ORGANI BONATO

Diego Bonato's professional qualifications and training are essentially those of the autodidact. Born in Verona, Italy, in 1959, he began to study the piano at a very early age and attended the Verona Conservatorio where he studied the organ under Renzo Buja; at the same time he attended the Institute of Art where he studied in particular the history of art and design. He explored the technical, aesthetic and practical aspects as the basis for the creation of every type of manufactured artefact... These three areas of study (music/art, design and manual dexterity) werw apparently explored not in a planned programme, and without doing a formal apprenticeship, or through a family tradition, which is usual for aspiring organ-builders... This fact, that he does not come from a traditional "school" of organ-building, although he possesses the obviously necessary technical-artistic training, competence and knowledge, is perhaps the most important single characteristics of Diego Bonato.