7:30 PM | The Church of Immaculate Heart of Mary

The concert illustrates the magnificence and monolithic nature as well as the poeticism of the organ sound.

Pavao Mašić’s performance will open with the composition In nomine lucis (1974) by Italian composer Giacinto Scelsi (1905 – 1988). The French composer and organist Thomas Lacôte (1982) succeeded the great Olivier Messiaen as the organist of the Church of Holy Trinity in Paris, and as the head of the Department of Music Analysis of the Conservatory in Paris.

We will also hear the first performance of the composition Best of Five (2011) by Slovenian composer Vito Žuraj (1979). An unstoppable motion connects this series of five etudes, and the listeners must judge which one is the best.

The concert will also include two first performances. One is the composition Sanctificetur nomen tuum (2019) by Davorin Kempf (1947), written for Pavao Mašić, a virtuoso fantasia of lavish sonority, interlaced with Baroque quotes and archetypal motifs treated with various composing techniques.

The second, in the second part of the concert, is a composition Metamórphōsis III by young composer Marko Slaviček realized by organist Katarina Javora.

The concert ends with the composition by Romanian-German composer Adriana Hölszky, who describes her pieces as “sound spaces” in which these spaces expand and shrink, and the sound areas alternate; she compares it to a film editing of sharp cuts and smooth transitions.