Marc Giacone

Marc GIACONE is a composer, organist and improviser from Monaco.

Born in 1954 at Monaco, he studied organ with the Masters Emile Bourdon, Chanoine Henri Carol, Jean Wallet, the improvisation with Pierre Cochereau and the composition (harmony, counterpoint, orchestration).

Composer, electroacoustic researcher, virtuoso improviser, he belongs to the new generation of contemporary musicians for which all the forms of musical expression can find their place in masterpiece and even combine (jazz, fusion, folklore, atonality, dodecaphony, sound effects, etc).

He composes many pieces for organ, harp, piano, flute, trombone, vibraphone, orchestra, synthesizer, cinema, television, radio, etc. He currently teaches articulation, traditional organ, improvisation and musical theory.

Since July 2nd 2005, Marc Giacone was named titular of the Cavaillé-Coll organ of the Carmes' Chapel of Monaco.