For the 4th “Enharmonic Interfaces and Controllers for Keyboard Instruments”
Special Edition: Extending the Organ’s Potential
at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna
12-13 December, 2025
All Paper sessions, demonstrations, and lectures will be held at the MDW at Seilerstätte 26, Festsaal.
All concerts will be held at St. Ursula, which is located at the same campus.
Program
December 12, 2025
Paper Session I:
11:00 ORGANON: Notation for organ music: Balancing prescriptive and descriptive models for an instrument without standardisation to unlock compositional and performative potential
11:30 Amar Priganica: The Symbolic Language of the Pipe Organ: Historical, Cross-Cultural, and Contemporary Perspectives
12:00-12:15 Coffee Break
Paper Session II:
12:15 Pier Damiano Peretti: Projekt und Identität: Biagio Putignano, "Desiderium animae" (2004)
13:00-15:00 Lunch Break
15:00 Concert 1:
(performed by: Magdalena Moser and Luca Lavuri)
Amok (solo organ) Akin Kilis
Fields (2 organs) Alexander Bauer
Beethorgan (solo organ) Angelo Bruzzese
La Luz y el Escondite (for Organ) Francis Rodriguez
erotion (solo organ) Mikael Maliks
Hums, of varying degrees (for mechanical organ and enharmonic organ) Marc Perez
Qualsiasi (solo organ) Veronika Reutz Drobnić
16:30 Lecture Beat Furrer
Title: Angelus descendens – für Orgel (2022)
17:30 Frescobaldi Demonstration/Open Mingling
December 13, 2025
11:00 Concert 2
(performed by: Valeria, Kseniia Podlipchuck, Aleksey Vylegzhanin, Forrest Moody)
el sonido luminoso (solo organ) Klaus Lang
The Mutations of Seasonal Color in the Forest as Every Pine Needle Expands and Swells (solo organ) Erich Barganier
Pitch Black (Sea) (for mechanical organ and enharmonic organ) Vlada Lysenko
Orgelstlück (solo organ) Maksim Sorokin
Meridian (for mechanical organ and enharmonic organ) Alyssa Aska
Erased Bach (excerpts) Wilyn Whiting
12:00-13:15 Lunch Break
Paper Session III:
13:15 Philipp Gerschlauer | Georg Vogel: From Amsterdam to Vienna: Enharmonic Performance and Interface Design between the Huygens-Fokker Organ and the 72-Tone Organ at MUK
13:45 Yifan Shao: Human is Organ: Multiphonic Singing and Beyond
14:15 Klaus Lang: white keys
14:45-15:00 Coffee Break
15:00 Concert 3
(performed by: Valeria Lanner, Manuel Fröschl, Kseniia Podlipchuk, Anton Ivanov, Florian Oberreiter, Aleksey Vylegzhanin, Forrest Moody)
Claves albae (2 Organs) Klaus Lang
archipelago (solo organ) Forrest Moody
the sound of the river was in my head (solo organ) Huw Morgan
Mobius (2 organs) Alyssa Aska
Stop Motion (e-organ) Martin Ritter
ірваныя хвалі туку крыніцы - ragged waves of fat-source (2 organs) Anton Schukau
Orgelpunkt (solo organ) Hermann Markus Preßl
Erased Bach (excerpts) Wilyn Whiting