By Jacob Stockinger
This Saturday at 11 a.m. in Overture Hall of the Overture Center, the Madison Symphony Orchestra will offer another FREE Farmer’s Market Organ Recital.
The concert will last 45 minutes. No tickets or reservations are required. All ages are welcome to attend.
The organist this time is the prize-winning Simone Gheller.
Gheller (below) is an international organist from Padua, Italy. He has played concerts in prestigious locations in Italy, France, Germany, Austria, Brazil, and America among others. Gheller studied at Oberlin College in Ohio with Professor James David Christie and Olivier Latry, and currently serves as the Music Director and Organist at St. Jerome Catholic Church in Oconomowoc.
Gheller’s program will feature works by Liszt, Bossi, Thalben-Ball, Buck and Creston. Sorry, no word about specific works on the program. (You can hear Gheller playing a dramatic and animated work by Liszt in the YouTube video at the bottom.)
For more information about the performer, go to:
http://www.simonegheller.it/en/biography.html
For more information about the Farmer’s Market Organ Recitals, go to:
https://www.madisonsymphony.org/farmer
These free recitals are nice but I’d like to see the organ (an exceptional instrument made in Germany) integrated much more into the musical offerings of the Madison Symphony Orchestra. There’s a new organist, a very accomplished, youthful one, in the wings and he should be given more allowance for creativity and a hand with the very old musical maestro of the group (who in my opinion needs replacing).
Comment by FFlambeau — August 18, 2017 @ 9:32 pm