Organ Recital
The 2024 Cathedral Organ Recital Series welcomes first-rate organists to play Truro’s acclaimed Father Willis Organ. This week we welcome Victoria Ulriksen. This recital will be live-streamed on this page at 13:10 and our YouTube channel
Programme
Edvard Grieg (1843–1907): From the Holberg Suite, Op. 40, arr. Kåre Nordstoga;
- Praeludium
J. S. Bach (1685–1750): Concerto in d-minor, BWV 596
- Allegro
- Grave
- Fuga
- Largo e Spiccato
- Allegro
Julius Reubke (1834 –1858): Sonata on the 94th Psalm
1. Grave - Larghetto - Allegro con fuoco - Grave
2. Adagio - Lento
3. Allegro - Più mosso - Allegro
Bio
Victoria Ulriksen (b. 2006) studies organ in her bachelor’s degree at the Norwegian Academy of Music with cantor and professor Kåre Nordstoga, and fortepiano and modern piano with professor emerita Liv Glaser. From 2024, she will also study organ in parallel on the HMT Leipzig with prof. Dr Martin Schmeding. She regularly attends masterclasses in Europe, most commonly with Olivier Latry, Michel Bouvard, Leo van Doeselaar and Martin Schmeding.
Already in 2019, she made a name for herself with several appearances on Norway’s Got Talent on TV2. She has received prizes in competitions both at home and abroad, including 1st prize in the final of the Youth Music Championship and the audience prize in the international Maria Hofer Orgelwettbewerb 2023.
Victoria gave her debut recital at age 15, and she regularly gives solo recitals in Norway, where she is often heard in Nidaros Cathedral and Oslo Cathedral. She made her debut abroad in 2023 when she played concerts on Scandinavia’s only Cavaillé-Coll organ in Copenhagen and on a historic Serassi organ in Bergamo, Italy.
Her summer tour 2024 in England consisted of recitals in Blackburn Cathedral, St Olave's Church York and Chesterfield Crooked Spire. She will play in Truro Cathedral in August. She also played a summer recital in Fraumünster Zürich, and a spring recital in Uppsala Cathedral, which is the largest church in Scandinavia.
In the autumn of 2024, she plays 2 recitals during Bergen International Organ Festival, recital in Haderslev Cathedral, Parrocchia di Col di Cugnan in Italy, and again at the Cavaillé-Coll organ in The Jesus Church Copenhagen during the Nordic Church Music Festival.
She has played several concerts at a number of festivals such as the Oslo International Church Music Festival, and played at the International Organ Festival Haarlem on the famous organ in St. Bavo (Netherland), Festival des Orgues Cavaillé-Coll Rouen, and 4 times at the opening of the Salzburg Festival. She has performed in 11 countries.
Next year’s England-tour already includes cathedrals such as Southwark, Bradford, Blackburn and St Chad’s in Birmingham. She is also reinvited to Fraumünster Zürich in the summer of 2025.
Live-stream
The series runs from March to October and each recital lasts around 45 minutes. There is no charge to attend or listen to these concerts. We rely on your support to help with the cost of maintaining the cathedral’s famous Father Willis Organ. Keeping the cathedral’s musical instruments in first-rate condition enables us to put on such recitals.
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