Summer! Organ: Ja-Kyung Oh

Programme

Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck 1562-1621
Fantasia Cromatica a 4

Johann Kaspar Kerll 1627-93
Passacaglia in D minor

Dietrich Buxtehude 1637-1707
Toccata in F, BuxWV 156

Kyung Hwa Chae b. 1958
Blue Bird (2019)

Johann Sebastian Bach 1685-1750
Chorales from the “Organ Mass”
Allein Gott in der Höh’ sei Ehr’ BWV 676
Dies sind die heiligen zehn Gebot, BWV 678
Wir glauben all an einen Gott, BWV 680
Jesus Christus, unser Heiland, der von uns den Gotteszorn wand BWV 688
Fuga à 5 pro Organo pleno, BWV 552, 2

Ja-Kyung Oh, organ

Admission free, donations welcome

About the programme

Ja-Kyung Oh studied organ in Seoul and in Ann Arbor, USA. She was appointed Professor at the Korea National University of Arts (KNUA) in 2000. Her outstanding achievements include overseeing the building of an historic organ by GOArt of Sweden in 2006. In 2009 she became director of the Early Music Institute at the Korea National University of Arts, and in 2021 founded the Early Music Department at her university. She spent a semester at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music as a senior Fulbright Scholar. She has performed worldwide, playing on numerous historic instruments throughout Europe and is a jury member of many organ competitions. In 2020 she was President of the Jury at the first International Organ Competition in Korea, supported by the Lotte Foundation for Arts.