Born in Bologna, Italy, Andrea Angelini began his piano studies as a child, at the Rimini Lettimi School. He later earned a Bachelor of Music at Ferrara's Frescobaldi Conservatory. Particularly interested in piano pedagogy, he studied with Rita Ferri and Alexander Lonquich. After earning a Master in Choral Conducting in 1992, he studied music therapy with Professor Cremaschi of Milan University. His interests led him to the choral field, and he earned a Bachelor studying Liturgical Music at Modena and at the International Art Academy in Rome with Fulvio Angius. He also studied organ at Pesaro's Conservatory of Music. Since 1988, Andrea Angelini has conducted many concerts with the choir Carla Amori, in Italy and abroad. He has also worked with the Cattolica City Choir and the Cesena Lyric Choir. In 1996 he was named Director of the Rimini Cathedral Choir, Alessandro Grandi. He led this choir in several performances, including in important venues such as St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome - where he was able to meet Pope John Paul the Second - and in Milan’s Cathedral. He is also the Artistic Director and Conductor of the professional group Musica Ficta Vocal Ensemble. He has also conducted the Lithuanian Jauna Muzika Choir , the Latvian Ave Sol and the Tudor Consort from New Zealand. Mr. Angelini is the Artistic Director of the International Festival Voices from America and the Sound of the Organ held annually in Rimini each spring. He is also the Artistic Director and member of the Jury of the international organ competition, Marcello Galanti. He was also member of the Jury at the following International Choir’s Competitions: Grand Prix Slovakia, Malta Choir Festival, Cantonigros Choir Competition, Jersey Choir Competition, The Prague Competition for Blind Musicians, The Rhodes Music Competition. He frequently leads choral workshops in Italy and abroad. He is the artistic director and one of the tutors at the Rimini International Choral Workshop, where he teaches with Peter Phillips of the Tallis Scholars. He taught music theory, music history and piano at the State School of Music of the Republic of San Marino. His professional memberships include the Artistic Committee of AERCO (Regional Association of Choirs), FENIARCO (National Italian Federation of Regional Choral Associations), ABCD (British Association of Choral Directors) and RCO (The Royal College of Organists). He is also a regular reviewer for the press. He has written numerous transcriptions for choirs and chamber ensembles, including a monumental transcription of Antonio Vivaldi's Gloria in D RV589, for choir, soloists, and organ (with the organ part being quite suited to the instrument). His transcription of Faure's Requiem is published by Gelber Hund Verlag of Berlin, who are also publishers of a book of repertoire for organ and violin, edited by Mr. Angelini. For the American CanticaNOVA Publication, he has prepared transcriptions of important Renaissance Anthems.

A native of Canada, Jason Lorenzon began his keyboard studies at the age of five and received his first organ post at the age of nine years old.  He completed his undergraduate degree in music at the University of Western Ontario and during his tenure there he was the only student to have won the concerto competition as a first year student.  He received a Master of Music Degree at the Cleveland Institute of Music.  He has studied the piano with pianists Jean-Paul Bracey, Thomas Hecht and International French Concert pianist Cecile Ousset.  He has studied the organ with internationally acclaimed American concert organist Todd Wilson.  Jason also holds the Colleague Diploma of the American Guild of Organists, the Associate Diploma of the Royal Conservatory of Music, Toronto, Ontario.  He has placed in several competitions including the Bach Kalamazoo International Competition and more recently he placed second in the first Marcello Galanti International Organ Competition in 2000.  He has played in Canada, the United States and Europe. He is active as a recitalist, conductor and adjudicator.  He has served as the Director of Music for the Cathedral of St. Jude the Apostle, St. Petersburg, Florida and on the music faculties of Case Western Reserve University and the Cleveland Music School Settlement.  He currently serves as Director of Music Ministry for Our Lady of Guadalupe Church, Macedonia, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland Ohio, where he oversees the entire liturgical musical program including four choirs and the Organ Scholar Program and as Director of Music for the Hudson Community Chorus, Hudson, Ohio.  Jason is a member of the National Standing Committee of Organists for the National Association of Pastoral Musicians and is a regular convention presenter and contributor to their bi-monthly publication, the Pastoral Musician.  

Alexei Parshin was born in 1957 in Moscow. He began his musical studies under A. Artobolevskaya. At the age of 13 Alexei Parshin made his debut as pianist in the Great Hall of Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory.In 1975 he graduated from Central Music School in Moscow (the piano class of I. Kliatchko). From 1975 to 1981 Mr. Parshin studied piano with M. Voskressensky and organ with L. Roizman at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory where in 1981 he obtained the Diploma of Concert Artist, Teacher and Accompanist. Following a postgraduate course in organ he joined the teacher staff of the Moscow Conservatory in 1984. Parshin was granted a French State Cultural Scholarship in 1987 for a year during which time he was enrolled in the organ class of Marie-Claire Alain at the National Regional Conservatory in Rueil-Malmaison. There he received the Gold Medal (unanimously) and gave several recitals in France, notably at Notre Dame de Paris, Basilique Cathedral Saint-Denis, Cite International des Arts de Paris. He also studied improvisation; Jacques Taddei was his professor.  In 1980 he began his career as an organist. Alexei Parshin gives many recitals in concert halls, cathedrals, and churches in Russia, Europe, and America. He has recorded numerous CDs. He is also Honored Artist of Russian Federation (1999).

Following his conservatory studies, organist Ennio Cominetti began his multifaceted musical activity not only as a performer but also in composition, musicological research and music journalism. He has played in the most prestigious organ festivals of Europe, Asia, Africa, the United States, Canada and South America, for a total of some 1.000 appearances to date, with programs ranging from ancient to contemporary music. He has recorded several CDs for Italian and German companies, broadcast by RAI3 (Radio) and favorably received by the most qualified critics. He has received national and international awards as a composer. His compositions bave been recorded on CD and broadcast by RAI, Bayerische Rundfunk and Radio Vaticana. His efforts in music publishing are significant: not only does he supervise a philological edition of ancient music, he also edits a collection of organ music and one of choral music, for prestigious Italian and foreign publishers. He contributes organ-related articles to the magazines Musica e Scuola, Studi e documentazioni and L'orgue francophone. In Suonare News he writes a column on the valued organs of Italy. He has conducted historical research on and catalogued the organs in Como province, publishing the volume Gli organi del decanato alto Lario. He recently published a biography of Marco Enrico Bossi, the most important Italian organist of the 19th and 20th centuries. He has held organ music seminars in Italy, Austria and Switzerland and has sat on juries in organ-playing, composition and chamber music competitions at the national level. He is artistic director of the International Organ Festival in Varenna and the Province of Lecco, the "Lario in Musica" International Festival and the "Lario in Musica" Intemational Competition of Musical Interpretation. For over ten years he had been official organist of the Collegiata di San Giovanni Battista in Morbegno. Since 1994 he has taught organ at the "Musica e Arte" summer specialization courses in Tolentino (Marches). Since 1998 he has been director of the sacred music department and organ professor at the Arts Academy in Rome.