Premier Classic

Venue

Львів, House of Organ and Chamber Music

Date and time

26 August 2018, Sunday 19:00

This summer, Lviv will be home to organists from all over the world for two weeks. From August 13 to August 26, the Organ Hall will host the 8th Lviv Organ Festival. 13 concerts, master classes and hours of good music!
The soloist of the National House of Organ and Chamber Music, People's Artist of Ukraine Volodymyr Koshuba will close our festival on August 26. We will hear the music of Strauss, Leffebravel, Petralli, learn about such composers as Willan, Linstren, Lindberg, Lang, James, Ketelbey. All works will be performed in Lviv and Ukraine for the first time!

Volodymyr Koshuba graduated the Kyiv Conservatory as a pianist. While studying, he was fascinated by the organ that taught at that time as an elective. He played for some time on an electro organ in the chamber orchestra of the Kyiv State Philharmonic. When the faculty of the organ opened in the conservatory, he became its student at the second time. Having received the organist's diploma in 1981, he became the soloist of the newly opened House of Organ and Chamber Music in Kyiv.Organist actively tours in North and South America, Europe, Asia. Volodymyr Koshuba is the only Ukrainian instrumentalist to perform at the Notre Dame de Paris and the famous music festivals in Salzburg. Having recorded a number of discs in Ukraine, the USA, Switzerland. In 1999, the American Biographical Institute (ABI) include Volodymyr Koshuba to the World catalog of musicians of the new millennium. In 2007 he was elected president of the All-Ukrainian Association of Organists and Organ Makers. Simultaneously teaches organ at the Kyiv Special Music School.

Volodymyr Koshuba - organ

R. Strauss - “Also sprach Zarathustra”, Op. 30*

R. Linstren - "Overture Intrada" (devoted to V. Koshuba)*

C.S. Lang - "Tuba tune in the D-Major", op. 15

L. Lefebure-Wely - "Concert Bolero", op.166 *

O. Lindberg - Old Swedish Psalm*

H. Willan - Introduction and Passacaglia in es-moll*

G. Young - "Prelude in Classic Style” *

V.A. Petralli - "In the march style" *

F. James - "Meditation a Sainte Clotilde" *

A.W. Ketelbey - "In a Monastery Garden" *

* first performance in Ukraine