Concert information
At the invitation of the Berliner Philharmoniker
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Slovakian organist Zuzana Ferjenčíková dedicates her debut concert on the organ of the Berlin Philharmonie Berlin to her teacher Jean Guillou, who died in 2019. Guillou performed on the the Philharmonie’s organ several times himself. His speciality: his own arrangements of famous orchestral works, with which he created unexpected orchestral timbres on the organ. Zuzana Ferjenčíková plays some of Guillou's most impressive arrangements, including the delicate “Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy” from Tchaikovsky's ballet The Nutcracker and Mussorgsky's powerful cycle Pictures at an Exhibition.
Artists
Zuzana Ferjenčiková organ
Programme
In memoriam Jean Guillou (1930–2019)
Franz Liszt
Fantasy and Fugue on the Theme B-A-C-H (arrangement for organ by Jean Guillou)
Franz Liszt
Valse oubliée No. 1 (arrangement for organ by Jean Guillou)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Adagio and Rondo in C minor, K. 617 (arrangement for organ by Jean Guillou)
Piotr Tchaikovsky
The Nutcracker op. 71: Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy (arrangement for organ by Jean Guillou)
Sergei Prokofiev
Toccata for piano in D minor op. 11 (arrangement for organ by Jean Guillou)
Modest Mussorgsky
Pictures at an Exhibition (arrangement for organ by Jean Guillou)
Additional information
Duration ca. 1 hour
Main Auditorium
22 €
Series Z: Organ
Biography
Zuzana Ferjenčíková
Zuzana Ferjenčíková studied under French organ legend Jean Guillou, and went on to collaborate with him; she continues to perform his organ transcriptions today. As a child, Ferjenčíková received a traditional Russian piano education; she then studied organ in Bratislava and Vienna. She won several prizes at international competitions, including First Prize at the 2004 International Improvisation Competition in Haarlem (Netherlands). In high demand as a teacher, she regularly gives masterclasses, and serves on the juries of international organ competitions. She is the founder and president of the Franz Liszt Society in Vienna.
Since 2015, she has been living in Switzerland, pursuing an intensive schedule of concerts and recordings. In 2021, she was appointed professor of concert organ performance at Codarts University for Music in Rotterdam. As a performer, she is particularly drawn to the music of the Romantic era (especially Franz Liszt) as well as to 20th-century composers such as Jean Guillou and Marcel Dupré. As a composer, she writes concert works for organ, piano, and various instrumental ensembles, as well as transcribing piano and orchestral repertoire for the organ.
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