Texter och CV om årets gästande organister.
Wayne Marshall
British conductor, organist and pianist, Wayne Marshall, is world-renowned for his musicianship and versatility on the podium and at the keyboard. He served as Chief Conductor of WDR Funkhaus Orchestra, Cologne, from 2014-2020.
He was Principal Guest Conductor of Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi from 2007-2013.
He is a celebrated interpreter of the music of George Gershwin, Leonard Bernstein and other 20th century American composers.
Wayne Marshall’s recent conducting highlights include his critically-acclaimed debut with the Berliner Philharmoniker at the Waldbuhne in 2021. He also made his debut with the Munich Philharmonic, Seattle Symphony and Chicago Symphony.
In the Summer of 2021, Wayne Marshall made his debut at the Edinburgh International Festival featuring the music of Rodgers and Hammerstein with concerts featuring Danielle de Niese and, in 2022, as conductor with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra.
His recent debut appearance at the Opera de Lyon was highly praised for the musical performances of Leonard Bernstein’s “Candide.”
Plans for the 23/24 season include his conducting debut with the Vancouver Symphony, Nashville Symphony, Baltimore Symphony and the Orchestra National de Lyon.
In 2025 he will make his conducting debut in Japan with the Nagoya and Hiroshima Symphony Orchestras.
As organ recitalist, he has an exceptionally varied repertoire and performs worldwide. In the last couple of years, he has gained a big following on social media. He gave a spectacular online recital at the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg in 2021. He also made his debut as organist at the Berlin Philharmonie in 2022 and returns to the Walt Disney Hall in Los Angeles in 2024.
He has performed in most of the prestigious Cathedrals and Concert Halls worldwide.
During the 23/24 season, he will be performing at the concert hall in Dortmund, Essen Philharmonie, Bozar in Brussels and will be performing for the 150th anniversary celebrations of the Henry Willis organ at the Royal Albert Hall in London.
Wayne was honoured with an OBE (Order of the British Empire) from Her Majesty The Queen’s New Year’s Honours list in 2021. In 2004 he received an Honorary Doctorate from Bournemouth University and became a Fellow of the Royal College of Music in 2010. In 2016 Wayne was awarded the prestigious Golden Jubilee Award, presented by the Barbados Government for his services to music. Wayne was proud to be an Ambassador of the London Music Fund from 2018 until 2021.
Stefan Therstam
Stefan Therstam studerade vid Kungliga Musikhögskolan i Stockholm för Gotthard Arnér och Rune Engsö i orgel, samt Anders Bondeman i improvisation. Kyrkomusikerlinjen följdes av solistlinjen i orgel och avslutades med diplom. Genom Musikaliska Akademiens stipendium fullföljdes studierna utomlands, huvudsakligen för Bernard Bartelink i Holland och André Isoir i Paris.
1988 vann han den högt ansedda internationella orgelimprovisationstävlingen i Haarlem, Holland.
Stefan Therstam är professor och ämnesansvarig i orgel vid Kungliga Musikhögskolan och undervisar där sedan 1985med improvisation som specialitet. Åren 2006 – 2015 var han prefekt vid Kungl. Musikhögskolans institution för klassisk musik.
Sedan 1999 är han organist i Engelbrektskyrkan i Stockholm.
Stefan Therstam konserterar regelbundet inom och utom landet. Hans verksamhet inkluderar även internationella juryuppdrag och föreläsningar samt medverkan på inspelningar, i radio och TV.
Hanne Kuhlmann
Hanne Kuhlmann was born in 1967 and studied in Copenhagen, Paris and London. She made her debut recital in 1992.
Since then she has won two International Organ Competitions (Lathi 1993 and Odense 1996) and she has played recitals all over Denmark and on many of the important European organs.
She is now the Cathedral Organist of Copenhagen Cathedral. She appears on Danish radio and television in a daily live broadcast morning service.
In 2022-23 Hanne Kuhlmann is the artistic director of the International Organ Festival in Bodø, Norway.
Elke Völker
Elke Voelker – The audience has credited her with Standing Ovations and Bravos at her debut at the prestigious Schleswig-Holstein-Musikfestival. German newspaper „Die Zeit“ testifies: „Elke Voelker plays with such an extemporizing directness and burning, highly virtuos energy that you feel imposed to go down on your knees before her (the organ).“ Her Karg-Elert recordings are described as „Highly recommended“ by the English magazin „The Organ“…
Ms. Voelker has been a prizewinner in several international organ competitions. Since then her international success has – last but not least – established her excellent reputation as one of the demanded organists of our generation, which led to an extensive worldwide concert and teaching career.
