Monday, October 16, 2023
St. James’s Church (Sankt Jakobs kyrka) – Keyboard Instrument Collection
14:30-17:00
(Admission free)

Strings and Pipes, Bows and Keyboards: Exploring the echoes of violin music in keyboard repertoire

Edoardo Bellotti, moderator

The development of stringed instruments and in particular the role played by the violin – considered in the Baroque period Orpheus’ instrument – strongly influenced keyboard music both from a stylistic and technical-executive point of view.

The seminar will focus on some aspects of this relationship: the influence of violin idioms on musical figures, the transcription of the instrumental repertoire (for example Bach/Vivaldi), the stylistic changes deriving from the development of the “ritornello” in keyboard music and aspects of performance praxis and articulation.

Presentations by Joel Speerstra (Bach, violin music and the clavichord), Annette Richards (18th-century English transcriptions), William Porter and Edoardo Bellotti (the influences of Vivaldi and the repertoire inspired by the violin) will be accompanied by practical demonstrations that will engage the participants in the discussion.

Monday October 16, 2023, 14.30–17.00 – Afternoon Seminar: Speerstra, Richards, Porter, Bellotti

Tuesday October 16, 2023
Vasa Parish Hall 14:30–17:00
(Tickets 100/50 SEK)

GIOA Sound Documentation
www.organacademy.se

Afternoon Seminar: Echoes of Older Composers in the Works of Max Reger – Max Reger’s Organ Music and Principles of Their Performance
Ludger Lohmann, presenter

The seminar will explore the various groups of Reger’s organ works and their typicalcompositional features, including parallels between larger and smaller forms, and also some references to older composers. Concerning performance, the most essential parameters will be addressed: tempo and agogics, phrasing and articulation, and registration.

SOUND RECORDING
LUMIÈRE LIINASON

Göteborg International Organ Festival
October 11-22, 2023
Echoes
https://www.organacademy.org/programme-overview

Tuesday October 17, 2023, 14.30–17.00 – Afternoon Seminar: Max Reger – Ludger Lohmann

St. James’s Church (Sankt Jakobs kyrka) 14:30–17:00
(Tickets 100/50 SEK) https://billetto.se/e/afternoon-seminar-echoes-of-the-ancient-world-come-and-meet-the-muses-putting-classical-archetypes-to-work-for-us-as-inspirations-for-performance-biljetter-883807

GIOA Sound Documentation
www.organacademy.se

Afternoon Seminar: Echoes of the Ancient World: Come and Meet the Muses! Putting Classical Archetypes to work for us as inspirations for performance

Joel Speerstra, moderator
Ruth Tatlow, and Christa Rakich, joined by Ulrika Davidsson and Andreas Edlund

Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer (1656–1746) wrote suites based on the nine muses of classical mythology. How much do we know about these goddesses, and how much of their characters did Fischer realize in the pieces? The 17th-century keyboard composers drew on these archetypes and many others from sources like Ovid’s Metamorphoses to make emblematic keyboard literature that expresses rhetorical stories we can decode today. How can we use our new knowledge of these archetypes in our performances and get deeper enjoyment of this music as listeners? This seminar will focus on starting to own these archetypes again as performers and musical orators.
Presentations will include the following:

– Christa Rakich (joined by Davidsson, Speerstra, and Edlund) will celebrate the anniversary of William Byrd (1543–1623), whose music was published in the first emblematic book of keyboard music, Parthenia, ca. 1612.

– Edoardo Bellotti will open a window into the art of oratory from the Prima e seconda prattica focusing particularly on the “Possente spirto” from Monteverdi’s Orfeo, as the perfect Model of Rhetoric.

– Joel Speerstra will unpack some of his research into codes and musical puzzles especi- ally drawing the portraits of the Muses present in Fischer and Pachelbel.

– Ruth Tatlow will present new research on when and why voices break into unison and octaves in texted music 1680–1760. On a few memorable occasions Handel, Bach and others broke off their complex part writing and asked singers and instrumentalists to play a phrase or two in unison or at the octave. The effect is electrifying. Why would composers do such a thing? Drawing clues from the ancient understanding of proportions, and looking carefully at the words set in these phrases, Ruth will look for echoes of this practice in contemporary keyboard music – and ask what it might mean for the performer.

