Organist Hans U. Hielscher will perform on the Estey pipe organ at First Baptist Church in Brattleboro on Sunday, October 13, 2013 at 7:00 pm. The concert is a collaboration between the Estey Organ Museum and the Brattleboro Historical Society and will include works by Groom, Rawsthorne, Guilmant, Pasini, Ketèlbey, Goemanne and von Suppé.
Mr. Hielscher currently serves as Director of Music at the Wiesbaden Marktkirche in Germany and was Municipal Organist at the Wiesbaden Kurhaus Concert Hall from 1979 to 2004. Since 1962, he has presented more than 2,800 organ recitals throughout the world in such venues as Paris, Milano, London, Liverpool, Ely, Salisbury, Norwich, Wells, Canterbury, Prague, Budapest, Bern, Zürich, Oslo, and Stockholm.
He is no stranger to the United States, having taught for a number of years as a guest professor and lecturer/recitalist at Redlands University in California. He is the author of several books, including Alexandre Guilmant – Life and Work and Famous Organs in the U.S.A., has made 22 CD recordings on various labels performing mainly 19th-century organ music, and has appeared on numerous radio and TV programs in Germany, the U.S., Australia, and New Zealand. In 1985, he was honored by the French government for his worldwide engagement in French organ music and was nominated “Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.”
Born in Detmold, Germany, Mr. Hielscher completed a State Degree A at the State Academy of Music at Detmold in organ, piano, harpsichord, conducting and composition, and also attended the Church Music School of Westfalia in Herford.
Music lovers are invited to the performance as well as a reception preceding the concert at 6:00 pm. A $15 donation to support the museum will be accepted at the door.
First Baptist Church is located at 190 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT.
For more information on the Estey Organ Museum, please visit www.esteyorganmuseum.org . For more information about the Brattleboro Historical Society, please visit www.brattleborohistoricalsociety.org
This weekend
A reminder that this concert is this weekend. Rare to get such an accomplished organist in town, so go see the performance if you can make time.
Karen was playing some of his performances yesterday on WVEW.