Festival 2009
The 25th International Organ Festival at St Albans will take place from 9th to 18th July 2009.
We are devoted to promoting "the King of Instruments" as a solo instrument in its own right as well as an instrument capable of performing in a variety of musical contexts.
The Festival is staged every two years - predominantly in the magnificent historic Norman St Albans Cathedral - attracts artists, musicians and performers of the highest calibre from all around the world.
St Albans, England is 30 kilometres north of London.
25th International Organ Festival at St Albans
The exciting programme for the 2009
International Organ Festival at St Albans was announced by the Artistic
Director at the Annual General Meeting and dinner held on 14th February
To see highlights, go to the festivals page
Booking
The full programme can now be accessed in pdf form, and public booking has now started - for detailed information about the ways you can buy tickets, see our page telling you How to Book
The Competitions
From 49 applications representing 19 countries,the pre-selection jury has selected the following competitors for the 25th International Organ Competitions at Albans.
Interpretation Competition
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Maria Mokhova Kyle Babin Andreas Jud Han Mi Kang Konstantin Volostnov Brent Stamey Linda Sitkova Peter Kovats Gerhard Loeffler Ilia Kudryavtsev Szabo Balazs Tatiana Konina Jean-Willy Kunz Sarah Kim Coralie Amedjkane Simon Menges |
Russia USA Switzerland Korea Russia USA Czech Republic Hungary Germany Russia Hungary Russia France Australia France Germany |
Improvisation Competition
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Ronny Krippner Jason Roberts Peter Kovats Jean-Baptiste Dupont Robert Kovacs Stefano Barberino |
Germany USA Hungary France Hungary Italy |
Members Area
Are you a member of the International Organ Festival Society? If so, you can now browse in your own Members Area. The user name and password has been repeated in the January 2009 Newsletter, but if you have lost it, or are a new member, please contact the Administration Secretary by going to the Contact Us page. Current and back numbers of the newsletter are available on the website in pdf format as well as news of particular interest to members.
Speech by Piet Kee
By popular request, Piet Kee's speech at the AGM of the International Organ Festival Society is now available to read on the website.
NEW: a video of Piet Kee playing the St Albans Waltz is available here
Saturday Organ Concerts
The 2008-2009 Saturday Organ Concert series has now finished - watch this space for news of the 2009-2010 series, starting in the autumn.
You can read an interview with the final soloist in 2009, Robert Quinney, in our Meet the Artist series.
Meet the Artist Archive
You can read interviews with artists from our concert series in our Meet the Artist archives
2005-6, 2006-7, 2007-8 and 2008-9
Contacts
Click on these links to contact the Artistic Director
or the Chairman.
Pictures.....
You can see sketches of the Organ Competition by Festival host David Lumsdon, as well as photographs
of the 2007 prizegiving
How you can help the IOF
Find out here how you can help the Organ Festival financially
