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