As recording artist she has published 11 CDs and is featured exclusively by the German Organ Music Label AEOLUS. Her specialization in the organ works of Sigfrid Karg-Elert has resulted in the world premiere recording of his complete organ works. In this ongoing project, eight CDs are available for sale. The project earns high praise from critics and public alike.
Ms. Völker has worked over 15 years as Cathedral Music Associate at the UNESCO Heritage St. Marys Imperial Cathedral of Speyer, 2009 she was nomminated interims Music Director.
She has received a broad musical education in Germany, France, and in the US. She studied organ, piano, harpsichord, conducting and church music. Besides this, she has received a doctor degree in Musicology and Roman/German Studies at the University of Heidelberg. Journalistic activity has been added to various international musicological publications.
Charlotte Hedberg, Björn Gäfvert & Anna Dahlqvist
Björn Gäfvert studerade orgel och cembalospel vid Kungliga musikhögskolan i Stockholm.
Det främsta lärosätet har varit inspirerande samarbeten med många framstående musiker, sångare och dirigenter. Samarbetspartners finns det gott om: Drottningholms barockensemble (där Björn är ständig tangentspelare sedan 1989), Sveriges Radios symfoniorkester, Radiokören, Kungliga filharmoniska orkestern, Musica Vitae och Svenska Kammarorkestern, för att nämna några. Sedan hösten 2013 är Björn huvudansvarig organist i Immanuelskyrkan, Stockholm. Han ingår också i en trio med sopranen Barbara Hendricks. Han har konserterat i, i stort sett, hela världen, samt finns representerad på ett sjuttiotal CD-inspelningar.
Anna Dahlqvist är skådespelare och clown och är utbildad på “École International de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq” i Paris.
Hon har arbetat med barn- och ungdomsteater i 20 år med grupper som bl.a. Teater Barbara, Circonova och senast med Dotterbolaget.
Anna arbetar som sjukhusclown sedan 2015 i Stockholm på bl.a. Karolinska Universitetssjukhuset i Solna och Huddinge, med gruppen Clownmedicin, och på Akademiska Sjukhuset i Uppsala med gruppen Clownjouren. Där kan man träffa på hennes clown Hjördis som genom åren träffat och glatt många barn och vuxna. Hjördis är nyfiken och glad men blandar oftast ihop saker och ting så att det blir lite annorlunda.
Under spelåret 2021/2022 var hon även med i föreställningen “Hunden” som turnerar runt om i Sverige i produktion av Dotterbolaget. Anna gör rollen som hunden.
Charlotte Hedberg är konstnär och är utbildad vid
Gerlesborgsskolan i Bohuslän och i Fri konst vid Konstfack. Hon har medverkat i många konstutställningar i hela Sverige och studerar nu Master i teologi vid Enskilda högskolan i
Stockholm.
Sarah Kim
Born in Germany, Sarah Kim is an Australian organist of Korean origin, who is now based in Paris.
She began her musical studies (piano and violin) at an early age in Cologne and had her first organ lessons with Miriam Gaydon at the age of eleven in Sydney. After finishing high school, she studied organ with Philip Swanton at the Sydney Conservatorium Music, where she graduated from a Bachelor of Music Performance course with First Class Honours and the Sydney University Medal. During her student days at the Conservatorium, Sarah held several organ scholar positions at the University of Sydney, St Paul’s College and St James’ Anglican Church. She performed with numerous ensembles including the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, the Australian Youth Orchestra and the Sydney Chamber Choir. As a soloist she performed in major concert venues including the Sydney, Perth and Melbourne Town Halls and the Sydney Opera House.
On completion of her studies, Sarah was awarded a University of Sydney overseas travelling scholarship and became the first Australian organist ever to be accepted into the ‘Cycle de Perfectionnement’ and Master course at the Paris Conservatoire, where she studied with Oliver Latry and Michel Bouvard.
She subsequently pursued further studies with Wolfgang Zerer and Lorenzo Ghielmi at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, where she gained a specialised Masters degree in early music. .
Prize-winner of the Sydney, Newcastle and Paris International Organ Competitions, Sarah has given masterclasses at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and the Oundle International Summer Academy in the UK.
She has performed in prestigious venues, including Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, Westminster Abbey, the Royal Chapel in Versailles, the Musikverein in Vienna and in the Berlin Philharmonie. Sarah has featured as soloist with the Swedish Baroque Orchestra, the Oxford Band of Instruments and the Bordeaux Orchestra. She plays regularly with the Parisian ensemble ‘le Balcon’, the l’Orchestre National de France, and is currently organist at the Oratoire du Louvre in Paris.