GIOA SOUND DOCUMENTATION
LUMIÈRE LIINASON

Göteborg International Organ Festival
October 11-22, 2023
Echoes
https://www.organacademy.org/programme-overview

Wednesday October 18, 2023, 14.30–17.00 – Afternoon Seminar: Muses!

Thursday October 19, 2023
Örgryte New Church 14:30–17:00
(Tickets 100/50 SEK) https://billetto.se/e/afternoon-seminar-jacques-nicolas-lemmens-1823-1881-biljetter-883809

GIOA Sound Documentation
www.organacademy.se

(Replacing Joris Verdin, who was unable to come due to illness)

Pioneering Female Organists and Composers –
English organ culture in the 19th century, the Bach revival, Elizabeth Stirling and representations of women at the organ. 

Pioneering women composers from the 19th and early 20th centuries, focusing on ways in which they embraced the contrapuntal tradition as well as elements of romanticism. 

Presenters: Annette Richards, Anne Laver, Kimberly Marshall and Christa Rakich

Göteborg International Organ Festival
October 11-22, 2023
https://www.organacademy.org/programme-overview

Thursday October 19, 2023, 14.30–17.00 – Afternoon Seminar: Pioneering Female Organists

GIOA SOUND DOCUMENTATION
Friday, October 20, 2023
Haga Church 14:30–17:00
(Tickets 100/50 SEK) https://billetto.se/e/afternoon-seminar-elfrida-andree-s-organ-music-biljetter-883813

GIOA Sound Documentation
www.organacademy.se

Afternoon Seminar: Elfrida Andrée’s Organ Music

Annette Richards, moderator
Johan Hammarström and Jonas Lundblad, presenters

A presentation of the new edition of the organ works, an exploration of performanceindications in the manuscripts, and a discussion of the context of Elfrida Andrée’s role as composer for the organ and organist in 19th-century Scandinavia.

SOUND RECORDING
LUMIÈRE LIINASON

Göteborg International Organ Festival
October 11-22, 2023
Echoes
https://www.organacademy.org/programme-overview

Friday October 20, 2023, 14.30–17.00 – Afternoon Seminar: Elfrida Andrée’s Organ Music

Exploring the MIDI possibilities of the Göteborg Concert Hall Organ
(PART II)
Hear PART I here: https://soundcloud.com/gioa-academy/exploring-the-midi-possibilities-of-the-goteborg-concert-hall-organ-i-with-organist-joris-verdin

Meeting with Joris Verdin, organist and musicologist, Professor and head of the organ department at the Antwerp Royal Conservatoire, Belgium.

FILM
LUMIÈRE LIINASON

www.organacademy.se

Exploring the MIDI possibilities of the Göteborg Concert Hall Organ (II) - with Joris Verdin

Exploring the MIDI possibilities of the Göteborg Concert Hall Organ
(PART I)
Hear PART II here: https://soundcloud.com/gioa-academy/exploring-the-midi-possibilities-of-the-goteborg-concert-hall-organ-ii-with-joris-verdin

Meeting with Joris Verdin, organist and musicologist, Professor and head of the organ department at the Antwerp Royal Conservatoire, Belgium.

FILM
LUMIÈRE LIINASON

www.organacademy.se


Exploring the MIDI possibilities of the Göteborg Concert Hall Organ (I) - with Joris Verdin

The GIOA Podcast #1

Reporting from Göteborg International Organ Festival
The Organ as a Mechanical Musical Marvel
October 11-20, 2019

Meet Dominik Göbel, Master Student, Organ and Related Keyboard Instruments, Academy of Music and Drama, Gothenburg University, and hear his concert at Gothenburg Cathedral Friday October 11, 12:00, 2019, during Göteborg International Organ Festival, October 11-20, 2019

See Dominik's concert program here:
https://www.facebook.com/events/395764268014801/

Photo: Jon Liinason

Podcast: Jon Liinason

Göteborg International Organ Festival
The Organ as Mechanical Musical Marvel
October 11-20, 2019

A World of Tactile Passion and New Sounds
www.organacademy.se

GIOA Podcast - GIOF 2019 - #1 / Dominic Göbel

The GIOA Podcast #2

Reporting from Göteborg International Organ Festival
The Organ as a Mechanical Musical Marvel
October 11-20, 2019

Meet Benjamin Kjell, Master Student, Organ and Related Keyboard Instruments, Academy of Music and Drama, Gothenburg University, and hear his concert at Gothenburg Cathedral Friday October 11, 12:00, 2019, during Göteborg International Organ Festival, October 11-20, 2019

