Organ Concert
    Tuesday, August 28, 20:00 at St Michael's Curch
          Erich Türk - "Gheorghe Dima" Music Academy of Cluj-Napoca

Program

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
      Toccata & Fugue in D minor BWV 565

Louis Nicolas Clérambault (1676-1749)
       Suite du deuxième ton
             Plein jeu- Duo- Trio- Basse de Cromorne- Flutes- Récit de nasard- Caprice sur les grands jeux

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
        Andante in F major KV 616

Rudolf Lassel (1861-1918)
        Prelude & Fugue in C minor 

Erich Türk (born in 1972) studied organ at the „Gheorghe Dima” Music Academy in Cluj with Ursula Philippi and at the University Of Music And Performing Arts in Vienna with Michael Radulescu. He also studied the harpsichord with Ilton Wjuniski and Gordon Murray. He participated at several master-classes for organ, harpsichord and basso continuo in Portugal, France, Germany, Switzerland and Moscow. Between 1995 and 1999 he had been organist and choir conductor of the Evangelical Church in Mediaş. Since 1995 he is teaching organ, harpsichord, figured bass and chamber music at the “Gh. Dima” Music Academy of Cluj-Napoca. As soloist as well as a member of the Baroque Ensemble “Transylvania” and other chamber music ensembles he is diligently performing throughout most European countries. He made radio, TV and CD recordings, and with the Baroque Ensemble “Transylvania” he realized a documentary DVD on Transylvanian music. At the international “J.S. Bach” Organ Contest in Bruges 2000 he has been awarded the 2nd prize and the public´s prize. In April 2004 he obtained his PhD degree for a dissertation written on the stylistics of organ building.