a Franciscan father and an Italian national, was born in Maiolati Spontini (Ancona, I), on 3rd September 1935. He studied at the Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music in Rome (I) with a thesis of the “Codice Oliveriano II”. He also studied at the Conservatories San Pietro a Majella of Naples (I), graduating in Pianoforte in 1966, and G. Rossini of Pesaro (I), graduating in Choral Music and Choir Conduction, Organ and Organ Composition in 1972.
His professional activities have focused on organ playing, conducting choirs, composition and teaching Organ and Sacred Music, firstly at the Conservatories L. Perosi of Campobasso (Molise, I) and G. Rossini of Pesaro (I), and then at the Studium Theologicum Jerusolymitanum and the "Magnificat" Institute of Music in Jerusalem. From 1988 to 2014, he has been the titular organist at the Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. In 1995, he also founded the Magnificat Institute of Music in Jerusalem, which he directed until 2014. For ten years, ending in 1999, he was the editor of the magazine “La Terra Santa”. He has given concerts in Italy, Greece, Cyprus, Switzerland, Russia, Iceland, and in the Holy Land. Father Pierucci has composed music, among others, for organ, choir, recorder, accordion, brass, pianoforte, various cantatas, didactic works, and many arrangements and accompaniments (in secular and ecclesial contexts), masses and liturgical pieces. He published several literary works.
In April 2008, Giorgio Napolitano, the President of the Italian Republic, appointed him to the title of “Cavaliere dell'Ordine della Stella della Solidarietà Italiana”, and in 2013, he was decorated with the “Knight's Cross of the Order Merit of Hungary” by the Hungarian President Jànos Ader, in recognition for his work in favor of children from different origins, religious and cultural background, and for having promoted musical relations.
Maestro Pierucci is particularly devoted to the Holy Mother of God, so much to recognize himself in the anagram of his name, "Per Maria conduci".
Link on the documentary published for the 20th anniversary of the Magnificat Institute, Jerusalem (1995-2015) (The Magnificat Institute presented by Fr. Armando Pierucci)
Long version:
https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/641118427
Short version:
https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/640675746
Articolo sul M° Pierucci dall'Osservatore Romano, settembre 2020:
https://www.osservatoreromano.va/it/news/2020-09/se-canti-pregare-e-piu-facile.html
Link to some compositions of A. Pierucci:
Elevazione
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Y1ubCMLAK0
Canzone ariosa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7ZLync-4rk
Aria
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvPY4SqD4ug
La Terra dei Fioretti
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwxDUP2luYE
The Eucharistic Symphony
Sinfonia Mariana
Donations on bank account at UBS Switzerland AG in the name of: Fondazione Laus Plena, Lugano.
The Foundation issues certificates of donation for tax deduction purposes.
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