Familienkirche Linz | October 17 th 2014
Georg Friedrich HÄNDEL Haec est Regina virginum (1685 – 1759)
Carl Philipp Emanuel BACH Sonata in F major Wq 70/3 (H 84): (1714 – 1788) Allegro Largo Allegretto
Lorenzo PEROSI Alma Redemptoris Mater (1897) (1872 – 1956)
Antonio SACCHINI Ave Regina Coelorum (1730 – 1786)
Franjo DUGAN Regina Coeli (1895) (1874 – 1948)
Nicolas de GRIGNY Récit de tierce en taille (Gloria) (1672 – 1703)
Maurice RAVEL Deux mèlodies hébraïques (1914): (1875 – 1937) Kaddisch. Lent. L’énigme éternelle. Tranquillo.
Nicolas de GRIGNY Cromorne en taille deux parties (Kyrie)
Erik SATIE From Messe des Pauvres (1893-95): (1866 – 1925) Prière des Orgues Prière pour le salut de mon âme
Sonneries de la Rose + Croix (1892)
Jean ROGER -DUCASSE Ave, Regina Coelorum (1911) (1873 – 1954)
Arvo PÄRT Vater unser (2005-2011) (1935)
Margarita Swarczewskaja | mezzo-soprano Marju Riisikamp | organ
Margarita Swarczewskaja , mezzo-soprano, was born in Pärnu (Estonia). In 2002 she graduated in choral conducting at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre in Tallinn. From 2000 to 2006 he joined the vocal ensemble of sacred music Orthodox Singers (conducted by Valery Petrov) and participated in more than 400 concerts and stage performances in European countries, USA, Russia and the Middle East. In 2006 he moved to Italy to study singing with Rita Susovsky at the Music Conservatory “Giuseppe Tartini” in Trieste. In 2012 she received her II-Level Diplom in Singing with the highest grades. He attended master classes with Yulianna Lapynsh-Bawarska, Martine Surais Deschamps, Linda Hirst, Elisa Belmonte, Anne Marie Dur, Loretta Clini, baroque singing with Lia Serafini and Romina Basso and chamber music with Sampsa Konttinen, Teresa Leopold and Katariina Liimatainen. From 2008 she performed as a soloist with various groups symphonic- choral in Italy, Germany, Slovenia and Estonia and in chamber music duo with pianist Nicola Colocci. In the 2009-2010 opera season was soloist at the Theater "Giuseppe Verdi" in Trieste in side roles (particularly in Wagner's Tannhäuser ) under the direction of Niksa Bareza. In 2012 she performed in the Lorenzo Signorini's opera L'attesa at the Conservatory of Trieste and in Sacile. In the same year he made his debut in the role of Annius in La Clemenza di Tito by Mozart at the Summer Air - Open Air Theatre Festival Music Festival in Pärnu getting acclaim from critics and audiences. He directs the youth choir Slavija in Udine (since 2007), the chorus of voices in the elementary school of San Leonardo in Udine (2013) and the choir of Our Lady of the Sea Parish in Trieste.
Marju Riisikamp was trained as a classical pianist and later studied Organ with Hugo Lepnurm and Rolf Uusväli in Estonia. She then continued perfecting her skills, attending master classes mainly in Italy, Switzerland and The Netherlands with Ketil Haugsand, Knud Johannesen, Edward Parmentier, Pieter van Dijk and Luigi Ferdinando Tagliavini. Since 1991 Marju Riisikamp has been studying with the renowned performer Christopher Stembridge, thanks to whom she has had the opportunity to enter the word of historical performance and practice in organ, harpsichord and clavichord playing as well as of outstanding Italian Renaissance organs. Marju Riisikamp received her MA in Harpsichord performance in 2000. From October 2009 he attended for a year the Musikhochschule in Trossingen (Germany). She performed as a soloist, and with several early music group, in Estonia, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Germany, France, Russia, Latvia and Italy. Marju Riisikamp actually works as teacher of historical performance practice in the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre. She has recorded two CDs: the first ( Espressione ) with music by Antonio Valente, Giovanni de Macque, Ascanio Mayone and Girolamo Frescobaldi for the Estonian National Radio; the second (Renaissance Organ Music from England and Italy ) with music by Orlando Gibbons, William Byrd, Thomas Tomkins, Andrea Gabrieli and Claudio Merulo.