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SUMMARY:Lunchtime Organ Recital: Nicolas Kilhoffer
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DESCRIPTION:Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) \nPrelude and Fugue in B min
 or\, BWV 544 \n\nCharles-Marie Widor (1844-1937) \nSymphony for Organ No. 
 5 in F minor\, Op. 42 No. 1 \nAllegro vivace \n\nNicolas Kilhoffer (b. 200
 2) \nImprovisation\n\n\nBorn in 2002 in Saverne (Eastern France)\, Nicolas
  Kilhoffer started learning the piano at the age of 7. After teaching hims
 elf organ and playing at church from the age of 10\, he had lessons in his
  hometown music school before being admitted to the Conservatoire in Stras
 bourg in 2017 where his teachers included Daniel Maurer (organ and improvi
 sation)\, Elyette Weil (piano) and Gaël Lozac’h (harmony). Studying bus
 iness in Nantes\, Nicolas Kilhoffer completed his training in piano at the
  Conservatoire there in with Victoria Kamyshinets. He also attended severa
 l masterclasses given by Vincent Dubois\, Thierry Escaich and Thomas Ospit
 al\, and now has the opportunity to study under the guidance of Johann Vex
 o (choir organist at Notre-Dame de Paris) and Philippe Lefebvre (Notre-Dam
 e de Paris) in addition to his programme at the Conservatoire de Paris wit
 h Christophe Mantoux. He regularly performs in France and abroad (Austria\
 , Belgium\, Canada\, Italy\, the United States\, Greece\, Kenya\, Portugal
 ) in recitals where improvisation plays a central role. He has had the opp
 ortunity to play numerous instruments during recent residencies in Austral
 ia and New Caledonia. Nicolas Kilhoffer has also taught improvisation in N
 airobi (Kenya)\, leading a masterclass attended by many organists from Eas
 t Africa\, and more recently at the University of Victoria in British Colu
 mbia as part of an exchange semester. www.nicolaskilhoffer.com\n\n\nThe Te
 mple Church organ\nThe organ in the Temple church was built in 1924 for th
 e Castle of Glen Tanar\, Aberdeenshire\, and installed in 1954 in the rebu
 ilt church (following war damage)\, the gift of Lord Glentanar. The organ 
 case was designed by W. E. Godfrey and installed in 1966 and is modelled o
 n drawings of the Temple’s Father Smith organ of 1688\, showing the cres
 ts of Inner and Middle Temple. The organ was rebuilt in 2013 by Harrison a
 nd Harrison of Durham and has 66 stops over four manuals.
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LOCATION:The Temple Church\, London
URL:https://www.templechurch.com/music/lunchtime-organ-recitals
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