Born in 1993 in Montpellier (France), Emmanuel CULCASI began his musical studies at age 6 in Aix-en-Provence and Marseille in piano performance under the instruction of Michel Bourdoncle and in the organ classes of Chantal De Zeeuw and André Rossi.
From 2004 to 2011, he was awarded a dozen of first and second prizes at several levels of national or international piano competitions, such as Claude Kahn, Steinway & Sons, Simone Delbert Fevrier among others.
In 2012, he then attented the organ class of the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique (CNSMD) of Lyon under the tuition of François Espinasse and Liesbeth Schlumberger.
In 2015, he obtained his Bachelor of Music in organ performance and a Bachelor’s degrees in musicology at Lyon 2 University, both with highest honour. He is currently in the second year of his Master’s degree program in organ performance at CNSMD in Lyon.
Upon being awarded in 2014 a two-years research fellowship, he attented the CNRS-Aix-Marseille University and began a research program focusing on the impact of music training on brain’s structural plasticity and long term memory interactions.
Emmanuel is currently learning music pedagogy as a graduate teaching assistant in piano, with a research program aiming at defining improved music based therapies to help children with autism.
Trained as a musician and a scientist, he is planning a versatile career as a concertist, collaborative scientist, and educator.
In parallel, Emmanuel CULCASI is currently pursuing his musical studies in Pierre Pincemaille’s class of Fugue and Counterpoint in Saint-Germain-en-Laye and he is still studying piano with Romano Pallottini in Paris.
From 2004 to 2015, he has attended numerous masterclasses and participated in summer programs under the tuition of renowned concertists such as Ingo Bredenbach, Bernard Foccroulle, Paolo Crivellaro, Jacques Van Oortmerssen, Jean-Baptiste Robin, and pianists such as Vladimir Viardo, Paul Posnak, Konstantin Lifschitz, Jacques Rouvier, Jean Martin, Sylviane Deferne, Carlos Roque Alsina, Romano Pallottine, among others.
Emmanuel Cculcasi has performed in many festivals and recital series as pianist (Nuits pianistiques in Aix-en-Provence, Honegger’s King David (an European Project under Jean-François Senart) or as organist (Abbaye Saint-Victor in Marseille, Estivales in Megève, Collégiale du Château in Grignan, Cathedral Notre-Dame de Paris, Ars Sacra Fesztival in Budapest, Hungary, etc…). His activities also include concerts with orchestras, and several duet projects and concerts as a piano accompanist. He is pursuing intense collaborations with saxophonists, oboists and trumpetists.
Since 2016, Emmanuel Culcasi is appointed as one of the organists “co-titulaires” at the 1854/80 Ducroquet/Cavaillé-Coll organ at Saint-Sauveur cathedral in Aix-en-Provence with Chantal De Zeeuw.