Omar Caputi - Organ

Native of Turin, Italy, Omar Caputi is an international concert artist, composer and director. He studied at the “G. F. Ghedini” Conservatory in Cuneo, where he graduated with honours in Organ and Organ Composition. He also studied French baroque music with Françoise Delor and Renè Saorgin, and romantic and modern repertoire with Daniel Roth and Lionel Rogg.

Mr. Caputi is the co-titular organist of the prestigious Zanin organ at Santa Rita Sanctuary in Turin. He has performed extensively in Italy, Switzerland, Germany and France, receiving unanimous appreciation of audiences and critics alike. His debut as a composer was in 1998, with the public performances of “Alleluia” for choir and organ in Sant’Ignazio Church in Rome and in the St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican. His transcriptions of Bach’s Brandenburg concertos have been executed in Paris (Saint Eustache), Los Angeles (Chrystal Cathederal), Leipzig (Gewandhouse), Montreux, and Turin. Caputi’s works have been printed by the Italian publishing house Carrara. In 2000, the French BNL recorded a CD with his organ transcriptions of Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos (BWV 1048 and 1051) and Handel’s Concerti Grossi Op. 3. Omar Caputi is a founder of “Gruppo Barocco” at the University of Turin. He is artistic director of two music festivals: “Risonanze barocche” in Turin and “Festival Internazionale di Musica Sacra” in Gallo d’Alba, Italy. He teaches Organ and Composition at the Music School “L. Rocca” in Alba, Italy.