PROGRAM
Das Bunte Sammelband aus Leutschau / Slowakei (1660–70), Jan Valach (Orgelbearbeitung und Auswahl)
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750) — Concerto a mol (podľa Vivaldiho), BWV 593
Felix Mendelssohn (1809–47) — Sonate Nr. 2, s minor, op. 65
Petr Eben (1929–2007) — Die süßen Ketten der Liebe aus „Das Labyrinth der Welt und das Paradies des Herzens”
Stanislav Šurin (b. 1971) — A Modale Prelude; Nostalgia for Alenka; Fanfare
Myroslaw Skoryk (1938–2020) — Melodia (organ transkription: Georgij Kurkov)
Jiří Ropek (1922–2005) — Variations on „Victimae Paschali Laudes“
Stanislav Šurin studied organ at the State Conservatory in Bratislava, at the Diocesan Conservatory in Vienna and at the Academy of Music and Drama in Bratislava under Ivan Sokol and privately with Johann Trummer in Graz. As a soloist, he performed many times with the Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra. At the premiere performance of Janáček’s Glagolitic Mass in Taiwan in 2000, he played the organ solo with the National Symphony Orchestra of Taiwan and has given organ recitals in many European states, Japan, in the USA, Mexico, Canada, Russia, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan. Stanislav Šurin recorded several organ solo CD´s (Graz Cathedral, Schubertkirche in Vienna, Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Trnava etc.). He is founder and organizer of organ festivals in Trnava, Piešťany, Skalica and at St. Martin Cathedral in Bratislava. He has been teaching organ at Catholic University in Ružomberok since 2002. He acts as advisor for the restoration of historical organs and for the building of new instruments (Slovak Philharmonic, St. Martin Cathedral in Bratislava etc.). He also has devoted himself to composing. For extraordinary contribution to the message of Johann Sebastian Bach’s work for contemporaries, in 2009 he was awarded a Sebastian prize by the Ars Ante Portas association. In 2016, he received the prize “Fra Angelico” from the Bishops’ Conference of Slovakia, for the contribution of Christian values to art in Slovakia. In 2022 he received The Prize of Federico II in Cefalú / Sicily.
Live at St. Paul’s Chapel — or, watch on YouTube.
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