Giulio Lucciola (Rome, 1998) is an Italian organist based in Switzerland. His artistic profile combines a strong academic background in organ performance and church music with an active career as a concert and church musician.
He began his organ studies at the Liceo Musicale Farnesina in Rome with Luca Purchiaroni and Vincenzo Zito, graduating in 2017. He then attended the Conservatorio Santa Cecilia in Rome, where he studied organ with Alessandro Licata and Alberto Pavoni and graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Organ with highest honours in 2020.
In the same year, he moved to Switzerland and enrolled at the Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana in Lugano, where he studied organ with Stefano Molardi and graduated with a Master of Arts in Organ Performance in 2022. He subsequently attended the Hochschule Luzern – Musik, where he studied organ with Suzanne Z’Graggen, organ improvisation with Kay Johannsen and choral conducting with Stefan Albrecht, graduating in 2025 with a Master of Arts in Church Music, with a Major in Organ and a Minor in Choral Conducting. Since 2026, he has continued to study privately with Kay Johannsen. During his studies in Lucerne, he was awarded First Prize ex aequo in the Alois Koch Competition.
He further developed his artistic perspective through masterclasses with internationally renowned organists including Jean Guillou, Jean-Baptiste Monnot, Olivier Penin, David Briggs, Daniel Cook, Ralph Gustafsson, Ludger Lohmann and Lorenzo Ghielmi.
His artistic focus is centred above all on the French Romantic and twentieth-century repertoire, which forms the core of his musical identity. The later nineteenth century represents the foundation of his work, with particular attention to the composers who shaped the French tradition, including Lefébure-Wély, Franck, Lemmens, Dubois, Guilmant, Gigout and Boëllmann. This aesthetic naturally extends towards the organ symphonism of Widor and Vierne, which occupies an essential place in the development of his musical language.
He also devotes significant attention to twentieth-century French music, maintaining a close engagement with the works of Dupré, Tournemire, Bonnet, Langlais, Litaize, Alain, Demessieux and Guillou. Within this landscape, the music of Olivier Messiaen holds a special place as his primary artistic reference, the world in which he most clearly recognises the essence of his own musical identity.
Although the French tradition remains at the heart of his artistic profile, his repertoire also encompasses the major German composers of the Romantic period, alongside works by Johann Sebastian Bach and music from the French Baroque. This breadth allows him to move across different periods and musical languages while remaining firmly rooted in his principal aesthetic references.
Giulio Lucciola has performed at organ festivals and concert series in Italy, Switzerland and Germany, including “I Concerti del Venerdì” at the Chiesa di Santa Maria della Mercede in Rome, “Settimana Barocca” at the Chiesa di Santa Lucia del Monastero delle Benedettine in Tarquinia, “Iubilemus Deo” at the Duomo di Tarquinia, the “Orgelvespern” at the Jesuitenkirche in Lucerne, the “Orgelnacht” at the Offene Kirche St. Jakob in Zurich, where he has been invited to perform for three consecutive years, and “Orgelmusik zum Weihnachtsmarkt” at the Stiftskirche in Stuttgart.
He is currently organist at the Reformierte Kirche Rafz in the Canton of Zurich, Switzerland.
