Emanuele Cardi is organist and choirmaster at the Ghilardi organ (1996) and Carli organ (2004) of St. Maria della Speranza’s church and Sanctuary in Battipaglia, two of the best known instruments in the international contemporary organ-building school.
Dr. Cardi received his diploma with full marks and honors in Organ Performance and Organ Composition with Wijnand van de Pol at the “F. Morlacchi” Conservatory in Perugia, where, as best graduate, he was awarded a scholarship and a concert offered by the Conservatory in collaboration with the “Elena Marino” Music Association; he then studied Baroque and Renaissance organ repertoire as a post graduate student.
He got also diplomas in Harpsichord, Piano and Choir conducting.
Interested in the restoration of ancient organs, he has been specifically studying 16th- and 17th-century Neapolitan organ-building and organ music for many years.
He has written several articles for music & industry journals, participated in conferences and served as a consultant in the restoration of historical organs. As an organist, he has concertized in all Europe, Russia, United States and South America, playing some of the most famous Europeans organs.
He also performed several inaugural concerts, among which the one for the restoration of the great Hillis Organ at the Redemptorists’ Church in Belfast and the Aeolian-Skinner organ of the First Unitarian Church in Worcester (MA) United States
.He has recorded CDs for “La Bottega Discantica”, Motette and AOC.
He teaches at the Statal Music Conservatory in Messina (Sicily).