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Enrico Euron started studying music at the age of 7, thanks to the teaching of the elderly organist of the church of Castagnole delle Lanze, the village near Asti where Enrico Euron was born and had grew up.
At the age of 13 he attended the Conservatory G. Verdi of Turin.
He graduated in Organ and Organistic Composition with Master Guido Donati, then gained The First Degree in Composition.
He deepened the study of middle-age music, then, during a special performance in Forlimpopoli, he met and began collaborating with Marco Ambrosini member of the Clemencic Consort.
In the meanwhile he continued to study Violin and orchestra conduction.
After graduation Enrico Euron began his live performing career as organist, then in 1985 became Master of Organ and Orchestra Performing for the Musical association of Collegno, Turin.
At that time he also was co-director and harpsichord performer for the orchestra “Il Ruscello” in Turin.
His first compositions, “Divertimento per pianoforte e orchestra” 1986 and “Fanfara per un deportato” 1988, were really appreciated.
For three years he has been director of Harmonia Mundi Orchestra in Turin. He also began to study Ethnomusicology at University of Literature in Turin.
His historical and musical interests led him to the great Irish and Breton heritage.
Since 1993 he travelled across Brittany: he studied celtic harp with Myrdhin, took part at the “Trophee International Carolan” (classed third) then at the “Trophee International Aiwan” where he received a particular mention from the Judges for his composition called “Ered Lomin”.
Fans can find this harp composition in Enrico Euron’s first album, “Aisling”.
During the years he maintained contacts in Brittany, but he also started studying the traditional technique of celtic harp in Ireland. His masters were Emer Mc Laverty and Michael Rooney, member of the “Belfast Harp Orchestra”. In the following years he started his own career as live performer in celtic harp playing his magical instrument all over Europe: Italy, France, Ireland and Germany.
He continued his studies in Scotland with Savourna Stevenson, meanwhile in Italy he received the title of Master of celtic harp by the musical association of Collegno.
Thanks to his historical and musical studies  he started co-operating with University, particularly with Prof.ssa Melita Cataldi, teacher of History of Irish Literature in Turin.
In the year 1995 the band Tuatha De Danann was born. Enrico Euron is the soul, the creator of the band that works with the ancient musical repertory trying to play it following an historical approach.
From the beginning the concerts of Tuatha De Danann had a lot of success, the various and different audience really love them, thanks also to the fact that the members of the band usually tell a story or a part of it to introduce their songs.
Enrico Euron left the “classical” way of performing and played all over Italy with Tuatha  De Danann.
In 1997 he won second place, after his teacher, at the “ O’ Carolan harp competition” a very important competition in Ireland. This period was very busy with lots of seminars and meetings about the history of Irish music and the traditional techniques for celtic harp.
In the same year he also started to work with  magazines such as Keltica and Avalon, television networks and national radio.
In 1999 while the concerts of Tuatha De Danann raised more than 300 only in Italy,  their cd “Duana” was performed at theatre.
In the year 2001, thanks to the help and collaboration of some tuatha de  danann members, he organized “Feasta”, an international festival of celtic harp. In his first edition the festival has registered an audience of thousand people all over North Italy.
In the same year he also started to take conferences about the traditional technique of celtic harp in different conservatories (Verona, Sassari, Lugano, Trento)  in Musical Institutions in Italy and abroad (Accademia del Fortepiano di Firenze, Rencontres Internationales a Dinan)
These courses were basically thought for musicians and teachers, however they had a lot of success especially because they were talking about instruments and musical worlds that sometimes seems to be hidden inside the dark of the past. These courses had become a moment of reunion for all the people who love celtic harp.
In 2002 Enrico Euron became the teacher of a sperimental course about perfectioning in celtic harp at Castelfranco Veneto University. At this time this is the only University in Italy that has created a specific course in celtic harp. Then Enrico Euron was committed to teach at the International Course of High Improvement in celtic harp at the Roman Academy.
In 2003, with all the best students of the Conservatory the band “Celtic Harp Ensemble” was born, they  issued a cd, they played a lot  of concerts also in Brittany.
In the year 2004 another band, the duo Harp and Guitar was born. Enrico Euron together with Marco Picca, a folk guitar player. The duo really brought a new consciousness about Irish music in Italy.
Enrico Euron played with the most important Italian and European performers of celtic harp such as Vincenzo Zitello, Myrdhin, Grainne Hambly, Stafano Corsi, Jochen Vogel, Phil Holland and played as guest performer for the Irish group The Chieftains in 2003 and 2004 tournee.
He’s been invited as honoured guest at some Italian and International meetings. “Folk Club” in Turin, Palazzo Te in Mantova, Church of Saint Giulia In Brescia, Vittorio Emanuele Theatre in Messina, Rencontres internationales d’harpe celtique in Bretagne, Festival Celtico in Courmayeur, for hundreds of exciting performances.
At present he’s the artistic director for Sacra di San Michele, the monument that is the symbol of Regione Piemonte. For this incredible abbey located on the top of a mountain he wrote a special opera, the “missa in dedicatione sancti Michaelis Arcangeli” performed in the church of the abbey in June 2008 executed by the orchestra Stefano Tempia, directed by Maestro Massimo Peiretti.
A huge success of audience and critics.