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The 50th Anniversary International Organ Festival at St Albans in 2013:
11-20 July 2013


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Saturday Organ Concert Series.


Andrew Dewar

Winner of the First Prize and Audience Prize, Interpretation Competition, St Albans, 2005

Saturday 20 October 2007 at 5.30pm – St Peter's Church

 

Andrew Dewar Chorale Fantasia on O God our help in ages past C Hubert H PARRY
(1848-1918)
From the Art of Fugue: Fuga a 3 Soggetti (BWV 1080/19)
Johann Sebastian BACH (1685 -1750)

 

Chorale Prelude: Vor deinen Thron tret ich hiermit (BWV 668)

J S BACH
Variationen über Weinen Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen (S673) Franz LISZT
(1811-1886)

Cathedral Windows Op 106

Kyrie eleison, Ave Maria, Resonet in laudibus, Adeste fideles, Saluto angelico, Lauda Sion

Sigfried KARG- ELERT
(1877-1933)
Andrew Dewar studied organ in the UK with Rupert Gough, David Sanger, David Briggs (improvisation) before moving to Germany where he is currently studying at the Musikhochschule, Stuttgart with Prof Dr Ludger Lohmann, and holds posts as organist of two churches in Stuttgart. He has won several prizes at international competitions including St Albans in 2003 and 2005.

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Dong-Ill Shin

Winner of Grand Prix de Chartres, 2006

Saturday 24 November 2007 at 5.30 pm – St Saviour's Church

Dong-ill Shin

Voluntary for Double Organ

Henry PURCELL
(1659-1695)

Magnificat Primi Toni (BuxWV 203)

Dietrich BUXTEHUDE
(1637-1707)

Trio Sonata in G major (BWV 530)

Johann Sebastian BACH (1685 -1750)

  Chorale prelude: Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland (BuxWV 180) Dietrich BUXTEHUDE
  Chorale prelude: Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland (BWV659) J S BACH
  Prelude and Fugue in E minor (BWV 548) J S BACH
Dong-Ill Shin is a prizewinner in several international competitions including Chartres in 2006. He studied in his native Korea and then in France with Jean Boyer, Michel Bouvard and Olivier Latry. He now lives and works in the USA

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Henry Fairs

Winner of the Second Prize, Interpretation competition, St Albans 2005

Saturday 19 January 2008 at 5.30 pm - St Peter's Church

Henry Fairs Prélude sur l'Introit de l'Épiphanie Op 13

Maurice DURUFLÉ

(1902-1986)

Fugue sur le thème du Carillon des Heures de la Cathédral de Soissons Op 12

M DURUFLÉ

Concerto in A minor (after Vivaldi) (BWV 593)

(Allegro) - Adagio - Allegro

Johann Sebastian BACH
(1685-1750)
Fugue on a theme of Legrenzi (BWV 574) J S BACH

Zweite Sonate in d-Moll, Op 60

Improvisation, Invokation, Introduktion und Fuge

Max REGER

(1873-1916)

from La Nativité du Seigneur

Les Mages, Dieu parmi nous

Olivier MESSIAEN
(1908-1992)

Henry Fairs is organist to the University of Birmingham and an organ tutor at the Birmingham Conservatoire. He has been a prizewinner in several major organ competitions including Dublin, Paris, Chartres and St Albans, and in 2007 he won both First Prize and Special Prize at the Odense International Organ Competition in Denmark.

 

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David Sanger

 


Saturday 23 February 2008 at 5.30 - St Peter's Church

 

David Sanger Praeludium in E flat Georg D LEYDING (1664-1710)

Three Chorale preludes from Clavier Übung, Part 3

Kyrie, Gott Vater in Ewigkeit (BWV 669)

Christe, aller Welt Trost (BWV 670)

Kyrie, Gott Heiliger Geist (BWV 671)


Johann Sebastian BACH
(1685 - 1750)

from Messe de la Pentecôte

Communion (Les oiseaux et les sources)

Olivier MESSIAEN (1908-1992)

From 2ème Symphonie

Choral, Scherzo

Louis VIERNE (1870-1937)

Sonata in G minor (1924)

Marcia elegiaca, Adagio, Alla sarabanda, Finale

Oskar LINDBERG (1887-1955)
David Sanger began his career winning two First Prizes at International Organ Competitions: St Albans in 1969 and Kiel, Germany in 1972. He studied at the Royal Academy of Music and with Susi Jeans, Marie-Claire Alain and Anton Heiller. A renowned teacher, he was Professor of Organ at the Royal Academy of Music, Visiting Tutor in organ studies at the Royal Northern College of Music, and has been teacher of organ at Oxford and Cambridge Universities for over 25 years.

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Anne Page

 

 


 

Saturday 29 March 2008 at 5.30 - St Saviour's Church

 

Anne Page A programme of music by: Johann Sebastian BACH
(1685 - 1750)
Prelude and Fugue in E major (BWV 566)
 
Partita: Ach, was soll ich Sünder machen (BWV 970)

Trio Sonata No 6 in G (BWV 530)
Chorale prelude: Jesus Christus, unser Heiland (BWV 665) from The Leipzig Chorales
Prelude and Fugue in E minor (BWV 548)

Anne Page is from Perth, Australia and moved to Europe to continue advanced studies successively with Marie-Claire Alain, Peter Hurford and Jacques van Oortmerssen. Based in Cambridge, she directed the Cambridge Summer Recitals and is now on the staff of the Royal Academy of Music.

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David Goode

Saturday 26 April 2008 at 5.30 - St Peter's Church

David Goode Prelude and Fugue in D minor Op 37 No 3 Felix MENDELSSOHN (1809-1847)
Trio Sonata No 1 in E flat (BWV 525)
Johann Sebastian BACH
(1685 - 1750)
Diptyque

Olivier MESSIAEN (1908-1992)

Chorale prelude: Vater unser im Himmelreich (BWV 682) J S BACH

Phantasie und Fuge über den Namen

B-A-C-H Op 46

Max REGER (1873-1916)
David Goode was Organ Scholar at King's College, Cambridge where he studied with David Sanger, and in Holland with Jacques van Oortmerssen. He was subsequently Sub-Organist at Christ Church, Oxford and then Organist-in-Residence at First Congregational Church, Los Angeles, home to the world's largest church organ. He is now Organist and Head of Keyboard at Eton College.

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Emmanuel Hocdé

Saturday 24 May 2008 at 5.30 - St Peter's Church

Winner of Grand Prix de Chartres 2002

Emmanuel Hocde Prelude and Fugue in E flat (BWV 552)) Johann Sebastian BACH
(1685 - 1750)

Präludium und Fuge über das Thema

B-A-C-H (S260)

Franz LISZT (1811-1886)

from 3ème Symphonie

Adagio

Louis VIERNE (1870-1937)

from 4ème Symphonie

Final

Auguste FOUCHARD (1881-1957)
Chorale prelude: Herzlich tut mich verlangen Op 122 Johannes BRAHMS (1833-1886)

Suite Op 5 Maurice DURUFLÉ (1902-1986)
Emmanuel Hocdé studied in Paris with Michel Chapuis and Olivier Latry, and since winning the first prize in Chartres in 2002 has been invited to play in many organ festivals in Europe and the USA. He is now organist of St Eloi in Paris and a notable teacher of the organ in France.

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