Aurore Baal. Organ.Switzerland

Co-organizers:
Association Haliciana Schola Cantorum
Embassy of Switzerland in Ukraine

Aurore Baal is a French organist, pianist, harpsichordist and composer, now live in Switzerland. She studied piano, organ and theory of music in Lyon. Since 2007 she has worked as a piano teacher, as a choral musical director and accompanist, and she has organised numerous musical projects.
Aurore completed a Masters in Music Education in 2016 at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, focusing on early organ. She completed a Masters in Organ Performance at the Hochschule für Musik, Basel. She won many prizes among which is first prize in 2016 in Innsbruck (Paul- Hofhaimer Competition), that was awarded only 6 times since 1971.
She has performed in France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg and Switzerland, Ukraine and other countries as both a soloist and an accompanist. In 2017 she was appointed organist of St Michael‘s church, Zug (Switzerland).
This time, we hear in her perform a whole range of elegant organ music - from the early works of Anonymous from the Montreal organ book in 1700 to the masterpieces of Olivier Messiean and the works of Hector Cornilleau.

Aurore Baal - organ (Switzerland/France)
Emanuel Planetell - declamation

Anonymous circa from the Montreal organ book - "Magnificat of the first tone"
F. Liszt - "Trauerode"
C. Balbastre "Romance"
E. Satie - "Ogive 1"
A. Honegger - "Dance of the Sulamite"
G. Bovet - "Salamanca"
D. de Séverac - "Suite for organ in E minor"
O. Messiaen - "The Nativity of the Lord"
J.C. Henry - "The flute of the sylph"
H. Cornilleau - Toccata "Suite in Minor Mist"