Gabriele Terrone - Eccles Organ Festival concert

The 2020-2021 Eccles Organ Festival concludes on Sunday, February 14th with organist Gabriele Terrone. Dr. Terrone has served as Organist and Assistant Director of Music at the Cathedral of the Madeleine in Salt Lake City, Utah since 2014. In this role, he is the principal musical assistant of the Cathedral Director of Music, playing the organ for the Cathedral’s daily liturgies. He also serves on the music faculty of the Madeleine Choir School, assisting with the training and preparation of the choristers, and as Director of the Eccles Organ Festival.

Gabriele Terrone was born in Rome (Italy), where he also received most of his musical education, obtaining the Diploma in Organ and Composition from the Italian State Conservatory under the guidance of Juan Paradell Solé. Afterwards, he attended a three-year postgraduate program in organ improvisation under the direction of Theo Flury in the Pontifical Institute for Sacred Music in Roma and the Hochschüle für Musik in Luzern (Switzerland). From the latter institution he was awarded the Certificate of Advanced Studies in Organ Improvisation. Having graduated with honors in Mathematics from La Sapienza University of Rome, he earned a Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Padova and has been working as a researcher at the Instituto Superior Técnico in Lisbon (Portugal). Before coming to Utah, he served at the Papal Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore in Roma, first as Assistant Organist then as Titular Organist beginning in November 2011.