Thursday 17 July 2008, at 8.00 pm
Aitor Olea Juaristi, organ
Aitor
Olea Juaristi was born in Durango (Bizkaia) and began his musical
training in Mondragon (Gipuzkoa) studying music theory and piano. In 1987
he joined the Conservatorio Superior de Música of San Sebastian
as a full-time student. In 1991 he joined the CNR of Bayonne (France)
in the organ class of Bernadette Carrau, completing his organ studies
in 1997 and being awarded the Medaille d’Or for interpretation and
sight-reading, as well as the Special Prize. He has attended organ interpretation
courses under Daniel Roth, Louis Robilliard and Jean Boyer. In 1995 he
obtained the Advanced Diploma for Piano at the Conservatorio Superior
Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga in Bilbao as an external student. He has
given concerts in France (Biarritz, Boceau, Urt, Longué, Puy de
Notre Dame, etc.), Germany (Hamburg, Winsen, Büsun, Kröpelin,
etc.), and England (Newcastle), and in many music festivals at home and
abroad. He has participated both on piano and organ in a whole host of
concerts mounted by the Sociedad Coral de Bilbao, the UPV (University
of the Basque Country) Choir and the Lausardi Abesbatza. Since 1988 he
has been organist at the Basilica of Santa Maria La Asunción in
Lekeitio (Bizkaia) which has an 1854 Cavaillé-Coll organ. In 2001
he took further his organ studies at the Conservatorio Jesus Guridi in
Vitoria, where he received an Honourable Mention and the Advanced Teaching
Certificate for Organ. He has recorded a number of CDs with the AUS ART
Records recording company as part of the collections Organos de Vasconia
and 20th Century Basque Organ Music. He is Artistic Director
of the Lea-Artibai International Organ Festival.
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Prelude & fugue in A minor, BWV 543Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921)
Prelude & fugue in E mnor, op. 99 no. 1 (1894)Ignacio Mocoroa (1902-1979)
Andantino for organ (1966)Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921)
Fantaisie in E flat minor (1857)
Prelude & fugue in E flat minor, op. 99 no. 3 (1897)Louis Vierne (1870-1937)
Naïades, op.55 no. 4 (1927)Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992)
Le banquet céleste (1928)
Dieu Parmi Nous (1935)