Leonardo Ciampa

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Leonardo Ciampa (born January 17, 1971 in Orient Heights, East Boston) is a composer, organist, pianist, and author.

A concert organist in the United States and abroad, Ciampa is also a composer. His works include "The Annunciation," a cantata for chorus and soloists, four Organ Symphonies, a concerto for organ and piano^[1], a piano quintet, and a large body of sacred and secular works. His Sicilian-inspired works include Suite Siciliana (Op. 145), for two violins, piano, and chamber orchestra, which was commissioned by the Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra of Boston for their 25th anniversary season and premiered at Harvard University.^[2]

As a concert organist, Ciampa has given numerous tours of historic organs in Italy, Austria, and Germany and has recorded two compact disks for AFKA Records. In 2008 Ciampa was named Director of Music & Liturgy at St. Mary - St. Catherine Parish in Charlestown, MA.

As a pianist, Ciampa has been noted for his interpretations of Frédéric Chopin.^[3] In 1995 he performed the complete Polonaises and Mazurkas in four concerts, the following year the complete Waltzes, Ballades, and Scherzos in two concerts. On 17 October 1999, Ciampa was the only pianist in Boston to honor the 150th anniversary of Chopin's death with an all-Chopin recital. As choral director, Ciampa is the founding director of Coro Polifonico of Boston, whose repertoire includes the once-famous works of Don Lorenzo Perosi.

Ciampa is also an author whose works include "The Twilight of Belcanto"^[4] and the first English-language biography of Don Lorenzo Perosi. Ciampa currently resides in Orient Heights.

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• Official Site
• Coro Polifonico
• Interview on ConcertoNet