PAĽA: JANÁČEK, FOERSTER, WIEDERMANN

The Year of Czech Music provides an ideal opportunity to present a purely Czech-Moravian program of organ music of the 19th and 20th centuries. Rieger-Kloss large instrument op. 3288 will be played by Marek Paľa, whom our audience knows well after last year's accompaniment of Kantiléna at the world premiere of the Easter concert Mysterium paschale. Several works will be heard again, at least in the Brno premiere.
JOSEF BOHUSLAV FOERSTER
Impromptu Op. 135
JOSEF LEOPOLD THE BELL RINGER
I. sonata op. 3
1. Pathetic
2. Chorale
3. Fugue. Moderately
BEDŘICH ANTONÍN WIEDERMANN
Sadness
LEOŠ JANAČEK
Choral fantasy
BEDŘICH ANTONÍN WIEDERMANN
Elegy
JOSEF BOHUSLAV FOERSTER
Fantasy Op. 14
JOSEF KLICKA
Fantasy based on the symphonic poem "Vyšehrad" by B. Smetana op. 33

Marek Paľa organ
Marek Paľa (1979) is a Slovak organist, pianist and conductor. He graduated from the Ján Levoslav Bellu Conservatory in Banská Bystrica, where he studied playing the organ and conducting. In 1999, he joined the Janáček Academy of Performing Arts in Brno, where he continued to study the organ under the guidance of Professor Kamila Klugarová. From 1998 he attended the Master Organ Course in Zurich under the direction of Jean Guilla. He also participated in a number of competitions, e.g. he won the 2nd prize at the Anglo-Czechoslovak Trust 2001 competition in England in chamber music. He regularly collaborates with the Brno Philharmonic or the Kantiléna children's choir. He performs concerts in a number of European countries (Slovak Republic, Czech Republic, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, Great Britain). He works as an assistant professor at the singing department of HF JAMU.

THE CONCERT IS TAKING PLACE IN THE BASILICA IN OLD BRNO