Aurelio Porfiri

Missa simplex

Aurelio Porfiri is director of choral activities at the Saint Rosa de Lima school and Director of Musical Activities at Our Lady of Fatima Girls School. He is visiting conductor for the music education dept. of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music China - . As a composer, he writes in a wide range of forms, including oratorios, masses, motets and hymns in Italian, Latin and English. Da nobis famulis Tuis start with an invocation from pp to ff on the name Jesu Christe. Here the choir is divided basically in male choir and female choir that are in dialogue until the culmen on the name of Jesus. What the lyrics are asking is the protection of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Also in this piece the music is deeply routed in the roman school of sacred music but with modern harmonic flavor