Vincenzo Cipriani is born at Bad-Cannstatt (Stuttgard–Germany) on the 12th of October 1969. He becomes organist, organ composer and pianist at the Academy of Music “N. Piccinni” of Bari, obtaining the first class degree. Moreover he graduates in jazz music at the Academy of Music of Monopoli.
Now he is a permanent teacher at the Academy of Music of Matera in Theory, Solfeggio and Musical Dictation (ordinary courses). Here he also teaches, for the Academic second level courses, the following disciplines: Ear Training, Music of use, composition for popular music, teaching of improvisation, analysis of composing forms, orientation to the jazz piano, word music.
The Maestro is the Artistic Director at the “E.P. Santomasi” Foundation of Gravina in Puglia - a No Profit Making Company founded in 1920 (www.fondazionesantomasi.it) - and as organist, he is deeply involved in concert activities, either as soloist or in chamber ensemble.
As soloist, he has participated to organ festivals in Italy and abroad ( Monreale, Padua, Munich of Bavaria, Nottingham, Satu Mare – Romania ).
Being an expert in the art of organ, he is invited to approve officially and inaugurate the repairing of ancient and modern organs.
During the “Duni Festival” of Matera in 2002, he has performed G. F. Haendel’s organ and orchestra Concerto No 1 and 2.
For several years, he has played as regular organist at the churches of St. Nicolas and St. Dominic in Gravina in Puglia.
He works in pairs ( organ and saxophone ) whit the saxophonist Vito Soranno, presenting a repertory spacing from ancient music to the jazz contemporary music, in particular Piazzolla’s and Corea’s compositions of religious inspiration, purposely arranged by Vincenzo Cipriani himself for organ and saxophone.
On the 20th December of 2009, the two musicians gave a concert at St. Jean Baptiste de Belleville in Paris, with a programme which spaced from the ancient Italian pastoral symphonies to the compositions of Bach, Lully, Campbell, Corelli and Bozza, including contemporary repertory.