Marco Frisina

Marco Frisina (born 16 December 1954, in Rome) is an Italian Roman Catholic priest and composer.

[1][2][3] After the Liceo classico, Frisina graduated in Letters at the Sapienza University of Rome and subsequently in composition at the Conservatorio Santa Cecilia.

[8] In 1991 Frisina started a collaboration with TV series titled Le storie della Bibbia produced by Lux Vide, in quality of Biblical consultant and musical composer.

Four years later, John Paul II made him a virtuous ordinary academic of the Pontifical Academy of Fine Arts and Letters of the Virtuosi al Pantheon, of which Frisina also became the spiritual assistant.

[12] In 2011 he composed the official hymn for the beatification of John Paul II and was the liturgical focal point of the related celebrations.