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SUMMARY:Lunchtime Organ Recital: Zsombor Toth-Vajna
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DESCRIPTION:Louis Couperin (1626-1661) - Duretez Fantaisie \n\nGirolamo Fr
 escobaldi (1583-1643) - Capriccio di durezze F 4.09\n\nJohn Blow (1649-170
 8) - Verse in C (No.2)\n\nGiovanni Battista Draghi (1640-1708) - Toccata g
 rave\n\nJohn Blow (1649-1708) - Psalm 113\n\nJeremiah Clarke (1674-1707) -
  The Duke of Gloucester’s March \n\nGeorge Frederick Handel (1685-1759) 
 - Larghetto from Organ Concerto in F major Op.4/5. HWV 293\n\nGeorge Frede
 rick Handel (1685-1759) - Air from Water Music (arranged for four-hands\, 
 playing with Gergely Tóth-Vajna)\, HWV 348\n\nA specialist in early keybo
 ard instruments and a conductor\, Zsombor Tóth-Vajna is one of the outsta
 nding figures of this generation of young Hungarian musicians. At the Lisz
 t Academy in Budapest\, he graduated with honours in harpsichord and organ
  as a pupil of Miklós Spányi and Borbála Dobozy\, then completed a Mast
 er’s degree in the Conservatorium van Amsterdam\, where he graduated in 
 organ\, harpsichord\, fortepiano\, and clavichord under Menno van Delft\, 
 Richard Egarr\, and Jacques van Oortmerssen. He studied conducting with Ri
 chard Egarr and Zsolt Hamar.  In addition\, he completed studies at the Ge
 neral Medicine programme at the Faculty of Medicine\, Semmelweis Universit
 y in Budapest. He is a frequent guest at concert venues in Hungary and abr
 oad\, from the Thomaskirche in Leipzig to Handel House in London\, and he 
 has appeared as keyboard soloist and conductor not only in many countries 
 in Europe\, but also in the United States.  He has made recordings for Hun
 garian Radio and Hungarian Television\, including some with András Batta\
 , to popularize early keyboard music. He is the conductor and artistic dir
 ector of the Harmonia Caelestis Baroque Orchestra\, founded in 2015\, and 
 his passion for keyboard music for four-hands finds expression in the Pian
 o e Forte Duo\, with his twin Gergely.  He further perfected his keyboard 
 skills at masterclasses with Pierre Hantai\, Skip Sempé\, Ton Koopman\, M
 asaaki Suzuki\, Malcolm Bilson\, Lorenzo Ghielmi\, Christine Schornsheim\,
  Luigi Ferdinando Tagliavini\, Jon Laukvik\, Andreas Staier\, and Hans Fag
 ius.  As a teacher\, he has given masterclasses in Hungary and abroad\, an
 d has been a member of the juries at international competitions. In 2020 h
 e gained a scholarship for a doctorate at the Royal College of Music in Lo
 ndon. His field of research is performance practice in seventeenth-century
  English keyboard music\, especially the organ works of John Blow and Henr
 y Purcell.  To date\, he has released nine solo CDs. In 2013\, Zsombor To
 ́th-Vajna earned the highest recognition of the Semmelweis University\, t
 he Kerpel Prize\, in 2015 the magazine La Femme included him in the list o
 f the fifty most talented young people in Hungary\, and in 2019 he won the
  Bach Festival Prize.  \n\nAll the recitals will be live-streamed on the C
 hurch's YouTube Channel. Please see below for the direct links
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LOCATION:The Temple Church\, London
URL:https://www.templechurch.com/music/lunchtime-organ-recitals
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