With more than 80,000 followers on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube, 29-year-old Austrian organist Lukas Hasler is one of the world’s most successful organists on social media and is gaining recognition for his colorful and passionate musicality. Named “rising star” by the Austrian newspaper Kleine Zeitung in 2020, The 2019 Gran Prix winner at the International Organ Competition and a two-time Prima la Musica music competition winner has a thriving international concert career, which has taken him to Europe, Asia, and Australia as well as to some of the largest cathedrals in the United States. In 2022, he was the first classical musician to perform in Ukraine after the start of the war and played two benefit concerts in the Lviv Concert Hall for the victims of the war.
Lukas Hasler, organ
Music Worcester presents: BACHtoberfest: Peter Krasinski, organ
In 1863, Elias and George Hook began the installation of the custom-built instrument, fit perfectly for the Great Hall. The Hook Organ is made up of 3,504 pipes and 52 stops. Listeners flock to hear this organ played, both for its history and for its intensity and story. Hear the Great Hall fill with sound at this afternoon organ recital.
Music Worcester presents: Orchestre National de France & Daniil Trifonov, piano
The programming of Elsa Barraine’s Symphony No. 2 with its’ gumptous string lines that compliment the playfulness of the work’s structure sits beautifully in the program with Ravel’s Daphnis & Chloé. A grandiose work, Ravel envisioned Daphnis & Chloé as “a vast musical fresco, in which [he] was less concerned with archaism than with fidelity to the Greece of [his] dreams.”
The Worcester Organ Performance Series: A Festive Performance of Holiday Music
Celebrate the season of light with well-known classics and songs of the season. Audience sing-alongs, silent film accompaniment, and other delights await!
Celebrity Series of Boston presents Tony Siqi Yun, piano
A Groton Hill exclusive!
Still in his early 20s and only two years out of Juilliard, Canadian pianist Tony Siqi Yun is already making waves as a soloist and recitalist. Praised for his refinement, muscular sound, and intimate expressivity, Yun has “an emergent big personality” (Philadelphia Inquirer) that makes him a pianist you’ll want to experience firsthand.
Yun’s debut program spans lyrical Bach/Busoni, Beethoven's radiant "Waldstein" Sonata, Berio's crystalline Wasserklavier, Liszt's virtuosic Réminiscences de Norma, and Brahms' epic Piano Sonata No. 3. It's a thrilling journey through color, clarity, and intensity—perfectly suited to showcase the express range of this rising star.
A compelling introduction to a must-hear young artist, the program promises to showcase the poetry and power that set Tony Siqi Yun apart on the global stage.