Percussion, Christian Benning

Percussion: Christian Benning, multi-percussionist, studied in Munich and the USA and is on tour worldwide as a soloist, in various formations (e.g. Christian Benning Percussion Group) and as a guest with renowned orchestras. In addition to his musical work, he is pursuing an interdisciplinary project with Dirk Nowitzki’s mentor Holger Geschwindner on the question of whether basketball training can be optimised by incorporating rhythmic elements.

Emanuele Carlo Vianelli

Emanuele Carlo Vianelli has been titular organist at Milan Cathedral since 2005. In his younger years he went through the school of Enzo Corti, Wilhelm Krumbach, Arturo Sacchetti and Lionel Rogg. As a concert organist, Vianelli is particularly appreciated by audiences and critics as an interpreter of the romantic and contemporary organ repertoire. At the beginning of the IOOF film from Milan Cathedral, however, he bows to Bach with his Fugue in G major BWV 577.

Marco Lo Muscio

Marco Lo Muscio is equally at home on the organ as on the concert grand piano. He has written compositions for both instruments, which are performed by renowned colleagues such as Thomas Trotter, David Briggs and others. Marco gives concerts all over Europe and the USA – but also in his Roman home, which he has transformed into a “chamber of curiosities” with many antiques and curiosities, where you can listen to him in private concerts.

Johannes Skudlik

The Conductor, Johannes Skudlik got to know Jean Guillou as a student in Paris and was on friendly terms with him for many years. He conducted the French premiere of the “Révolte” in Saint-Eustache in Paris after facilitating the German premiere in Landsberg am Lech, from where he has realised his musical projects as a concert organist and in European festivals for over 40 years.