LIUDMILA MATSYURA
Concert Organist
Russian Concert Organist graduated from the M.I.Glinka Conservatory
(Nizhniy Novgorod - Russia) at which she has obtained her diplomas as artist - concert organist and pianist in the class of well-known professor and renowned concert organist G.I.Kozlova.
From 1986 to 2003 she worked as Organist Soloist and pianist in the
Irkutsk Philharmonic Society (Russia), and has carried out a great creative work
as a soloist, organist, having performed several cycles of organ concerts, as a
member of the trio "Rondo" and duet "Concertino" and also has been participating
in concerts with a singers, instruments and choirs.
LIUDMILA MATSYURA has improved her performing skills at master classes of
the well-known artists: Leo Kremer, Piet Kee, Ewald Kooiman, Harald Vogel and
Lionnel Rogg (Bach and German Baroque music) Arturo Sacchetti and Luigi
Ferdinando Tagliavini (Early Italian music), Guy Bovet and Montserrat Torrent
(Old Spanish music), Alain Marie Claire and Bernard Lagacé (classical French
music), Jean Guillou (romantic and contemporary music), Margaret Philips and B.
Winsemius (english early music and Sweelinck music). He has repeatedly
participated in the activities of the great International Organ Academies in
Innsbruck, Zurich, Haarlem, Florence and Salamanca.
The artist has a large repertoire list that includes organ works from the
fifteenth century to contemporary music. Among her favourite composers are:
J.S. Bach, D.Buxtehude, C. Franck, O. Messiaen, J. Langlais, L. Vierne , Ch.M.
Widor and others. She interprets all organ works of J.S.Bach, D.Buxtehude and
F.Mendelssohn.
LIUDMILA MATSYURA is having actually a big activity as concert organist in Europe and Russia, taking part at the numerous International Organ Festivals in Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Italy, Spain, Norway, Scotland and France. Her recitals have been heard in known cathedrals of Europe: Notre-Dame de Paris, Dom zu Salzburg (Austria), St.Bonifaz Basilica in Munich, St. Gile's Cathedral in Edinburgh (Scotland), Domkirke Stavanger (Norway), Cathedrals of Palma de Mallorca, Salamanca and Alcalá de Henares(Madrid) and in different churches in the communities of Catalonia, Castilla y Leon and Madrid.
In Spain during the recent years the organist has been involved, among
others, in the: International Organ Week in Madrid (2004), IV International
Organ Festival of Palma de Mallorca (2004), XXX International Week of historical
organs in Mallorca (2006), V International Series of Organ Music-"The organ and
its instruments” of Valladolid, International Festival in Ibiza, International
Organ Festival in Toledo etc.
Organist has participated in many radio and TV programmes and has made
several recordings on CD, has realized First Series of Organ concerts in the
Church of the Sacred Hearts in Madrid.
LIUDMILA MATSYURA is an international concert organist, organist titular of the Cathedral-Magistral in Alcala de Henares (Madrid), is the initiator, organizer and Artistic Director of the International Organ Festival "City of Alcala". She exercises as a choirmaster in the company SOCIEDAD LÍRICA COMPLUTENSE with which she collaborates as an organist, cembalo and pianist. Organist has been a jury´s member of various competitions including the 70th national contest for Young Performers Jeunesses Musicals of Spain.
