He studied with M° Enzo Corti in Milanand got and Organ and Composition Diplomaat the “Luca Marenzio” Conservatoriumin Brescia. He also graduated inMusicology at the SPFM in Cremona-Pavia University with a graduation thesison »Marcel Duprè and the art of improvisation«. He took part to several specializationcourses in interpretation with NigelAllcoat, Ewald Kooiman, Piet Kee, DanielRoth, Gillian Weir and Naji Hakim. Lateron he specialized in the art of improvisationwith: Nigel Allcoat, Jurgen Essl, PeterPlanyavsky e Naji Hakim. He also wentthoroughly into the study of Music Analysiswith Marcel Bitsch.He regularly performs in Europe, theUnited States and Canada on some of themost important instruments including the:Brucknerorgel della Skt. Florian Stiftsbasilikain Skt. Florian, Linz (A); Domkirche,Eisenstadt (A); St. Clement’s Church,Rathgeb Memorial Organ at Deer ParkUnited Church e St. James Anglican Cathedralin Toronto (CDN); Église Unie St.James, Montreal (CDN); Église Chalmers-Wesley, Quebec City (CDN); Kollegiorgel,Schwyz (CH); Kaiser-Wilhelm-GedächtnisKirche, Berlin (D); Ottobeuren Stiftsbasilika(D); Ulmer Muenster (D); St. Jakobs-Kirche, Rothenburg o.d. Tauber (D); SaintSaviour’s Church, Jerusalem (IL); Bialystok’sCathedral (PL); Olsztyn’s Cathedral(PL); Temple Church, Southwark Cathedraland St. Paul’s Cathedral in London(UK); King’s College Chapel, Cambridge(UK); Basilica of the National Shrine ofImmaculate Conception in WashingtonD.C. (USA); St. Thomas (Episcopal)Church,St. Patrick’s Cathedral e St. Bartholomew’sChurch in New York City (USA);Saint Paul’s United Methodist Church,Rochester MI (USA); Hill Auditorium,University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (USA);Santuario della Verna (I); Basilica di S. Vitale,Ravenna (I); Duomo di Messina (I).He is invited to hold masterclasses andlectures for several important musical institutionsaround Europe and North Americaas Trinity Hall (Cambridge University,UK) and the Royal Canadian College ofOrganists, Toronto (CDN).Fagiani plays Fagiani | 23In 2008 he was appointed as GuestOrganist of the Franciscan Shrine of LaVerna, Arezzo. He combines this positionwith the one as Titular Organist of theS.Ambrogio Provostal Church in Merate,Lecco, where he got the appointment in2010. In the same year he began the collaborationas organist with the Orchestra Sinfonicadi Milano “Giuseppe Verdi”, withwhich he has recorded also for the Italian’sstate broadcasting company Radio Tre Rai.With the orchestra, in the 10th anniversaryof the 9/11 tragedy he performed Britten’sWar Requiem at the Teatro alla Scala inMilan under the baton of Xian Zhang.His compositions entail pieces for organ,chamber groups, orchestra and choirand are published by Carrara, Turris andDelatour France. His organ works, commissionedby several European and NorthAmerican Organ Festivals, are in the repertoireof some of the most celebrated artistslike John Scott, Stephen Tharp, TorstenLaux, Johannes Geffert, Carol Williams,Robert Kovacs and Massimo Nosetti. Heis also the author of a renowned series oforgan transcriptions.With the CD Crucis Christi MonsAlvernae, recorded with the choir of LaVerna’s friars, obtained the “Recordingof the year 2009” acknowledgement fromAlias, cultural review of the National newspaperIl Manifesto, by the director of thecontemporary music review Konsequenz.
