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The Italian organist, Massimiliano Sanca, began studying piano at the age of 6; later moving on to the study of the organ at the Brescia State Conservatory of Music. In 1996 he received his diploma in Organ and Organ Composition with full marks, under the guidance of Maestro Roberto Zarpellon, of Maestro T. Ziliani and finished with Maestro Giorgio Benati at the Conservatorio “L. Marenzio” of Brescia. He has participated in numerous organ interpretation courses (Michael Radulescu, Alfred Mitterhofer, Harald Vogel) and performance practice of Renaissance and Baroque music. In 1996 he won the competition to enter the prestigious Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst, which later became the Universität für Musik of Vienna (Austria) and from 1996 to 2001 he continued studies in “Orgelkonzertfach” (Concert organ department), under the direction of Professor Alfred Mitterhofer and then with Professor Roman Summereder. Together with the organ studies, he studied harpsichord and basso continuo with Professor Augusta Campagne and also took master-classes in Chorus Direction and Orchestra.
Massimiliano Sanca has also played with important vocal and instrumental ensembles and has been collaborating with the Chamber Orchestra L. da Ponte and the Choir Reale Corte Armonica C. Cornaro with which he performed works such as Jephte by G. Carissimi; Messiah of George Frideric Handel; Mass in B minor (BWV 232), Magnificat (BWV 243), and cantatas by J.S. Bach; Krönungsmesse, Große Credo-Messe, Requiem by W.A. Mozart, and Messa D 167 by F. Schubert, under the direction of Masters such as H. Winking, R. Zarpellon, Michael Radulescu. As a soloist he has to his credit numerous concerts in Italy and abroad playing for important festivals in Italy and Europe, recording for the radios WDR and RAI. From 1996 to 2009 he was the organist on the G. Antegnati organ (1581) at the church of San Giuseppe in Brescia, while he is still the performer of the A. Bonatti (1760) and I. Colzani (2007) organs of the Parish and Sanctuary in Vallio Terme (BS).
Massimiliano Sanca has made CD recordings on historical and modern organs of particular national and international interest, interpreting repertoires ranging from the Renaissance to the late Baroque. For many years he was Artistic Director of “Summer Music” in Vallio Terme. From 2001 to 2008 he was Director of the Valsabbina Chamber Orchestra. For many years he has been the Director of the La Valle Choir of Vallio Terme, with whom he is often invited to perform at various concert events. He teaches musical education and choral singing at the Parish School of Ss. Filippo and Giacomo in Gavardo (Brescia). He was invited to play in the Vatican State at St. Peter’s Basilica and gave concerts on the great Mascioni organ at the Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music in Rome. |
