The new season in the Belarusian State Philharmonic will open the program “Vivat, organ!” on September 15

The Belarusian State Philharmonic will open the XXI season with the program “Vivat, organ!” on September 15, the correspondent of the Minsk-Novosti news agency reports.

The project “Masterpieces of World Organ Art”, which includes a concert, this year celebrates its 20th anniversary. For two decades, Belarusian musicians and stars of world organ performance took part in it.

“The author of the programs and their host is the candidate of art history, associate professor, member of the Belarusian Union of Composers, the Belarusian Union of Musical Figures, the Society for the Theory of Music (Russia) and Gesellschaft für Musikforschung (Germany) Olga Savitskaya,” BelTA was told in the Belarusian State Philharmonic.

The program of the first concert of the new season "Viva, organ!" will feature works by Johann Bach, as well as works by Sergei Rachmaninov, Johannes Brahms and other masters of the XVIII-XX centuries.

Masterpieces of world classics will be presented by the famous Dutch organist, pianist, performer of sacred music, conductor and teacher Jean-Pierre Stivers, who is the chief organist of the Cathedral in Rourmond and the Limburg Symphony Orchestra. The musician regularly performs concerts in Europe, the USA and Japan.