Maria Greco - Portrait of the Ghilardi Organ (2021)

Maria Greco was born in Acri (Italy) in 1995. She started studying organ with prof. Federico Vallini at the « S. Giacomantonio » Music Conservatory in Cosenza, where she received her diploma with full marks with prof. Emanuele Cardi in 2016. In 2018 she received with full marks and honours a Double Degree Master Program between the Istituto Pontificio di Musica Sacra in Rome and the « S. Giacomantonio » Music Conservatory in Cosenza studying with prof. Roberto Marini in Rome and prof. Emanuele Cardi in Cosenza.

She has performed organ concerts in Italy, Germany and the Netherlands and attended masterclasses with some of the most important organ professors such as Guy Bovet, Ludger Lohmann, Daniel Zaretsky, Peter Westerbrink, Istvan Ruppert, Winfried Bönig and Maurice Clerc. She has been selected as one of the finalists of the « Agati Tronci International Organ Competition » in Pistoia in 2017 and of the “Domenico Alari International Organ Competition” (RM) in 2019, and she won the third prize at the 7th International Organ Competition “Premio Elvira Di Renna” in Faiano in 2018.