International Organ Summer in Hallgrímskirkja

Saturday 10. August at 12:00 – 12:30

Susannah Carlsson, concert organist at the Cathedral of Lund, Sweden

Performs pieces by Johann Sebastian Bach, Eli Tausen á Lava, Charles Marie Widor, Johan Alain and Maurice Duruflé.

Tickets 2500 ISK

International Organ Summer in Hallgrímskirkja

Sunday 11. August at 17:00 – 18:00

Susannah Carlsson, concert organist at the Cathedral of Lund, Sweden

Performing pieces by Johann Sebastian Bach, Eli Tausen á Lava, Charles Marie Widor, Louis Vierne, Johan Alain and Maurice Duruflé.

Tickets 3000 ISK

Susannah Carlsson started playing the piano according to the Suzuki method at the age of five. She played her first solo concert in the Gothenburg Concert Hall as a 12-year-old and as a piano soloist with orchestra as a 16-year-old. She has a master’s degree from The Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen in both piano and organ.

She has received a number of scholarships, including from the Royal Academy of Music in Stockholm. Her professional activities were mainly based in Copenhagen, Denmark until she became assistant director of music at the Cathedral in Lund. Susannah freelances as a concert organist and also teaches improvisation and liturgical music at the Academy of Music in Malmö.

Saturday August 10th at 12 pm

Johann Sebastian Bach 1685-1750 

Preludium and Fuga in C Major BWV 545 

Eli Tausen á Lava 1997- 

Danse Grotesque (2018) 

Charles-Marie Widor 1844-1937 

From Symphony No. 5 in F minor op. 42 no. 1 (1879) 

Andante cantabile 

Jehan Alain 1911-1940 

Litanies JA 119 (1937) 

Maurice Duruflé 1902-1984 

Prelude et Fugue sur le nom d’Alain op. 7 (1942) 

Sunday August 11th at 5 pm

Johann Sebastian Bach 1685-1750 

Preludium and Fuga in C Major BWV 545 

Eli Tausen á Lava 1997- 

Danse Grotesque (2018) 

Johann Sebastian Bach 1685-1750 

Concerto in A minor BWV 593 Allegro 

Adagio Allegro 

Charles-Marie Widor 1844-1937 

From Symphony No. 5 in F minor op. 42 no. 1 (1879) 

Andante cantabile 

Andantino quasi allegretto

Louis Vierne 1870-1937 

Sur le Rhin (1926-1927)
From “24 Pièces de fantaisies”: Suite no. 3 op. 54 no. 5 

Jehan Alain 1911-1940 

Litanies JA 119 (1937) 

Maurice Duruflé 1902-1984 

Prelude et Fugue sur le nom d’Alain op. 7 (1942)