See Benjamin's concert program here:
www.facebook.com/events/395764268014801/

Göteborg International Organ Festival
The Organ as Mechanical Musical Marvel
October 11-20, 2019

A World of Tactile Passion and New Sounds
www.organacademy.se

GIOA Podcast - GIOF 2019 - #2 / Benjamin Kjell

The GIOA Podcast #3

Reporting from Göteborg International Organ Festival
The Organ as a Mechanical Musical Marvel
October 11-20, 2019

Meet organist Ligita Sneibe and hear the following three pieces from her concert at Gothenburg Cathedral Saturday October 12, 2019 at 12:00.

SVEN-ERIC JOHANSON (1919–1997)
Mitt hjärtas melodi [The Melody of My Heart] (1990)

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Adagio C major for glass harmonica, KV 356

HÅKAN SUNDIN (b. 1961)
Solkraft [Sun Power] (2002, for Ligita Sneibe)
Light

See Ligita's full concert program here:
https://www.facebook.com/events/531494390920600/

Hear all GIOA Podcasts here:
https://www.organacademy.se/the-gioa-podcast

Photo: Sven Andersson

Podcast: Jon Liinason

Göteborg International Organ Festival
The Organ as Mechanical Musical Marvel
October 11-20, 2019

A World of Tactile Passion and New Sounds
www.organacademy.se

GIOA Podcast - GIOF 2019 - #3 / Ligita Sneibe

The GIOA Podcast #4

Reporting from Göteborg International Organ Festival
The Organ as a Mechanical Musical Marvel
October 11-20, 2019

Meet pianist, organist, pedagogue and director of music Ulrika Davidsson and musicologist, instrument builder and performer Joel Speerstra and hear the final piece from their concert at Haga Church Saturday October 12, 2019 at 14:00:

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART (1756–1791) Fantasy in F minor, K. 608

See Ulrika Davidsson's and Joel Speerstra's full concert program here:
https://www.facebook.com/events/553024105504191/

Hear all GIOA Podcasts here:
www.organacademy.se/the-gioa-podcast

Podcast: Jon Liinason

Göteborg International Organ Festival
The Organ as Mechanical Musical Marvel
October 11-20, 2019

A World of Tactile Passion and New Sounds
www.organacademy.se

GIOA Podcast - GIOF 2019 - #4 / Ulrika Davidsson & Joel Speerstra

The GIOA Podcast #5

Reporting from Göteborg International Organ Festival
The Organ as a Mechanical Musical Marvel
October 11-20, 2019

The Pop Up Museum of Mechanical Musical Marvels:
Fantasizing Fantasies with Joel Speerstra & Karin Nelson

JAN PIETERSZOON SWEELINCK (1562–1621) / Joel Speerstra
Chromatic Fantasy Improvisation / Karin Nelson

JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH (1685–1750) Chromatic Fantasy, BWV 903 / Joel Speerstra
Improvisation / Karin Nelson

CARL PHILIPP EMANUEL BACH (1714–1788) Fantasy in F sharp minor, Wq. 67 / Joel Speerstra
Improvisation/ Karin Nelson

See Joel Speerstra's and Karin Nelson's full program here:
https://www.facebook.com/events/707417656392358/

Hear all GIOA Podcasts here:
www.organacademy.se/the-gioa-podcast

Photos: Sven Andersson

Podcast: Jon Liinason

Göteborg International Organ Festival
The Organ as Mechanical Musical Marvel
October 11-20, 2019

A World of Tactile Passion and New Sounds
www.organacademy.se

GIOA Podcast - GIOF 2019 - #5 / Joel Speerstra & Karin Nelson

The GIOA Podcast #6

Reporting from Göteborg International Organ Festival
The Organ as a Mechanical Musical Marvel
October 11-20, 2019

Tuesday October 15, 2019
12.00–12.30 HAGA CHURCH
Lunch Concert
Annette Richards playing the Brombaugh organ (1992)

Meet organist, scholar and teacher Annette Richards and hear the following three pieces from her concert:

ASCANIO MAYONE (ca. 1570–1627)
from Diversi Capricci per Sonare, Libro I (Naples, 1603)
- “Ancidetemi pur” (Arcadelt)
- Partite sopra “Fidele”

WILLIAM BYRD (1543-1623)
The Bells

See Annettes full program and biography here:
https://www.facebook.com/events/469302570331504/

