Lorenzo Porzio

Lorenzo Porzio medal table
Porzio on the Tiber 2009
rowing
Italy
Olympic Summer Games
bronze	2004	Foursome without a helmsman
Rowing World Cup
gold	1 ×	Rotsee, Lucerne 2009
silver	4 ×
bronze	1 ×

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

education

Porzio on the piano

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

At the age of seven he began to learn the piano , at eleven he took organ lessons from the organist and composer Lorenzo Ronci and later from Federico del Sordo . Since 1996 he has been playing the organ in his parish church, the Basilica del Sacro Cuore Immacolato di Maria in Parioli in Rome . Until 2011 he continued his piano studies with Biagio Andriulli , Andrea Sammartino , John Scaramuzza and Gino Nappo . During this time he performed both as a soloist and as a choir accompanist 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 Coro polifonico San Martino . He began studying composition with Marco Persichetti and graduated with honors from the Conservatorio Santa Cecilia in Rome with Francesco Telli . He embarked on a conducting career , studied with Francesco Carotenuto and Marco Boemi and took part in masterclasses by Piero Bellugi .

Musical career

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

Rowing career

Parallel to his musical training, Lorenzo Porzio is active as a performance rower. He starts for the Circolo Canottieri Aniene , where his career began in 1994 under Giuseppe La Mura . He has been a member of the Italian national rowing team since 1997 and has participated in a total of eleven junior and senior world championships since 1998 . In 2002 he won the U23 world regatta in a four-man with helmsman , and the silver medal in the following year. His greatest success was winning the bronze medal in the four without a helmsman at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens and the subsequent election as Italian Sportsman of the Year . He was also Italian champion eighteen times, won the 2009 Rowing World Cup in Lucerne in his special discipline two-man with helmsman and was torchbearer at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin . He has commented on broadcasts of national and international rowing competitions for Italian television.

In 2005 he said of his double life:

“Not so se sono l'unico organista con i calli alle mani, ma so per certo che sono l'unico student di conservatorio medagliato olimpico.”

"I don't know if I'm the only organist with calluses on my hands, but I know I'm the only Olympic medalist at the Conservatory."

- La leggenda del pianista sul Tevere

Awards

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

Web links

Commons : Lorenzo Porzio  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Lorenzo Porzio in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Canottaggio, un bronzo amaro e uno a sorpresa . In: La Repubblica , August 21, 2004 (Italian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Musica dall 'acqua . In: La Repubblica , November 19, 2012 (ital.)
2. ↑ Premium “Atleta dell'Anno 2004” . Archived from the original on April 14, 2015. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved June 10, 2013. 
3. ^ Paolo Crepaz: La leggenda del pianista sul Tevere . In: Città Nuova , March 25, 2005