October 26-30 the II International Competition concert of organists to take place in Kazan

The organ in  Kazan   has been  sounding   for  more than a hundred years. The first concerts were held back in 1886 at  the Lutheran Church. In the early twentieth century, the  Czech instrument was lost, and only in 1972 in Kazan Conservatory thanks to the efforts of the first rector Nazib Zhiganov a large concert organ «Rieger-Kloss»  appeared. In the same year  class of organ  opened.

Soon another organ  decorated chamber hall of the Conservatory, and in 1997 at the State Big Concert Hall after S. Saidash  the  largest organ of the company «Flentrop» was  installed.

In 1998, the Chair of  the organ and harpsichord  opened,  headed by the current rector of the Kazan Conservatory, People's Artist of Russia, Professor Rubin Abdullin. Largely,  due to his efforts, Kazan became    has become one of the centers of organ art in Russia.

Each month  concerts of organ music within the project  "Music  of  cathedrals of the world"   are held, and   in a few days in our city  the best performers in Europe  get  together.

October 26-30,   the  II International Competition concert of  organists takes place The first such competition was held in Kazan in 2008.

The jury includes   well-known musicians,  concert organists teaching in higher music education institutions in Russia, France, Austria, Germany:  Rubin   Abdullin , professor of the Higher School of Music from  Lyubeck Sergei Cherepanov, pedagogue   from   Paris Conservatory Thierry Escaich  , Professor of St. Petersburg State University Alexei Panov, organist form  St. Florian Monastery in Linz, Vienna University of Music pedagogue   Matthias Giesen.

Preliminary audition  passed  through videos submitted by the participants of the competition. Of the twelve organists in the final competition to be  attended by six musicians from Kazan, St. Petersburg, Yoshkar-Ola, Nizhny Tagil and Lyubeck. Concerts-finals will take place at  the State Big Concert Hall after S.Saydash   October 27 from 18:30 and  October 28 October at 15:00. To get to  the auditions  is possible for anyone.

October 28, a  solo organ program  is  presented by one of the jury members Thierry Escaich. Also,  as part of the contest,   master classes    by Matthias Gizena  and  Sergei Cherepanov   will be held.

The awards ceremony and gala concert of laureates and winners will take place on October 30 at the    S. Saidash  SGCH.