Organ talk: “Bach managed to convey everything this theme can give,“ Olga Kotlyarova on Passacaglia

#OrganTalk #Mariinsky_interview #Mariinsky_organ The third issue of the “Organ talk“ series features Olga Kotlyarova (St. Petersburg). After describing the opportunities of the organ “Alfred Kern et fils“ at the Mariinsky Concert Hall, Olga analyses the Passacaglia and Fugue by J. S. Bach and tells the story of the reviving of Bach’s legacy by Romantic composers: Felix Mendelssohn, Johannes Brahms and Franz Liszt. Watch the video to the end not to miss the little master classes on organ registration in it! :: Olga Kotlyarova was born in Moscow. She began to play the piano at the age of four. She graduated from the Rimsky-Korsakov St Petersburg State Conservatory (piano class of Yekaterina Murina), where she began to study the organ and harpsichord (classes of Tatiana Chausova and Ivan Rozanov). А prize-winner at the Serebryakov All-Russian Piano Competition (Volgograd, 1996; 1st prize), the Beethoven Chamber Ensembles’ Competition (St Petersburg, 2001; 2nd prize), the Mikael Tariverdiev International Organ Competition (Kaliningrad, 2003; Hope of the Fatherland special prize), the International Piano Competition Emmanuel Durlet (Antwerp, 2005; 1st prize) and the Austrian Baroque Academy competition (Gmunden, 2005; 2nd prize). Has trained as a pianist under Dmitri Novgorodsky, Włodzimierz Obidowicz and Stefan Bojsten, as an organist under Pieter van Dijk, Jan Raas, Jacques van Oortmerssen, Leo van Doeselaar, Jon Laukvik, Martin Haselböck, Martin Sander, Alexander Fiseysky and a harpsichord player under Jacques Ogg, Jory Vinicour. ::