Speakers

Mons. Marco Frisina

Composer

Marco Frisina is a priest, composer and choir director of the Diocese of Rome. Founder of the Choir of the Diocese of Rome, he conducts the Lateran Musical Chapel and has composed numerous liturgical songs and oratorios performed in Italy and around the world, often at celebrations presided over by the Holy Father.

Robert Mehlhart OP

Dean of the PIMS

Robert Mehlhart OP is a Dominican priest, musicologist and Dean of the Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music in Rome. A scholar of liturgy and sacred music, he promotes research and training in the Church's musical tradition and dialogue between art, faith and culture.

Fabrizio Barchi

Choir conductor

Fabrizio Barchi is a choir conductor and professor of Choral Conducting at the "Lorenzo Perosi" Conservatory in Campobasso. He conducts the Musicanova Choir and other youth and women's choral ensembles, with which he has won numerous prizes in national and international competitions.

Óscar Valado

Musical Director

Óscar Valado is the Musical Director of the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela and Director of the Music Department of the Spanish Episcopal Conference. His theological, liturgical and musical training has led him to work with numerous dioceses in Spain and Latin America on liturgical and musical formation through publications, conferences, workshops and educational videos.

Sébastien Barasinski

Founder of Ecclesia Cantic

Sébastien Barasinski is the founding president of Ecclesia Cantic, an ecclesial movement for young people aged 18 to 35 devoted to singing and the liturgy. Through this project at the service of the beauty of celebrations, he is committed to the formation of young people, the proclamation of the Gospel and the transmission of a love for the Church.

Clayton Dias

Musicologist

Clayton Dias is a musicologist and Gregorian chant specialist. He is President of the Brazilian Section of the International Association for Gregorian Chant Studies (AISCGre) and artistic and musical director of the Choir of the Archdiocese of Campinas. He is active in research, training and teaching in the field of sacred and liturgical music and has worked with the National Conference of Bishops of Brazil (CNBB).

Sr. Cristina Alfano

Teacher of voice and liturgy

A soprano with a diploma from the Santa Cecilia Conservatory in Rome, she specialised in sacred music, Gregorian chant, opera, spirituals and gospel. She has worked with Mgr Marco Frisina and the Choir of the Diocese of Rome, taking part in papal celebrations and recordings. A soloist in Italy and abroad, she teaches voice and liturgy and promotes the evangelisation project "Frammenti di Luce" (Fragments of Light).

Emanuele Faiola

Deputy Director of the Choir of the Diocese of Rome

Emanuele Faiola is Deputy Director and Chorus Master of the Choir of the Diocese of Rome, in which he has sung as a tenor since 1996. A collaborator of Mgr Marco Frisina as copyist and musical assistant on numerous film scores, he has prepared the choir for several recordings and for international events in the presence of the Holy Father. He founded the Color Gospel Choir in 2017 and received the Marcello Sgarlata Prize for his work in choral conducting in 2019.

Mariangela Topa

Soprano

Mariangela Topa is a soprano, crossover singer, vocal coach and choir director, soloist of the Choir of the Diocese of Rome conducted by Mgr Marco Frisina. In over thirty years of career she has sung in more than five hundred concerts in Italy and abroad and at many papal celebrations, and has recorded about fifty CDs and soundtracks, including all those composed by Frisina for Lux Vide. She conducts the Voices of Joy gospel choir in Rome.

Saturday, 6 February 2027

• From 7:30 am

  Entrance to the Paul VI Hall, after security checks.

• 8:50 am

  Opening prayer

• ...

• 9:30 am

  Opening songs with the Convention participants

• 10:00 am

  Audience with the Holy Father

  All choir members are invited to attend wearing the traditional dress of their countries.
• 10:45 am

  Songs at the end of the audience

• ...

• 12:15 pm

  Conclusion

• 12:30 pm

  Lunch break
  All participants must leave the Paul VI Hall while it is prepared for the Concert.
  

• From 3:00 pm

  Entrance to the Paul VI Hall

• 5:30 pm

  Dress rehearsal with the orchestra.

• 6:00 pm

  Grand Concert of the Choirs with the "Nova Opera Orchestra", conducted by Mgr Marco Frisina

  • Inno Pontificio (C. Gounod)
  • Veni Sancte Spiritus (J. Berthier)
  • Ave verum Corpus (W. A. Mozart)
  • O Sacrum Convivium (D. Bartolucci)
  • Hallelujah (G. F. Haendel)
  • Magnificat (M. Frisina)
  • Pacem in terris (M. Frisina)
  • O God Beyond All Praising (G. Holst)
  • Open the doors (M. Frisina)
  • La via dei martiri (M. Frisina)
  • Preferisco il Paradiso (M. Frisina)
  • Suplica a la Virgen por la paz (M. Frisina)
  • Jezu ufam tobie (M. Frisina)
  • Il Canto del Mare (M. Frisina)
  • Regina Coeli (M. Frisina)
  • We believe in love (M. Frisina)
  • Christ is my hope (M. Frisina)
  • Jesus Christ you are my life (M. Frisina)
• 8:00 pm

  End