Musica Organi
Westminster Presbyterian Church, Knoxville, Tennessee
Friday, October 26, 2007, 8:00 p.m.
From Buxtehude to Bach
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Praeludium in e |
Nicolaus Bruhns (1665-1697) | |
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"Vater unser in Himmelreich" |
Georg Böhm (1661-1733) | |
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Toccata in d, BuxWV 155 |
Dieterich Buxtehude (1637-1707) | |
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Praeludium in g, BuxWV 149 |
Dieterich Buxtehude | |
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Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ, BWV 639 |
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) | |
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Wer nur den lieben Gott lässt walten, BWV 642 |
J.S. Bach | |
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O Lamm Gottes, unschuldig, BWV 618 |
J.S. Bach | |
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In dir ist Freude, BWV 615 |
J.S. Bach | |
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Intermission |
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Improvisations |
Sietze de Vries (b. 1973) | |
Sietze de Vries received his first organ lessons from Jaap Niewenhuijse at the music school in Gouda. At the municipal conservatory in Groningen he studied with Johan Beeftink, Jan Jongepier (improvisation), and Wim van Beek. In 1994 he was awarded the pedagogy diploma summa cum laude as the last pupil of Wim van Beek in this subject. He holds the performance diploma from the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, where Jos van der Kooy was his teacher, and he also studied improvisation and church music there.
Sietze de Vries is very active as a concert organist in the Netherlands and abroad, with concert tours and master classes that have taken him to Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Denmark, England, and the United States. He has won fifteen different prizes in various national organ competitions, in both repertoire and improvisation. The high point of these activities was winning the international improvisation competition in Haarlem in 2002, where he had been a finalist in both 1998 and 2000.
Sietze de Vries has recorded several CDs of repertoire from all periods and improvisations in various styles. He is also increasingly active as a teacher of improvisation and as a composer.