Hear all GIOA Podcasts here:
www.organacademy.se/the-gioa-podcast


Podcast: Jon Liinason

Göteborg International Organ Festival
The Organ as Mechanical Musical Marvel
October 11-20, 2019

A World of Tactile Passion and New Sounds
www.organacademy.se

GIOA Podcast - GIOF 2019 -  #6 / Annette Richards

The GIOA Podcast #7

Reporting from Göteborg International Organ Festival
The Organ as a Mechanical Musical Marvel
October 11-20, 2019

Wednesday October 16, 2019
12.00–12.30 HAGA CHURCH, Lunch Concert
Mattias Wager playing the Marcussen organ (1871) and the Brombaugh organ (1992)

Meet Mattias Wager and hear the following from his concert:

MATTIAS WAGER (b. 1967)
Improvisation on themes from Joseph Haydn’s music for a musical clock


See Mattias' full program and biography here:
https://www.facebook.com/events/759844884435664/

Hear all GIOA Podcasts here:
www.organacademy.se/the-gioa-podcast

Podcast: Jon Liinason

Göteborg International Organ Festival
The Organ as Mechanical Musical Marvel
October 11-20, 2019

A World of Tactile Passion and New Sounds
www.organacademy.se

GIOA Podcast - GIOF 2019 - #7 / Mattias Wager

The GIOA Podcast #8

Reporting from Göteborg International Organ Festival
The Organ as a Mechanical Musical Marvel
October 11-20, 2019

Meet Sverker Jullander and his registrants Arno Humal and Joel Bergström, and hear excerpts from Sverker's concert:

Thursday October 17, 2019
12.00–12.30 HAGA CHURCH (The concert is free, the soup is 40 SEK)
Lunch Concert

Sverker Jullander, organ

HARALD FRYKLÖF (1882–1919)
Impromptu festivo
Andante funèbre
Symfoniskt stycke [Symphonic piece]

See Sverker's full program and biography here:
https://www.facebook.com/events/555449131862299/

Hear all GIOA Podcasts here:
www.organacademy.se/the-gioa-podcast

Podcast: Jon Liinason

Göteborg International Organ Festival
The Organ as Mechanical Musical Marvel
October 11-20, 2019

A World of Tactile Passion and New Sounds
www.organacademy.se

GIOA Podcast - GIOF 2019 - #8 / Sverker Jullander & Arno Humal & Joel Bergström

The GIOA Podcast #9

Reporting from Göteborg International Organ Festival
The Organ as a Mechanical Musical Marvel
October 11-20, 2019

Meet Catalina Vicens and hear her concert from:

Friday October 18, 2019, Lunch Concert
12.00–12.30 HAGA CHURCH

Catalina Vicens, organetto

ANONYMOUS 13TH–14TH CENTURY “CODEX LAS HUELGAS”
Audi Pontus Benedicamus Domino

PRACH BOONDISKULCHOK (b. 1985)
Weeping (2019 for Catalina Vicens) from “Squonk Dyptich”

ANONYMOUS 14TH CENTURY
Che ti çova nascondere Chominciamento di gioia

ANONYMOUS 14TH CENTURY
Lucente Stella

CARSON COOMAN (b. 1982)
Rondeau (2014 for Catalina Vicens) from “Novas Cantigas”

See Catalina's full program and biography here:
https://www.facebook.com/events/937841513244228/

Hear all GIOA Podcasts here:
www.organacademy.se/the-gioa-podcast

Podcast: Jon Liinason

Göteborg International Organ Festival
The Organ as Mechanical Musical Marvel
October 11-20, 2019

A World of Tactile Passion and New Sounds
www.organacademy.se

GIOA Podcast - GIOF 2019 - #9 / Catalina Vicens

The GIOA Podcast #10 Louise Jansson

Reporting from Göteborg International Organ Festival
The Organ as a Mechanical Musical Marvel
October 11-20, 2019

Meet Louise Jansson and hear excerpts from the Harmonium Childrens Show "The Journey to Hawaii"::

Lördag 19 oktober 2019 kl 12.00 - 12.30
Hörsalen, nedre vån, Göteborgs stadsbibliotek

Orgelföreställningen "Resan till Hawaii"

Professor Clas Sönderberg skall just slutföra sin senaste uppfinning när hans bästa vän, björnen Bärtina Björn-Bengtsson dimper ner i hans laboratorium. Hon är full av förväntan inför sin födelsedag. Oj, att hon fyller år imorgon har han ju helt glömt bort! Han låtsas att han redan har fixat en present, men har han ingen aning om vad han ska ge henne...

