Exhibition (arr. C. Cavalli) • Promenade [I]

• Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks

• Gnomus

• Samuel Goldenberg und Schmuÿle

• Promenade II

• Promenade [V]

• Il Vecchio Castello

• Limoges, le marché

• Promenade III

• Catacombæ (Sepulcrum romanum)

• Tuileries (Dispute d’enfants après jeux)

• Cum mortuis in lingua mortua

• Bydło

• The Hut on Fowl’s Legs (Baba-Yagá)

• Promenade IV

• The Great Gate of Kiev

About the Organist | Corrado Cavalli, Chicago (USA, Italy)

Corrado Cavalli, born in Turin, Italy, has served as the organist at St. John Cantius Church in Chicago since June 2015.

He holds two Master’s Degrees—one in Organ and another in Choral Conducting and Composition—from the Conservatorio Statale di Musica “G. Verdi” in Turin, where he studied piano, organ, composition, and choral conducting. Additionally, he pursued a Doctorate in Musical Arts at the University of Illinois and attended master classes at The Summer Academy for Organists in Haarlem, the Netherlands. Following his Master’s degree in organ, he received a grant from the Turin Conservatory for research on Turin’s organ music from 1850 to 1950. Among his accolades, Corrado Cavalli won the Conservatory prize, the Premio Silipo, for achieving summa cum laude in his Master’s in organ, the Concorso Nazionale d’Organo Città di Viterbo (Premio Pinchi) in 2007, and the Brownson Fellowship for his doctoral studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

As an organ soloist, he has performed at numerous international festivals and cathedrals across various countries, including Italy, Austria, France, Germany, Ireland, Norway, the U.K., Poland, Monaco, Slovakia, and the United States. Some of the notable venues where he has performed include the cathedrals in Paris, London, Berlin, and Dublin, as well as in cities like New York, Washington, San Francisco, Pittsburgh, Salt Lake City, Baton Rouge, Milwaukee, and universities such as Princeton, Chicago, and Turin.

Recently, he established a music studio at St. John Cantius Church that focuses on Sacred Music. His scholarly work specializes in Italian organ music from 1850 to 1950, and he has given lectures in both Italy and the United States.

Dr. Cavalli has recorded for several music labels, including Biretta Books, De Montfort, AimHigher, Sony Classical, Elegia Records, and ElleDiCi. He has also published works through Biretta Books in Chicago and the Italian music publishing company Armeiln Musica. Since 2015, he has been a member of the American Guild of Organists, Chicago Chapter.

Suggested Donation

To support the Organ Anniversary Festival, we kindly suggest a donation of $15 for each recital. Donations can be made online through the link here or in person before/after the recital.