Ilaria Centorrino was born in Messina (Italy) in 1998. She started studying piano during her childhood and later on in 2013 she has begun to study organ at the “A. Corelli” Music Conservatory in Messina (Sicily). In 2014 she moved to the “S.Giacomantonio” Music Concervatory in Cosenza where she now attends the Bachelor organ course with prof. Emanuele Cardi. She has performed organ concerts in Italy, Switzerland and England and attended masterclasses with some of the most important organ professors such as Jurgen Essl, Guy Bovet, Ludger Lohmann, Theo Jellema, Masaaki Suzuki, Christophe Mantoux and Daniel Zaretsky. In 2016 she won the First prize at “Tisia” International Organ Competition, the Second prize (first prize not awarded) and “Franz Zanin” special prize at 5th International Organ Competition “Organi storici del Basso Friuli”, Second prize at the 6th International Organ Competition “Premio Elvira Di Renna” in Faiano. She has been one of the semifinalists at the International Organ Competition in Groningen and Wiesbaden (ed. 2017). During the same year she has been awarded as one of the excellences of Italian Conservatories, winner of prizes in international competitions, by the President of Italian Chamber of Deputee, On. Laura Boldrini.
In 2018 she was selected to compete in the International Organ Competition in Nürnberg, she was highly commended during the Northern Ireland International Organ Competition in Armagh and she won the First prize at “XIII Premio delle Arti 2018”, the national organ competition between all the Italian Conservatoires’s organ students. She has been chosen as one of the three finalists in the Miami International Organ Competition (February 2019) where She won the third prize.
In November 2018 she has recorded her first CD for Urania Record at the organ of the Pinchi of the church of S. Giorgio in Ferrara, dedicated to the Italian influence in Northern European organ music. In September 2019 She won the first prize at the “Fondazione Friuli” competition in Udine (Italy) in which the jury’s president was Olivier Latry and in October of the same year she won the third prize at the “Sweelick Organ Competition” in Amsterdam.