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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

 

 

  

 

 

Artistic DirectorThe 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

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

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.


 

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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

 


 

 

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