Emanuele Cardi is the organist and choirmaster at the church of Santa Maria della Speranza in Battipaglia. The church features a 1996 Ghilardi organ - one of the most famous instruments in the contemporary organ world - and a 2004 Carli organ.

Cardi earned degrees in Organ and Organ Composition, studying with Wijnand van de Pol, graduating with the highest possible honors from the F. Morlacchi Conservatory in Perugia. From the same institution, he also obtained an Academic Diploma, also with the highest possible honors. He has received additional degrees in Choral Music and Choral Conducting, Piano, and Harpsichord.

Involved in the research of proper methods for restoring antique organs, resulting from years of musical study focusing on Neapolitan organ music, Cardifrequently writes articles on the subject for specialist magazines, in addition to lecturing at organ conventions and acting as a consultant on historic restoration as well as the production of new instruments. He teaches summer courses and master classes covering Renaissance and Baroque organ music, and is frequently invited to be a jury member in international organ competitions.

As a concert organist, he has performed throughout Europe, Russia, the United States, Brazil, and Uruguay, playing on some of the world's most famous instruments, with concerts at St. Thomas in New York, in San Francisco, USA; in the cathedrals of Passau, Freiburg, Fulda, Munich, and Bonn, Germany; in Lausanne, Switzerland; London, Edinburgh, UK; Brussels, Belgium; Copenhagen, Denmark; Turku, Finland; Lund, Sweden; Oliwa, Poland; Moscow, Russia; and more. Over the last few years, he has performed numerous tours with the most respected Russian philharmonic institutions, including those of Saint Petersburg, Ufa, Kazan, Yekaterinburg, Perm, Krasnojarsk, Tomsk, Kemerovo, and Irkutsk.

He has often been invited to play a new organ's inaugural concert, as at the Redemptorist Church in Belfast and the First Unitarian Church of Worcester, Massachusetts (USA). He currently teaches at the “A. Corelli” State Conservatory of Messina and records with the La Bottega Discantica and AOC labels.