Daniel Ficarri

b 1996

Named one of the top “20 under 30” organists by The Diapason, Daniel Ficarri is Associate Director of Music and Organist at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, NYC and a composer of organ, choral, and chamber music.

A native of Pittsburgh, Daniel moved to New York City in 2014 to study with Paul Jacobs at The Juilliard School (where he earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees). Since then, Ficarri has made appearances in concert halls and houses of worship around the world, from Carnegie Hall to Westminster Abbey. By the age of 18, he performed live on WQXR as a soloist in their Bach Organ Marathon; and by the age of 23, he was presented as a soloist at Lincoln Center under the baton of Marin Alsop in Samuel Barber’s Toccata Festiva. Other orchestral engagements have included concerts with the Boston Symphony, the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, the Florida Orchestra, and the Juilliard Orchestra, conducted by Itzhak Perlman, Andris Nelsons, David Robertson, James Gaffigan, and Bernard Labadie.

Daniel’s compositions have been performed in venues from London to Los Angeles, with commissions from the Madison Symphony Orchestra, American Guild of Organists, and Choir & Organ magazine. He was chosen to write inaugural works for the Miller-Scott Organ at St. Thomas Church Fifth Avenue and the Hazel Wright Organ at Christ Cathedral in Garden Grove, CA, where two of his works were recorded by Gothic Records. Ficarri studied composition with the late Rachel Laurin. Much of Daniel’s music is published by ECS Publishing Group.