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Event
- Title:
- French organ & piano music - Elmo Cosentini (Vienna)
- When:
- 05 Oct 2008 6:30 pm
- Where:
- Wellington Cathedral of St Paul - Wellington
- Category:
- Wellington
Description
Here, Elmo Cosentini plays mainly French organ and piano music. The programme includes music by Boëly, Saint-Saëns, Chopin and Pierné. Programme details here.
Elmo Cosentini, was born in Vienna where he studied piano, organ (with Peter Planyavsky) and composition as well as orchestral conducting. During his recital career, both as pianist and organist, he has performed in many countries of Europe, the USA, South Africa, China and Australia. He has given premieres of contemporary music, made CD recordings and also made live broadcasts for different European tv and radio stations. He founded his own "Wiener Haydn Orchester" and after having been musical assistant at the State Opera in Prague he was employed as an opera conductor at the "Stadttheater Klagenfurt", an opera house in Austria, for three years.
Elmo Cosentini has held master classes and workshops at Universities such as the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts and at the Summer Academy in Venice, lectures at Scot's Church in Melbourne and at conventions such as the National Convention of the American Guild of Organists 2004 in Los Angeles.
Currently he is teaching at the "University for Music and Performing Arts in Vienna" where he earned a doctor's degree for his dissertation on Rachmaninoff's piano music.
Venue
- Venue:
- Wellington Cathedral of St Paul
- Street:
- Molesworth St
- City:
- Wellington
- Country:
-
Description
Wellington's Anglican Cathedral has two service organs. The main organ is a large four manual and pedal instrument and the Lady Chapel is equipped with a small two-manual extension organ by J. W. Walker.The original organ was built by the English firm of T. C. Lewis and Company, and installed in Old St. Paul's in 1877. It was a fine example of that famous builder's work, and was a two-manual tracker blown by a water engine. The instrument was rebuilt and enlarged in the 1930s by Lawton and Osborne of Auckland. A new choir organ was added, and the tracker action was replaced by exhaust pneumatic.
In 1964 the organ was moved to the new Cathedral by George Croft and Son, Auckland where it served the cathedral music until 1976 when Crofts were entrusted with the work of rebuilding and enlarging the instrument to cathedral proportions. Every effort was made to retain the original "Lewis" sound and most of the original pipework was incorporated into the new organ. All new pipework was imported from England with the exception of the Pedal Bombarde unit, the Trompette en Chamade and the Great reeds which came from Germany. The organ now contains a total of 3,531 pipes.
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