Aurelio Porfiri (1968) graduated from the Conservatorio di San Pietro a Maiella, Naples, with a final degree in Choral Music. He also studied Renaissance Polyphony and Polyphonic musical forms with Domenico Bartolucci as well as further studies in Organ anche Composition with Giuseppe Agostini, a leading organist and choir master in Italy. Later he also studied Renaissance Semiology with Francesco Luisi, editor for the third national edition of the works of Palestrina.
Having previously been the substitute Organist of the Vatican City Vicariate in St. Peter’s Basilica, as well as in many other notable churches in Italy, he arrived in Macau in 2008, having been invited to be an Associate Professor for a local University.
He is a prolific composer, having composed many Oratorios and Cantatas, Masses, Musicals, Choral Compositions and Arrangements, as well as music of different genres. His choral compositions are mainly in Latin, Italian and English and renge. Many of his compositions in Italian were commissioned by the most popular liturgical journal in Italy “La vita in Cristo e nella Chiesa” and from Vatican Radio. His works are performed from various choirs, communities and parishes around the world and his music is mainly published by Edizioni San Paolo (Italy), Edizioni Carrara (Italy), Canticanova (USA) Porfiri & Horwarth Publisher (former Edition Music Contact, Germany), Editio Ferrimontana (Germany), Symetrie (France).
His is a regular contributor of influential blogs and website dealing with music and liturgy as Zenit (until 2010) Liturgia Opus Trinitatis (Italy) and Corpus Christi Watershed “A View from the choir loft” (USA). He has published around 400 articles and 15 books.
BOOKS
Cantiamo il tuo nome (Centro Eucaristico 2007)
Ad Te Levavi Animam Meam (with Nino Albarosa – Edition Music Contact 2008)
La Presenza (Apostolato della Preghiera 2010)
Abisso di Luce (Edizioni san Paolo 2010)
Educare alla Vera Realtà (Marcianum Press 2012)
Il canto dei secoli (Marcianum Press 2013)
L’eclissi di sole (Marcianum Press 2014)
Pulpitazioni (Dialoghi intorno alla liturgia) (Marcianum Press 2014)
Fate Questo in memoria di me (Edizioni Segno 2015)
Li amò con un amore estremo (con Giovanni Cereti, Chorabooks 2015)
La danza delle parole (Chorabooks 2015)
Canticum Novum (Chorabooks 2015)
Cinismo (Edizioni Segno 2015)
L’agnello e il dragone (con il Cardinal Joseph Zen, Chorabooks 2016)
Dio, Patria e…(Chorabooks 2016)
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A close look to the difficult situation of church music in today's Catholic Church worship.
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Uno sguardo al dibattito sulla famiglia in seno alla Chiesa Cattolica
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Cina e Cristianesimo nelle parole di un coraggioso Cardinale cinese
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Poesie scritte durante gli anni dell'autore a Macao
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Un libro scomodo su Chiesa e mondo contemporaneo
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