Paolo Oreni was born in 1979 and began his musical studies with the organ at the age of 11 with Walter Zaramella at the Gaetano Donizetti Institute of Music Studies. In 2000 he received a scholarship from the Ministry of Culture of Luxembourg and the Cooperative Credit Bank of Treviglio and moved to Luxembourg where he won First Place in the "Prix Interrégional-Diplôme de Concert" International Competition (2002). He studied with Jean-Paul Imbert and Lydia Baldecchi Arcuri. A crucial moment in his career was meeting the maestro Jean Guillou at the master classes he attended at the Church of St. Eustache in Paris and at the Tonhalle in Zurich (Stiftung für Internationale Meisterkurse für Musik). He has won several awards at international competitions, including an Honourable Mention at the Ville de Paris Competition in 2004. He has performed at La Scala in Milan and with orchestras such as the LaVerdi Symphonic Orchestra of Milan, the Jeune Orchestre of Paris, the Chamber Orchestra of Bolzano, the Symphonisches Orchester Zürich and the Bochumer Symphoniker. He works intensely as a soloist and with orchestras and chamber groups, with over 100 concerts a year at the world's most important auditoriums and churches. Since 2006 he has been regularly invited by the Diocese of Munich to the Basilica of Ottobeuren and the Cathedral of Altemberg to give master classes in improvisation and the organ repertoire.