Simone Vebber
Simone Vebber was born in Trento in 1983. He studied Ancient Organ with L. Ghielmi at the Accademia Internazionale di Musica in Milan. He graduated in Organ and Piano (cum laude) at the Conservatory F. A. Bonporti in Trento (Italy). Vebber received the Concert Diploma at the Schola Cantorum in Paris, studying with J. P. Imbert and he had the First Prize in Organ Improvisation in the class of P. Pincemaille at the CNR of Saint-Maur (Paris). He participated in the interpretation masterclasses with L. Lohmann, J. C. Zehnder, Bine Bryndorf, Brett Leighton and P. D. Peretti. He won numerous prizes at the prestigious European competitions and festivals: 1st Prize in Alessandria – Italy, 1st Prize in Pistoia – Italy, 1st Grand Prize and Public Prize at the J. S. Bach Organ Competition in Saint Pierre lès Nemour – France (2005), 1st Prize at the J. J. Fux international organ competition in Graz – Austria (2010), and the Peter Hurford Bach Prize at the Competition of The St Albans International Organ Festival (2011). He has recorded for Suonare Records, Radio Vaticana, Diapason Edition, Mascioni, ORF and Discantica. He played concerts in many important organ venues and organ festivals in Vienna, Riga, Paris, Milan, Rome, Warsaw, Rio de Janeiro, etc. Vebber played as a soloist with important orchestras like the Mozart Orchestra conducted by Claudio Abbado. On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the death of French composer and organist Camille Saint-Saëns, Vebber and the Da Vinci Publishing started the project dedicated to the complete exploration of the work by the French composer who is often too relegated to the margins of a late romanticism, and first CD has been published this year. Simone Vebber is Organ Professor at the Conservatory G.Donizetti in Bergamo and Improvisation Professor at the Academy of Old Music C. Abbado in Milan.
Robert Quinney
Robert Quinney was born in Nottingham, UK, and began his musical life as a chorister, initially in Dundee Cathedral Choir. He began playing the organ at the age of ten, and was subsequently Organ Scholar at King’s College, Cambridge, where he completed his undergraduate and graduate studies. A performing career took him to London, working first at Westminster Cathedral and for nine years as Sub-Organist at Westminster Abbey, during which time he performed at several national and international events. After a short period as director of music at Peterborough Cathedral he moved to Oxford in 2014. He directs the world-famous Choir of New College, Oxford, where he is also a Tutorial Fellow in Music. In the faculty of music he gives lectures for the Techniques of Composition and Choral Performance papers, and has taught history topic on the keyboard music of J. S. Bach. Alongside his work at Oxford he maintains a busy schedule as a solo organist, and makes frequent appearances as a guest conductor, notably with the BBC Singers. He is also Director of the Edington Festival of Music within the Liturgy.
Tom och Jonathan Scott
Scott Brothers Duo står för finalkonserten i Konserthuset. De engelska bröderna Jonathan och Tom Scott framträder internationellt både med orgel och piano i olika kombinationer.
Vi hör duon i flera mycket välkända verk i egna arrangemang, samt även originalmusik av Tom Scott. Vid sidan av piano- och orgelspelet är Tom Scott nämligen verksam som tonsättare, konstnär och animatör, vilket har resulterat i en rad projekt som kombinerar musik med visuella upplevelser. Brodern Jonathan Scott ger även solokonserter som pianist och organist.
Tom read Music on the joint course at The University of Manchester, gained the Sir Thomas Beecham Medal for Excellence in his degree, and achieved a distinction in his Masters degree.
He made his concerto debut with the Hallé Orchestra, aged 17, with Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No.1 at The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester. Tom is also a keen artist and animator and creates animations to accompany their live classical concerts. His animations are regularly performed alongside orchestras and ensembles world-wide. As a composer, Tom’s work ranges from instrumental to acousmatic compositions and audio/visual works, and his music has been performed across Europe and USA. He completed his PhD in electroacoustic composition at The University Of Manchester (supported by AHRC funding) and currently lectures in electroacoustic composition at the RNCM.
Jonathan continued his studies in USA and Holland, won the coveted Worshipful Company of Musicians WT Best Scholarship and gold medal, and is a Freeman of The City of London.
Jonathan has been a member of the keyboard staff at RNCM since 2001 and is Associate Artist of The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester where he gives a series of popular lunchtime organ recitals which attract audiences approaching 1,000. Jonathan’s recent performances have included numerous solo recitals as pianist and organist as well as appearances at the BBC proms, broadcasts on BBC Radio 2, 3 and ClassicFM, and a live recording of Copland’s Organ Symphony with BBC Philharmonic and John Wilson for Chandos Records.
In 2017 Jonathan gave the world premiere of the new organ concerto ‘6000 Pipes!’ by Sir Karl Jenkins with Hull Philharmonic Orchestra and he performed this work throughout 2019 including a special gala performance at The Royal Albert Hall, London.