Rev. Armando Pierucci was born in Maiolati Spontini (Ancona), Italy, on September 3,1935. He graduated from the Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music in Rome, from the Conservatory of Naples, and from the Conservatory G. Rossini of Pesaro. His majors were organ, conducting, and composing. He has conducted choirs and given organ recitals in Italy, Greece, Cyprus, and the Holy Land. Since 1988, he has been the organist at the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. Until 1999, he was Chief Editor of the Italian magazine entitled La Terra Santa (Holy Land). Presently, he is professor of sacred music at the Studium Theologicum Jerusolymitanum and Director of the Magnificat Musical Institute.
From WHO IS WHO IN THE CHURCHES OF JERUSALEM,E.J.,Art Printing Press. 1998
