Behind the scenes...

Organist Jesper Madsen

• Messis brudstykker (Messis - fragments)
  
• Hjemad (Homewards)
  
• Fantasi over "Dronning Dagmar" (Fantasia over "Queen Dagmar")
  
• Fantasi (til Ribe Domkirke eller Marmorkirken) (Fantasia - To Ribe Cathedral or the Marmorkirken))
  
• Som Lynet er Kristi Genkomst (As Lightning Cometh Christ Again)
  
• ¯de Gader (Deserted Streets)
  
• Dantes "Helvede" (Dante's "Inferno")
  

• Born 1957 in Frederiksberg. Died 1999.

• Studied to be an organist at the West Jutland Academy of Music under organist Peter M¿ller and cathedral organist Niels Henrik Nielsen.

• Diploma in Church Music, June 1982. Same year appointed organist and cantor at the Klosterkirken, Nyk¿bing Falster.

• Has attended master courses under Anton Heiller and Michael Radulescu.

• Short study trips to Belgium, England, France.

• In 1981 won 2nd. Prize at the International Organ Competition in Deventer, NL

• In 1986 won 2nd. Prize at the International Organ Competition in Odense, DK

• 1985 - 1990 temporary appointment at the Funen Academy of Music in Odense.

• 1989 - 1994 temporary appointment at The Royal Danish Academy of Music, Copenhagen.

• Many concerts as an organ solist at home and abroad, including the USA, Germany, England and Hungary.

• Guest teacher at "Oundle Int. Summerschool for Young Organists" England, 1988, the F. Liszt Academy, Budapest, and The School of Music in Gyšr, Hungary, 1994.

• Guest teacher for Hungarian students of the organ (improvisation & repetoire) on a study trip to Denmark, March 1996.

• Recorded his first CD in 1991 with organ works by M. Weckmann (1617 - 1674).

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