The Sir Ernest MacMillan Memorial Foundation is pleased to announce that Mr. Manuel Piazza is the winner of the Sir Ernest MacMillan Memorial Foundation Prize of $7,500 in organ performance. He is currently the Interim Assistant Director of Music at Trinity Church in the City of Boston. In May 2022, he graduated with an MM from the Yale Institute of Sacred Music.

Mr. Piazza developed a passion for sacred music while attending St. Michael's Choir School in Toronto. He completed his undergraduate studies in Organ Performance at the University of Toronto, studying repertoire with John Tuttle and conducting with Ivars Taurins. In July of 2023 he will be returning to Toronto as Assistant Director of Music at St. Thomas’s Anglican Church, where John Tuttle was the organist-choirmaster for many years.