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Event date

31 / 07 / 2025 - Thursday 20:00

Event venue

Church of St. Peter and Paul, Kaplice

Event type

Organ Concerts

Organ Soirée: Katharina Zauner

Austria's rising star organist Katharina Zauner will play the royal instrument in Kaplice.

The 34th organ concert series will conclude with an evening performance in Kaplice. The local Church of Sts. Peter and Paul will make its premiere as a festival concert stage. The town on the Czech-Austrian border is rightly proud of its organ school tradition. The Kaplice instrument will be taken up by 24-year-old organist Katharina Zauner. Although very young, she has had many successes. She gained her first musical experience at the age of 8, took her first organ lessons two years later, then studied at the Academy for Gifted Students at the Anton Bruckner Private College, as well as at the Linz Music College and is also a recipient of the Dr. Josef Ratzenböck Scholarship. Katharina Zauner is currently studying organ with Johannes Ebenbauer at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. She has also held masterclasses with Bin Bryndorf, Hannfried Lucke, Silva Manfrè and Matthias Maierhofer.   The concert will be part of the unique Kaplice Music Day, during which it will be possible to attend three concerts:

Artists

Katharina Zauner  – organ

Program

Anton Bruckner: Prelude and fugue c minor
Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy: Organ sonata No. 6 d minor op. 65 No. 6
Johann Sebastian Bach: Prelude and fugue D major

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Katharina Zauner

Katharina Zauner was born in Austria in 2000 and gained her first musical experience at the age of eight. At the age of ten she started playing the organ at the music school. After being accepted to the Academy for Gifted Students at the Anton Bruckner Private College in Linz in 2015, she transferred to the Linz Music School and changed teachers for organ to Bernhard Prammer (Music School Gallneukirchen). In 2017 Katharina Zauner was awarded the Dr. Josef Ratzenböck Scholarship. She has participated several times in the prima la musica music competition for young people at the regional and national level. Since 2020, Katharina has been studying Organ Performance and Organ Music Education at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. She also gained artistic inspiration from different masterclasses. In 2024 she won the 3rd price and a special price at the Kropfreiter Organ Competition in St. Florian.

Katharina Zauner
foto: Manuel Peer

Church of St. Peter and Paul, Kaplice

The Church of St. Peter and Paul in Kaplice is a Gothic two-nave church from the 13th century. It has been protected as a cultural monument since 1958. It stands east of the square on the area of the former cemetery. The church grounds and the cemetery are surrounded by a wall, with an entrance gate with statues […]

Organ Soirée: Katharina Zauner

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