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Three of Charlie Chaplin’s best loved short films: The Champion (1915), The Cure (1917) and The Adventurer (1917). Accompanied live by Michael Dirk, Maria Gajraj and Koos van Nieuwkoop on the historic Wurlitzer organ.
Aart Bijkerk, organist. More details to come.
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| Concert repeated on February 13, also at 7:30pm at Christ Church Cathedral, Victoria
For more info about Anna Lapwood: https://annalapwood.co.uk/ |
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| For more info about Anna Lapwood: https://annalapwood.co.uk/ |
Johannes Skoog
Winner of the First Prize and the Bach Prize at the 2024 Canadian International Organ Competition, Johannes Skoog is one of Sweden’s brightest young organists. In addition to his major competition win in Canada, Johannes Skoog was recently appointed and honored by His Majesty the King of Sweden to be the new Royal Court Organist, beginning in April 2025.
Mr. Skoog has performed solo concerts at distinguished venues throughout Europe including the notable Bozar concert house in Brussels, Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris, and Stockholm Town Hall. He holds degrees from the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et Danse de Paris France, and the Staatliche Musikhochschule in Stuttgart Germany, and his teachers have included Olivier Latry, Nathan Laube, Louis Robilliard, Michel Bouvard, Thierry Escaich and Mathias Kjellgren.
The recipient of multiple scholarships from the Swedish and French Academies of music, Skoog is also the only student ever to have received the highest grade in organ interpretation (mention très bien à l’unanimité avec félicitations du jury), for both years of the master’s program at the Paris Conservatory.
Johannes Skoog spent five years as Associate Organist at the cathedral of Västerås. He currently teaches organ interpretation at Lilla Akademien, in Stockholm.
Aart Bijkerk, organist. More details to come.
In collaboration with the St. James Music Series.
More info to come in the spring of 2027
More details to come later in 2026 and in early 2027.
Will include concerts by renowned performers, workshops, masterclasses, and the RCCO National Organ Competition.