Composer

This will be a dazzling performance on our very own queen of instruments! Our guest is the Spaniard Juan de la Rubia, organist at the famous Sagrada Família cathedral in Barcelona. He begins his multifaceted program with the magnificent overture to Handel's 1743 psychological drama "Samson." A superb example of French Renaissance music is Eustache du Caurroy's 1610 Fantasia on the then-popular and enchanting song "Une jeune fillette." Profound emotion stands alongside explosive outbursts in Bach's legendary Chaconne in D minor. Charles Tournemire never wrote down his choral improvisations, such as the one on the Easter sequence "Victimae Paschali Laudes"—they survive only because he recorded them as early as 1930. Jehan Alain, who died young in World War II, wrote impressive variations on a folk song by the 16th-century master Clément Janequin.

Organ concert: Juan de la Rubia

Bamberger Symphoniker

The multiple-award-winning organist Daniel Hyde, who succeeded the late Stephen Cleobury as music director of King’s College, Cambridge, presents an inspiringly wide range of music this this performance.

Daniel Hyde: Bach, Mozart & Debussy

Southbank Centre

There is no better way to start Advent Sunday than with a varied, atmospheric organ concert: Christian Schmitt, renowned concert organist with a professorship at the Rotterdam Conservatory, invites you to a matinee with a program that presents the "queen of instruments" from the most beautiful romanticism to a piece exclusively for the pedals (i.e. played with the feet!).

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Christian Schmitt, organ

Elbphilharmonie Hamburg

Future Chief Conductor Marie Jacquot arrives in Cologne with a room-filling classic. The Frenchwoman will take over as the WDR Symphony Orchestra's conductor in the summer of 2026. She's already stoking anticipation with Anton Bruckner's Seventh. The symphony electrifies with its sky-high verve. Bruckner was himself a church musician and plays the orchestra's instruments like the stops of an organ. Thus, the combination with works for the "Queen of Instruments" is a natural fit. Parisian organist Thomas Ospital will enrich the program with music by Handel and Jehan Alain.

Marie Jacquot - Bruckner's Seventh

Museum Ludwig

A tragic opera for soprano and orchestra in one act, lasting around forty minutes, Poulenc's La voix humaine was written in 1958 to a text by Jean Cocteau. This long and moving telephone monologue by a woman abandoned by her lover is performed by the Belgian soprano Anne-Catherine Gillet and accompanied on the organ (starting from Poulenc's piano version) by Yoann Tardivel, in a sober staging, conceived for this concert. The prelude to Pelléas et Mélisande by Fauré and the Three Dances for organ by Jehan Alain, subtitled Joys, Mournings, Struggles , provide an ideal introduction.

The human voice

Philharmonic Hall of Liege

Both create music through the flow of air, and yet they could hardly be more different: the powerful, large organ and the intimate, modest flute. In this concert, Thomas Ospital, organist of St Eustache Church in Paris, and Emmanuel Pahud, principal flautist of the Berliner Philharmoniker, demonstrate how well the two instruments go together – with dreamy, often highly virtuosic works by Jehan Alain, Camille Saint-Saëns and Frank Martin. The full splendour of the organ’s sound comes into its own in the transcription of Saint-Saëns’ Danse macabre as well as  in Liszt's Consolation and his variations on Johann Sebastian Bach’s “Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen”.

Organ matinee Thomas Ospital and Emmanuel Pahud

Berliner Philharmonie

Rice Chorale is one of the oldest ensembles on campus, comprised of voice and music majors and other talented singers from Rice University and the greater Houston community. 

Rice Chorale

Alice Pratt Brown Hall

Join Shepherd School organ students of Ken Cowan for a spooky concert of Halloween favorites!

Halloween Concert

Study Concert with Organ Students in Jesuskirken

Jesus Church

Jack Mitchener has established himself as one of America’s leading concert organists bringing <em>“music to life with supple rhythmic control, clear phrasing, energy, and sensitivity”</em> (The American Organist). He enjoys a thriving international performance career that includes appearances in such notable venues as St. Thomas Church in New York City, the Cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris, the Church of St. Augustine in Vienna, Jacobikirche in Lübeck, Germany, and the Hong Kong Cultural Centre.

Jack Mitchener (organ)

First Congregational Church

Alex performs a programme that contrasts the spiritual depth of Bach’s chorales with the vivid imagination of Jehan Alain, culminating in Duruflé’s poignant tribute to Alain’s life and music.

Franck’s expansive Choral No. 1 provides the centrepiece, weaving a rich tapestry of colour, contemplation, and the brilliance of French organ writing.

Composer

Jehan Alain

Events

Upcoming events

Nov 20, 2024 - Apr 13, 2026

Rice Chorale · The Shepherd School of Music at Rice University

Jun 25, 2026

Alex Robson, Organ ·

Past events

Mar 8, 2026

Organ concert: Juan de la Rubia · Bamberger Symphoniker

Jan 27, 2026

Daniel Hyde: Bach, Mozart & Debussy · Southbank Centre

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