GABRIELE DAMIANI

ACCOMPANIST

 

Previously Chapel Organist and Music Teacher at St Edward’s, Oxford, Gabriele Damiani has served as Director of Music at Our Lady’s, Abingdon (OLA), where he led a team of fifteen Visiting Music Teachers and oversaw the school’s full academic and practical music programme.

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He studied at the Verdi Conservatoire in Turin, Italy, before continuing his training with Anne Marsden Thomas at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. As part of his Bachelor of Music studies, he attended masterclasses with P. Hurford, A. Marcon, L. Lohmann and J. van Oortmerssen, and undertook extensive training in counterpoint, conducting, basso continuo and accompaniment. During his final year, he was appointed Church Music Scholar at the Royal Hospital, Chelsea, and subsequently served as Organ Scholar at Westminster RC Cathedral.

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An ARCO prize-winner, Gabs has been a Royal College of Organists Accredited Organ Teacher since 2012, teaching in the Oxford area and specialising in practice techniques and Baroque repertoire. A visiting tutor at the University of St Andrews and co-founder of the Accademia Organistica in Trieste, Italy, he maintains an active performance schedule across the UK and internationally