Följ med Clas Sönderberg på ett sagoäventyr i jakten efter den perfekta presenten!

Alexandra Frid Giertz: sång och skådespel
Johanna Ekholm: sång och skådespel
Christoffer Jansson: sång och skådespel
Palle Karlsson: kontrabas
Louise Jansson: tramporgel

Göteborgs lilla orgelfestival
En värld av sinnlig passion och nya klanger - för alla!
https://www.organacademy.se/program-lilla-orgelfestivalen

See Louise's full program and biography here:
https://www.facebook.com/events/457424975118452/

Hear all GIOA Podcasts here:
www.organacademy.se/the-gioa-podcast

Podcast: Jon Liinason

Göteborg International Organ Festival
The Organ as Mechanical Musical Marvel
October 11-20, 2019

A World of Tactile Passion and New Sounds
www.organacademy.se

GIOA Podcast - GIOF 2019 - #10 / Louise Jansson

The GIOA Podcast #11 Nathan Laube

Reporting from Göteborg International Organ Festival
The Organ as a Mechanical Musical Marvel
October 11-20, 2019

Meet Nathan Laube and hear excerpts from his concert from HAGA CHURCH October 20 2019 16.00

ORGAN RECITAL AT THE MARCUSSEN ORGAN

Nathan Laube, organ

FELIX MENDELSSOHN BARTHOLDY (1809-1847)
Sonata III A-dur, Op. 65/3
Con moto maestoso
Andante tranquillo

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN (1770-1827)
Adagio assai from ”Fünf Stücke für Flötenuhr”, WoO 33 (arr. S. Zöhrer)

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART (1756-1791)
Adagio und Allegro f-moll, KV 594, ”für ein Orgelwerk in einer Uhr”

FRANZ LISZT (1811-1886)
Fantasie und Fuge über den Choral ”Ad nos, ad salutarem undam”, S. 259


See Nathan's full program and biography here:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1258563007649507/

Hear all GIOA Podcasts here:
www.organacademy.se/the-gioa-podcast

Photo: Joseph Routon
Podcast: Jon Liinason

Göteborg International Organ Festival
The Organ as Mechanical Musical Marvel
October 11-20, 2019

A World of Tactile Passion and New Sounds
www.organacademy.se

GIOA Podcast - GIOF 2019 - #11 / Nathan Laube

GIOA Podcast - Svenska 1700-talsorglar #1 / Axel Unnerbäck - Pehr Schiörlin, 1785 - Tryserum

Möt Axel Unnerbäck, orgelforskare och under många år ansvarig för orgelfrågorna inom Riksantikvarieämbetet, i samtal med Hans Davidsson, konstnärlig ledare, GIOA.

Orgeln byggdes samma år som Tryserums kyrka, 1785, av Pehr Schiörlin och anses som ett av hans bästa verk. Den är så gott som orörd, endast smärre justeringar har vidtagits.

Göteborgs internationella orgelakademi
En värld av sinnlig passion och nya klanger
http://www.organacademy.se

GIOA Podcast - På orgelturné med Axel Unnerbäck - Pehr Schiörlin - Tryserum

Sander Booij, organ builder and organist, and Jon Liinason, working with communication, new audiences and innovation at the Göteborg International Organ Academy, went organ hunting in the Netherlands in February 2020. In ten episodes they discover parts of the rich organ culture in the Netherlands.

Stay tuned for coming videos in the series "ORGAN HUNTING in the Netherlands" at: https://www.facebook.com/organacademy/

Playlist for ORGAN HUNTING in the Netherlands: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfbVWUpE409S3OKjr9c4mmG7y6gL8i3mU

Videos:
LUMIÈRE LIINASON
http://www.lumiereliinason.se

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ORGAN HUNTING in the Netherlands - Part 5 - Hervormde kerk, Zeerijp 1 143 visningar •23 mars 2020

The Göteborg International Organ Academy spotlights the remarkable organ landscape of the city of Göteborg with concerts and lectures by leading organists from around the world.

The Göteborg International Organ Festival and The Göteborg Youth Organ Festival are cross-cultural platforms for early and new music, with the goal of being a sought after entrance to a world of tactile passion and new sounds.

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