FREE ONLINE COURSE

by

Mons. MARCO FRISINA

Another important training offer for all FEDERCORI members!

A course created by the FEDERCORI Federation, with the aim of offering a tool for knowledge and full awareness of the profound meaning of singing.

The topics covered in the Course will explore areas of interest for choristers involved in liturgical animation:

WORD OF GOD AND MUSIC (29 March)

PRAYER AND MUSIC (30th March)

At the end of each session of the Course, Mons. Frisina will answer the questions of the participants.

It is possible to register for the Course using the following form:

Monsignor MARCO FRISINA was born in Rome in 1954. After classical studies, he graduated in composition at the Conservatorio di Santa Cecilia. He completed his theological studies at the Pontifical Gregorian University and then obtained a licence in Sacred Scripture at the Pontifical Biblical Institute.

Ordained a priest in 1982, he carries out his ministry in the Diocese of Rome. He is currently a consultant to the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of the New Evangelisation and Rector of the Basilica of Santa Cecilia in Trastevere.
He holds courses at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross and the Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music.
He is also Academic Virtuoso Ordinary of the Pontifical Academy of Fine Arts and Literature of the Virtuosi al Pantheon, of which he is Spiritual Assistant.

Author of numerous liturgical songs known and appreciated in Italy and abroad, in 1984 he founded – and since then directs – the Choir of the Diocese of Rome, with which he animates the most important diocesan liturgies, some of which are presided over by the Holy Father.

In 1991 he began his collaboration in the international RAI project “Bibbia”, both as a biblical consultant and author of the music for the films produced.
author of the music for the films produced. In addition to the “Bible Project”, over the years he has composed the soundtracks for many films with historical and religious themes.

His musical production counts more than thirty sacred oratorios inspired by biblical characters or the lives of great saints. In addition to these, the following are worthy of mention: “Cantico dei Cantici”, written in 2009 and performed at the “Festival Anima Mundi” in Pisa, “Passio Caeciliae”, composed in 2011 and performed in Rome and New York on the occasion of the celebrations for the 150th Anniversary of the Unification of Italy, “Paradiso Paradiso”, in 2013, for the 56th “Festival dei Due Mondi” in Spoleto with the participation of Giorgio Albertazzi, and “Fino ai confini della Terra”, inspired by the story of the shipwreck of St. Paul in Malta and performed there in February 2013. Paul in Malta and performed there in February 2017 on the centenary of the Apostle’s martyrdom.

In 2007 he composed the play “La Divina Commedia”, the first musical transposition of Dante’s masterpiece of the same name. In the 2009-2010 season, his second work for the theatre was staged: “The Miracle of Marcellin”, inspired by José Maria Sanchez Silva’s novel “Marcellin Bread and Wine”. He is also the author of the music for “In Hoc Signo”, performed in 2013 in Belgrade on the occasion of the millenary of the Edict of Milan and the Opera-Oratorio “Passio Christi” performed in 2018 in Malaga.

He was the promoter and coordinator of the First Conference of Italian Choirs, held in Rome in September 2014, and of the Choir Jubilee in October 2016, which saw the participation of over 8,000 singers from all over the world. Since 2015 he has been Artistic Director of the “Concert with the Poor and for the Poor” held in the Paul VI Hall.

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