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Hansa Organ Festival - Program english

In 2024, the Hansa Organ Project invited to a competition among composers in Hanseatic cities. A jury, chaired by Professor Hans Fagius, approved nine compositions, these musical pieces will have their first performances during the Hansa Organ Festival.

Program in Visby Cathedral Sankta Maria

 

5 June, at 22.00
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
Messe Solenelle by Louis Vierne.
Sankta Maria Cathedral Choir, Visby.
Krzysztof Urbaniak och Elke Unt, organ.

Nicolas Berndt, Naumburg, organ.

6 June at 12.00
Carrillon bells from the southern tower

6 June at 15.00
Piet Lincken, Brügge, organ.

Christian Drengk, Dortmund, organ.

6 June at 19.00 
Diane Jaunzame – Portnaja, organ, Jekabs Bernats, tenor, Riga.
(Jekabs Bernats: Faust nach Riga, first performance).
NN, harp, Viktorija Majore, soprano, Riga (Renate Stivrina: Seaside, first performance).

The choir Ad Fontes conducted by Dan Eiderfors, Visby.

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

Roberta Daugelaite, Kaunas, organ, Vaidas Bartusas, Kaunas, song.

7 June at 11.00
Hubertusmesse by Hermann Baumann.
Natural Horn Ensemble of Warstein, Brilon.  
Peter Alrikson, Visby, organ.

Lelde Krastina, Cesis, organ, Artis Simanis, Cesis, saxophone, (Marite Dombrovska: The Voice of Ancient Times, first performance). 

7 June at 15.00
Studentsångarföreningen from Bergen (men’s choir) conducted by Håvard Strömmen.

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

7 June at 19.00
Marciej Zakrzewski, Gdansk, organ, (Maciej Zakrzewski: Zeit der Zeiten, first performance).

Ulfert Smidt, Hannover, organ.

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

June 8 at 11.00
Tobias Langwiesh, organ, Julia Kröner, violin, Alfeld.

Concerts in coungtryside churches

Sanda church: Christian Drengk, Dortmund, orgel.
Stenkyrka church:  Krzysztof Urbaniak, Krakow, orgel.

 

 
 

Hansa Organ Festival 5 – 8 juni 2025

The idea behind the festival Visby Cathedral Parish came together with organists from Lübeck, Krakow and Visby to discuss the possibilities to introduce organ music as part of the program at the Hanseatic Day, 5-8 June 2025.

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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