From 16 to 29 September the Concert Hall of the Mariinsky Theatre will host the V International Organ Festival. This year the music forum, much loved by St Petersburg audiences, will present seven programmes performed by musicians from Russia, Italy, France, Great Britain and Poland as well as a special event – an organ concert for children.
On 16 September the V International Organ Festival will open with a performance by Alexei Parshin, Honoured Artist of the Russian Federation. The programme Around Bach, in addition to works by the German composer himself, will feature music by Johann Pachelbel, Dieterich Buxtehude, Karl Philipp Emanuel Bach and Louis Marchand. The concert by Italian organist and harpsichord-player Peter Kofler, who will be making his debut at the Concert Hall of the Mariinsky Theatre, will also be dedicated to Johann Sebastian Bach (17 September).
Another festival debutant on 28 September will be David Cassan, principal organist of the Église Réformée de l'Oratoire du Louvre in Paris and prize-winner at the Grand Prix de Chartres organ competition (2016). Also appearing for the first time as a prize-winner of that prestigious competition, the jury of which over the years has been headed by Pierre Cochereau, Gaston Litaize and Marie-Claire Alain among other acclaimed French musicians, will be the young Polish organist Karol Mossakowski, a pupil of Thierry Escaich and Olivier Latry (23 September). Both programmes are to include works by French and German composers from differing eras and improvisations.
On 22 September there will be a concert by the renowned British musician Thomas Trotter, Birmingham City Organist and organist of St Margaret's Church, Westminster Abbey. The programme is to include works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Dan Locklair, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach and Charles Villiers Stanford as well as transcriptions of works by Felix Mendelssohn and Gioachino Rossini.
On 24 September the festival playbill will see two events: at 14.00 young viewers will have the opportunity to discover the unique sound of the “king of instruments” as part of an Organ Concert for Children, and at 19.00 St Petersburg organist Marina Väisä will perform works by Russian, Finnish and German composers.
The V International Organ Festival will come to a close with a performance by the brilliant French organist, teacher and composer Thierry Escaich (who has produced more than a hundred works) accompanied by the Mariinsky Orchestra. The programme will include works by Samuel Barber, Felix Mendelssohn, Marcel Dupré and Louis Vierne, as well as several of Thierry Escaich’s own compositions. Valery Gergiev will be conducting (29 September).
| user_name | | Exit |
