Colorado College Distinguished Organist Series

and Department of Music

present

Frantisek Vanicek Organist

Tuesday, November 19, 2013 at 7:30 pm

Shove Memorial Chapel

Frantisek Vanicek (b. 1969), a native of the Czech Republic, graduated from the Conservatoire in Pardubice, where he studied with Josef Rafaja, as well as Prague’s Academy of Arts, where he was a student of Jan Hora. He further developed his skills at the Utrecht School of the Arts in the Netherlands. Vanicek has taken part in many competitions and was the second place winner at the Albert Schweitzer International

Organ Competition in Deventer, Holland in 1991. In the same year, he was awarded the prestigious Premier prix from the Czech Musical Fund for his representation abroad. Since 1989, he has given hundreds of full-length solo organ concerts all over the world, including Japan, Australia, Singapore, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Germany, France, Spain, Belgium, The Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, and the United States. Both audiences and critics alike are known to appreciate highly his “famous and admirable style of play” (De orgelvriend, 1991) and “fascinating organ playing” (Frankfurter Neue Presse, 1999). He has received numerous accolades, including being named an “eminent artist” (Corriere di Torino, 1994) and a musician who performs “Organmusik in Perfektion” (Passauer Neue Presse, 2009). Since 1995, Vanicek has taught the art of organ at the University of Hradec Králové.

 

Organ Music from Europe

d Prelude in E minor ............................................................................. N. Bruhns

(1665-1697)

Toccata in A minor ....................................................................... J.J. Froberger (1615-1667)

Toccata in C major (BuxWV 137) ................................................ D. Buxtehude

(1637-1707) Wenn wir in höchsten Nöten sein (BWV 641) Prelude and Fugue in G major (BWV 541) ......................................... J.S. Bach

(1685-1750) Vigilie ................................................................................................ B. Martinu

(1890-1959) Choralpartita on “Jesu, all mein Leben bist Du” .................................. P. Eben

(1929-2007) Nun danket alle Gott (Op. 65, No. 59) .......................................... S. Karg-Elert

(1877-1933) Sonata .................................................................................................... J. Strejc

(b. 1932) 1. Prelude 2. Aria 3. Toccata rumba

You are invited to a reception in the Pilgrim Chapel (to the right of the organ)

following the performance.