Lorenzo Porzio

Lorenzo Porzio ( born August 24, 1981 in Rome ) is an Italian musician and rowers.

Training

Porzio comes from a sports family (his father Guido was a member of the national rugby team ), but devoted himself initially to the music and looking at the water sports as a hobby.

At the age of seven he began to learn the piano at age eleven he was the organ with the organist and composer Lorenzo Ronci and later when Federico del Sordo. Since 1996 he plays the organ in his parish church, the Basilica del Sacro Cuore di Maria Immacolato Roman Parioli. By 2011, he continued his piano studies under Biagio Andriulli, Andrea Sammartino, John Scaramuzza and Gino Nappo. During this time he joined both as a soloist and as a choral accompanist on in renowned concert halls and churches in Italy and worked with renowned singers from the Accademia di Santa Cecilia and the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, as well as with the Coro Academico and the Polyphonic Choir of San Martino. He began to study composition with Marco Persichetti and graduated at the Conservatorio Santa Cecilia in Rome with Francesco Telli with honors. He suggested that a conducting career, studied under Francesco Carotenuto and Marco Boemi and participated in master classes by Piero Bellugi.

Musical career

In 2003, Porzio at church festivals several concerts at the Vatican, including the reopening of the Casina di Pio IV, in which the Pontifical Academy of Sciences is housed. Since 2004, he wrote and performed on piano and organ music for broadcasts, documentaries and short films for television stations such as Rai 1, Rai 3, Rai Internazionale, Sky Sports and others. In November 2005, Rai sent his one of his own composition listed Rapsodia Orientale ( pensando a Pechino ). In May 2006, works by Porzio, at the occasion of the exhibition " Com'è straordinaria la vita ' for the first time under the direction of Pippo Baudo at the Auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome to the performance. On the occasion of the 400th anniversary of the opening of the Vatican Museums, he was a chamber concert in the Basilica of San Giovanni in Laterano. In 2006, he played the organ for the Christmas Mass in St. Peter's Basilica, where he performed as an organist in 2009 and 2011. From 2009 to 2010 he was first assistant conductor of the orchestra's selection at the Conservatorio Santa Cecilia, where he worked as a pianist and conductor since 2010. 2010 and 2011 he conducted the Orchestra Tiberina in Rome. Since 2011 he has been a regular conductor of the orchestra " L' Armonica Temperanza ".

Career in rowing

Parallel to his musical training Lorenzo Porzio is active as a performance rower. He starts for the C. C. Aniene where 1994 Giuseppe La Mura began his career. Since 1997 he is member of the Italian rowing team and has participated in a total of eleven junior and senior world championships since 1998. In 2002 he won in the four with coxswain the U23 World Cup, in the following year the silver medal. His greatest achievement was winning the bronze medal in the coxless four at the Olympic Games in Athens in 2004 and the subsequent election to the Italian athlete of the year. Moreover he was eighteen times Italian champion, won the Rowing World Cup in Lucerne in 2009 of his special discipline pairs with coxswain and was a torchbearer at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin. For the Italian television, he has commented on transfers from national and international rowing competitions.

To his double life he said in 2005:

" Non so se sono l' unico organista con i calli all mani, ma so che sono l' unico per certo studente di conservatorio medagliato olimpico. "

"I do not know if I'm the only organist with calluses on his hands, but I know that I am the only Olympic medalist at the conservatory. "

Awards

• Order of Merit of the Italian Republic on 27 September 2004
• Medaglia d' Argento al Valore Atletico ( silver medal for athletic performance )