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Aurelio
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Aurelio Porfiri is Music Director at The Church of Santa Susanna, the American Church in Rome, where he directs the Santa Susanna Singers.
Currently, Signor Porfiri is assistant organist in the Vatican City Vicariate at Saint Peter's Basilica where he is in charge of the Holy Father's weekly audience. Born in Rome in 1968, he studied organ, piano, composition, choral conducting, Gregorian chant and polyphony with Giuseppe Agostini, Nazario Carlo Bellandi, Domenico Bartolucci (former director of the Sistine Chapel Choir), Alberto Meoli and Francesco Luisi. He has a degree in choral music from the Conservatorio de San Pietro a Maielle in Naples. Previous positions in Rome included the Basilica of Santa Maria in Trastevere, the Church of Santa Maria dell'Orto and the Basilica of San Crisogono in Trastevere. Sig. Porfiri is a composer of considerable renown. His works have been commissioned and sung for the liturgical programs of Vatican Radio. As a composer, we writes in a wide range of forms, including oratorios, Masses, motets and hymns in Italian and English. From an interview on Vatican Radio (March 7, 2000) came a series of four programs on sacred music with experts in the field, which Sig. Porfiri hosted. He also contributes articles to the journals La Vita in Cristo e nella Chiesa and Liturgia, L'Emanuele, La nuova alleanza and Liturgia; and has collaborated with various publishers, like Edizioni San Paolo, Città Nuova and Hortus Conclusus. Sig. Porfiri is a Knight of the Order of Saint George, member the Center for Liturgical Action (Rome) and member of the Association of Professors of Liturgy (Italy). CanticaNOVA Publications is honored and proud to offer several of Sig. Aurelio Porfiri's works in this and future catalogues:
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