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ORGAN & MUSIC FESTIVAL RHODES
1 – 5 October, 2024 – 12th edition
Church of St. Francis
(28 Dimokratias str., St. Athanasios Gate – Rhodes Town)
All concerts start at 8:00 pm. Admission Free
Presentation: Greek | English | Italian
Tuesday, October 1, 2024
Robert Kovács (Hungary), pipe organ recital
Wednesday, October 2, 2024
Mixed Choir and Mandolin orchestra of the City of Petaludes
Flora Pelekanou (Greece), conductor
Robert Kovács (Hungary), pipe organ
Thursday, October 3, 2024
Gianluca Cagnani (Italy), pipe organ recital
In collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute in Athens
Friday, October 4, 2024 – Feast of St. Francis
Silent film “Frate Sole” (Brother Sun, 1918)
Musical commentary and organ improvisation by Gianluca Cagnani (Italy)
In collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute in Athens
Saturday, 5 October, 2024
Vocal Ensemble “Les Solistes de Beyrouth”
Fernando Afara (Lebanon), conductor
Gianluca Cagnani (Italy), pipe organ
ORGAN & MUSIC FESTIVAL SYRIA
Damascus | Aleppo | Latakia – 8th edition
22 – 30 April 2025
BREAKING NEWS: The concerts scheduled for April are postponed to a later date, which will be communicated.
PLEASE, NOTE: You can watch the concerts live-streamed at the Damascus Opera House (time zone UTC +3) here:
https://www.facebook.com/share/WzHQ1zXk41XvaP8V/?mibextid=LQQJ4d
SOL – SEMAINE DE L’ORGUE AU LIBAN
LEBANESE PIPE ORGAN WEEK 2025
March 27 – April 6 – 10th edition
Thursday, March 27, 8:00 pm
BEIRUT | National Evangelical Church
Wolfgang Reisinger (Austria), pipe organ
In collaboration with the Embassy of Austria
Monday, 31 March, 8:00 pm
ZOUK MOSBEH | Church of Notre Dame de Louaizeh – OMM
Roberto Prosseda (Italy), piano & Eugenio Maria Fagiani (Italy), pipe organ
Concert organized by the Italian Cultural Institute of Beirut in collaboration with the SOL Festival and with the patronage of the Italian Embassy in Lebanon
Tuesday, April 1, 7:00 pm
TRIPOLI (El Mina) | Latin Church of St. Francis – Custody of the Holy Land
Louisa El Khoury (Lebanon), soprano voice & Matteo El Khoder (Lebanon), countertenor voice
Wednesday, April 2, 6:00 pm
HARISSA | Church of St. Anthony of Padua – Custody of the Holy Land
Louisa El Khoury (Lebanon), soprano voice & Matteo El Khoder (Lebanon), countertenor
Thursday, April 3, 8:00 pm
AJALTOUN | Church of Mar Zakhia
Elie Njeim (Lebanon), trumpet & Eugenio Maria Fagiani (Italy), pipe organ
In collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute of Beirut and Ajaltoun Centre Culturel
Friday, April 4, 8:00 pm
BEIRUT Gemmaizeh | Collège des Frères, Sacré-Coeur
Nuit française pour les 70 ans de Naji Hakim
Naji Hakim (Lebanon/France), pipe organ
In collaboration with Institut Français Liban and the patronage of the French Embassy
Sunday, April 6, 8:00 pm
BEIRUT | National Evangelical Church
Francisco Javier López García (Spain), pipe organ
In collaboration with the Embassy of Spain
Notre Dame University-Louaize (NDU) and Terra Sancta Organ Festival have the pleasure of presenting the tenth edition of the SOL Festival (Semaine de l’Orgue au Liban | Lebanese Pipe Organ Week) from March 27 to April 4, 2025. Admission is free to all concerts.
The Lebanese Pipe Organ Week is the only festival in Lebanon to highlight this monumental instrument, played by renowned international organists and musicians. The festival takes place in different churches and venues in many areas of Lebanon (in this edition the concerts will be in Beirut, Zouk Mosbeh, Ajaltoun, Harissa and Tripoli) allowing the audience to explore different music repertoires. Thanks to the joint venture between Notre Dame University and Terra Sancta Organ Festival, the Lebanese Pipe Organ Week has strong local roots and, at the same time, an international dimension.
This year’s 10th anniversary of the SOL Festival coincides with another anniversary: the 70th birthday of the great Lebanese and French organist and composer Naji Hakim. With him and for him, we have organized a special concert in Beirut on April 4th in the church of the Sacred Heart College (Gemmaizeh) on the French organ “Debierre” (built in 1935, 90 years ago: another anniversary!), the organ on which Naji learned to play. In addition, as a birthday present, all organists will feature a piece by Naji Hakim in their program.
The opening on March 27th is entrusted to the Austrian organist and composer Wolfgang Reisinger, who will play on the Austrian organ “Rieger” of the National Evangelical Church of Beirut.
For the first time, a piano and organ duo will perform at the Sol Festival and in Lebanon since 1973. Two of the top Italian players of these instruments have been invited to this special event: Roberto Prosseda on piano and Eugenio Maria Fagiani on organ (Zouk Mosbeh, Church of Notre Dame de Louaizeh, March 31). Fagiani will also play on April 3 in the church of Mar Zachia in Ajaltoun with the Lebanese trumpeter Elie Njeim.
Soprano voice Louisa El Khoury and countertenor Matteo El Khoder will be the protagonists of the famous cantata by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi “Stabat Mater”, a musical meditation on the sorrows of the Virgin Mary under the cross (April 1, in the church of St. Francis in Tripoli El Mina; April 2, in the church of St. Anthony of Padua, Harissa).
Spanish Francisco Javier López García, titular organist of the Cathedral of Ávila (Spain), will close the SOL Festival 2025 on Sunday, April 6 at the National Evangelical Church of Beirut with the program “The Soul of Spain: Organ Music from the Renaissance to the Present”.
We are sure that Lebanese music lovers will appreciate our artistic proposals.
Website: https://solfestival.org/
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Concerts in Jordan will be announced
No concerts in Israel and Palestine in 2024
Larnaka (Cyprus)
Church of Our Lady of Graces (Terra Santa street)
8:00 pm free admission.
Larnaca Progressive Movement Choir
Marios Lysandrou (Cyprus), conductor
Joe Daou (Lebanon), pipe organ
Ada Zeniou (Cyprus), piano
The Terra Sancta Organ Festival is pleased to have collaborated in the organization of the concert-meditation “In the beginning was the Logos” which will take place in Milan in the Church of San Carlo al Lazzaretto on April 8, 2025.