Friday 5 May 2017 at 1:10 pm
Johann Vexo
The Scots’ Church
About the performer…
Johann Vexo was born in 1978 in the northeastern French city of Nancy. At the age of 25, he was appointed Choir Organist of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris. Soon thereafter he was also appointed Organist of the Cavaillé-Coll organ of the Cathedral in Nancy, Professor of Organ at the Angers Conservatory, and the European Music Summer Academy in Nancy. Johann has performed extensively throughout Europe, the United States, Canada and Russia. He has appeared as a featured artist in numerous international music festivals and organ series in cities such as Dallas, New York, Quebec, Moscow, Antwerp, Düsseldorf, Porto, Riga and Vienna. His performances have also included notable venues such as the Basilica of the National Shrine in Washington DC, the Co-Cathedral of the Sacred Heart in Houston, the Wanamaker Grand Court in Philadelphia, the Notre Dame Basilica in Montreal and the Yekaterinburg Philharmonic Hall. Johann Vexo is represented by Phillip Truckenbrod Concert Artists, LLC.
ANZCO gratefully acknowledges the generous support of The Scots’ Church Friday 5 May 2017 at 1:10 pm
Johann Vexo
The Scots’ Church
PROGRAM
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) Prelude and Fugue in D Major (BWV 532)
César Franck (1822-1890) Choral No. 2 in B minor
Charles-Marie Widor (1844-1937) Finale from Symphonie No. 6, Op. 42 No. 2
About the instrument… Opened in 2000, the current organ in The Scots’ Church was built by Rieger Orgelbau of Schwarzach, Austria and designed in association with Douglas Lawrence OAM, the Organist and Director of Music of The Scots’ Church. The instrument incorporates the magnificent cedar casework from the original organ of 1874, designed by the acclaimed Melbourne architectural firm Reed & Barnes, with new polished tin façade pipework. The new gallery casework, housing the Gallery division, was brilliantly designed in complementary Victorian-gothic style. The organ is built on a grand scale, with the Pedal windchests placed at the rear and sides of the main instrument, the enclosed Positive division behind the arcades at the base of the case, the Great centrally placed behind the façade pipework, and the Swell to the rear. The main console is terraced and detached from the instrument. The organ is one of the finest instruments in Australasia, on account of its excellence of construction and its outstanding tonal quality.
The next concert in the 2017 MUSOC is on Friday 12 May at 1:10 pm in the Chapel of Trinity College, University of Melbourne with Gillian McNaughton.
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