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.
Classical Concert
Lukas Hasler, organ
An Evening of Opera at Phillips House
Drawing inspiration from the extensive 1920s record catalogue of Anna Phillips, the last private owner of Phillips House, this hour-long concert will highlight arias, art songs, and piano works taken from the canon of musical greats such as Verdi, Puccini, Mozart, and more!
Lexington Symphony - Exotic Nights
Exotic Nights
Rimsky-Korsakov | Scheherazade
—Scott Moore, violin
Hindemith | Symphonic Metamorphosis on Themes by Carl Maria von Weber
Scheherazade, based on the Middle Eastern folktales, One Thousand and One Nights, showcases Rimsky-Korsakov’s mastery as an orchestrator and storyteller. Waves of sound feature many instrumental solos with a prominent role throughout for the solo violin. Our very own talented Concertmaster, Scott Moore, will be featured in this performance. The German-Jewish composer Paul Hindemith was newly settled in New York in 1951 when he transformed his sketches of a ballet based on themes by Carl Maria von Weber into his “American Symphony”.