Lunchtime Organ Recital: Zsombor Toth-Vajna

for 30 mins
The Temple Church, London
The Temple Church, Temple, London EC4Y 7BB, EC4Y 1BB, United Kingdom

Louis Couperin (1626-1661) - Duretez Fantaisie

Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583-1643) - Capriccio di durezze F 4.09

John Blow (1649-1708) - Verse in C (No.2)

Giovanni Battista Draghi (1640-1708) - Toccata grave

John Blow (1649-1708) - Psalm 113

Jeremiah Clarke (1674-1707) - The Duke of Gloucester’s March

George Frederick Handel (1685-1759) - Larghetto from Organ Concerto in F major Op.4/5. HWV 293

George Frederick Handel (1685-1759) - Air from Water Music (arranged for four-hands, playing with Gergely Tóth-Vajna), HWV 348

A specialist in early keyboard instruments and a conductor, Zsombor Tóth-Vajna is one of the outstanding figures of this generation of young Hungarian musicians. At the Liszt Academy in Budapest, he graduated with honours in harpsichord and organ as a pupil of Miklós Spányi and Borbála Dobozy, then completed a Master’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 Richard Egarr and Zsolt Hamar. In addition, he completed studies at the General Medicine programme at the Faculty of Medicine, Semmelweis University in Budapest. He is a frequent guest at concert venues in Hungary and abroad, 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 Hungarian Radio and Hungarian Television, including some with András Batta, to popularize early keyboard music. He is the conductor and artistic director of the Harmonia Caelestis Baroque Orchestra, founded in 2015, and his passion for keyboard music for four-hands finds expression in the Piano e Forte Duo, with his twin Gergely. He further perfected his keyboard skills at masterclasses with Pierre Hantai, Skip Sempé, Ton Koopman, Masaaki Suzuki, Malcolm Bilson, Lorenzo Ghielmi, Christine Schornsheim, Luigi Ferdinando Tagliavini, Jon Laukvik, Andreas Staier, and Hans Fagius. As a teacher, he has given masterclasses in Hungary and abroad, and has been a member of the juries at international competitions. In 2020 he gained a scholarship for a doctorate at the Royal College of Music in London. His field of research is performance practice in seventeenth-century English keyboard music, especially the organ works of John Blow and Henry Purcell. To date, he has released nine solo CDs. In 2013, Zsombor Tóth-Vajna earned the highest recognition of the Semmelweis University, the Kerpel Prize, in 2015 the magazine La Femme included him in the list of the fifty most talented young people in Hungary, and in 2019 he won the Bach Festival Prize.

All the recitals will be live-streamed on the Church's YouTube Channel. Please see below for the direct links

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Lunchtime Organ Recital: Zsombor Toth-Vajna

for 30 mins
The Temple Church, London
The Temple Church, Temple, London EC4Y 7BB, EC4Y 1BB, United Kingdom

Louis Couperin (1626-1661) - Duretez Fantaisie

Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583-1643) - Capriccio di durezze F 4.09

John Blow (1649-1708) - Verse in C (No.2)

Giovanni Battista Draghi (1640-1708) - Toccata grave

John Blow (1649-1708) - Psalm 113

Jeremiah Clarke (1674-1707) - The Duke of Gloucester’s March

George Frederick Handel (1685-1759) - Larghetto from Organ Concerto in F major Op.4/5. HWV 293

George Frederick Handel (1685-1759) - Air from Water Music (arranged for four-hands, playing with Gergely Tóth-Vajna), HWV 348

A specialist in early keyboard instruments and a conductor, Zsombor Tóth-Vajna is one of the outstanding figures of this generation of young Hungarian musicians. At the Liszt Academy in Budapest, he graduated with honours in harpsichord and organ as a pupil of Miklós Spányi and Borbála Dobozy, then completed a Master’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 Richard Egarr and Zsolt Hamar. In addition, he completed studies at the General Medicine programme at the Faculty of Medicine, Semmelweis University in Budapest. He is a frequent guest at concert venues in Hungary and abroad, 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 Hungarian Radio and Hungarian Television, including some with András Batta, to popularize early keyboard music. He is the conductor and artistic director of the Harmonia Caelestis Baroque Orchestra, founded in 2015, and his passion for keyboard music for four-hands finds expression in the Piano e Forte Duo, with his twin Gergely. He further perfected his keyboard skills at masterclasses with Pierre Hantai, Skip Sempé, Ton Koopman, Masaaki Suzuki, Malcolm Bilson, Lorenzo Ghielmi, Christine Schornsheim, Luigi Ferdinando Tagliavini, Jon Laukvik, Andreas Staier, and Hans Fagius. As a teacher, he has given masterclasses in Hungary and abroad, and has been a member of the juries at international competitions. In 2020 he gained a scholarship for a doctorate at the Royal College of Music in London. His field of research is performance practice in seventeenth-century English keyboard music, especially the organ works of John Blow and Henry Purcell. To date, he has released nine solo CDs. In 2013, Zsombor Tóth-Vajna earned the highest recognition of the Semmelweis University, the Kerpel Prize, in 2015 the magazine La Femme included him in the list of the fifty most talented young people in Hungary, and in 2019 he won the Bach Festival Prize.

All the recitals will be live-streamed on the Church's YouTube Channel. Please see below for the direct links

More info Join online

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