Armando Salarza

[1] Immediately after high school, he was sent to the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Graz, Austria as the first scholar through the Bamboo Organ Foundation.

He graduated with distinction in 1988 and earned the title Magister Artium - Master of Arts degree in Church Music and a Teacher's Certificate in Organ.

[2] From 1988 to 1992, he went on to pursue a Postgraduate Course Orgel Konzertfach (Organ Concert Performance) at the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Wien (Vienna, Austria) and simultaneously took Master classes and workshops in organ, harpsichord, orchestra and choral conducting in various institutions in Europe, among them, Universidad de Salamanca in Spain and the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom on a scholarship grant by the British Council.

His teachers and mentors were prominent figures in classical music – Johann Trummer, Ernst Triebel and Herbert Tachezi for the organ; Gordon Murray for the harpsichord; Franziska Hammer-Drexler for voice; Josef Döller, John Rutter (choral composition) and Stephen Cleobury for choral conducting; Guy Bovet, Montserrat Torrent, John Scott, and Harald Vogel for selective Master classes in organ.

[2] Recognized as a premier concert organist, he has given performances in Austria, Germany, Belgium, Rome, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Poland, Finland and the United States of America.

His most recent inaugural concerts were with the newly restored pipe organs of Basilica Minore del Sto.