Biography
Daniel Ficarri (b. 1996) is a young American organist and composer from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Named one of the top “20 under 30” organists by The Diapason magazine, he earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from The Juilliard School, where he studied with Paul Jacobs. Ficarri’s performances have been featured by The New York Times in the “Week’s 8 Best Classical Music Moments” and in WQXR's 2014 Bach Organ Marathon; he has played in Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall under the batons of Marin Alsop, Itzhak Perlman, David Robertson, and James Gaffigan. In addition, Daniel has given recitals in many of the country’s great houses of worship, including St. Patrick’s Cathedral and the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City.
Ficarri’s compositional output includes a rich collection of colorful organ works, settings of sacred texts and poems for choir and solo voice, and instrumental music for piano and small chamber ensembles. Recent commissions include an organ fanfare for Choir & Organ magazine to commemorate the dedication of the Dobson Op. 93 organ at St. Thomas Church Fifth Avenue, and a mystical five-movement suite for organ and narrator for the Paulist Fathers, written to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Fr. Isaac Hecker. Much of Ficarri’s music is published by MorningStar and E. C. Schirmer.
An active church musician, Ficarri currently works as Organ Scholar at the Church of St. Paul the Apostle, NYC. In 2015, he founded Sacred Sounds at St. Paul’s, a concert series promoting organ music in the Lincoln Center neighborhood and providing performance opportunities to young artists. Previously, he served as Organ Scholar at Hitchcock Presbyterian Church in Scarsdale, NY.
Ficarri’s compositional output includes a rich collection of colorful organ works, settings of sacred texts and poems for choir and solo voice, and instrumental music for piano and small chamber ensembles. Recent commissions include an organ fanfare for Choir & Organ magazine to commemorate the dedication of the Dobson Op. 93 organ at St. Thomas Church Fifth Avenue, and a mystical five-movement suite for organ and narrator for the Paulist Fathers, written to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Fr. Isaac Hecker. Much of Ficarri’s music is published by MorningStar and E. C. Schirmer.
An active church musician, Ficarri currently works as Organ Scholar at the Church of St. Paul the Apostle, NYC. In 2015, he founded Sacred Sounds at St. Paul’s, a concert series promoting organ music in the Lincoln Center neighborhood and providing performance opportunities to young artists. Previously, he served as Organ Scholar at Hitchcock Presbyterian Church in Scarsdale, NY.