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Hansa Organ Festival - Programme english

On occasion of the Hanseatic Day, 5-8 June, the first Hansa Organ Festival will be held with participants from 15 Hanseatic cities. Visby Cathedral Sankta Maria is the main venue for the festival. Furthermore, five concerts in countryside churches.

See the programme below.

Download the Hansa Organ Festival Program.

 

5 June, at 22.00 hrs

Peter Alrikson, Visby, Organ. (Noa Edwardsson, Vår fader, first performance).

Krzysztof Urbaniak, Krakow, Organ.
(Maija Solovjova: Fantasia Festiva Hansensis, first performance).

6 June at 11.00 hrs
Messe Solenelle by Louis Vierne. Sankta Maria Cathedral Choir, Visby.
Krzysztof Urbaniak and Elke Unt, Organ.

Nicolas Berndt, Naumburg, Organ.

6 June at 12.00 hrs
Carillon music from the South Tower.

6 June at 15.00 hrs
Piet Lincken, Brügge, Organ. Christian Drengk, Dortmund, Organ.

6 June at 19.00 hrs
Diāna Jaunzame – Portnaja, Organ Jekabs Bernats, Tenor, Riga.
(Jekabs Bernats: Faust nach Riga, first performance).

The choir Ad Fontes conducted by Dan Eiderfors, Visby.

6 June at 22.00 hrs
Valentin Manß Lübeck, Organ (Valentin Manss: Vater unser och Erhalt uns, Herr, bei Deinem Wort, first performances).

Roberta Daugélaité, Kaunas, Organ Vaidas Bartusas, Kaunas, Countertenor

7 June at 11.00 hrs
Hubertusmesse by Hermann Baumann.

Natural Horn Ensemble of Warstein, Brilon.
Peter Alrikson, Visby, Organ.

Lelde Krastiņa, Cēsis, Organ, Artis Sīmanis, Cēsis , saxophone, (Mārīte Dombrovska: The Voice of Ancient Times, first performance).

7 June at 15.00 hrs
Studentsångarföreningen from Bergen conducted by Ole-Andreas Førde.

Christian Thadewald-Friedrich, Wismar, Organ. (Christian Thadewald- Friedrich: The Devils Lattice, first performance).

7 June at 19.00 hrs
Dr. Marciej Zakrzewski, Gdansk, Organ, (Marciej Zakrzewski: Zeit der Zeiten, first performance).

Ulfert Smidt, Hannover, Organ.

June 7 at 22.00 hrs
Go Bach to Sleep, late evening concert with the festival’s organists.

June 8 at 11.00 hrs
Tobias Langwiesh, Organ, Julia Kröner, Violin, Alfeld.

 

Concerts in Countryside Churches

  • Sanda church 5 June , at 19.00 hrs
  • Hemse church 6 June, at 18.00 hrs
  • Kräklingbo church 7 June, at 17.00 hrs
  • Västerhejde church 7 June, at 18.00 hrs
  • Stenkyrka church 8 June, at 17.00 hrs

 

 

Hansa Organ Project

The Hansa Organ Project is a collaboration between several Hanseatic cities under the leadership of Sankta Maria Cathedral in Visby. The goal of the project is to publish an organ book with new compositions and to establish an organ festival.

Inger Harlevi

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