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The International Hungarian organist László Attila Almásy makes his first visit to Scotland to perform on the Aubertin Organ at King's College Chapel
Hungarian organist László Attila Almásy was born in Budapest in 1962. In 1980, as a pupil of Edit Hambalkó at the Béla Bartók Music School in Budapest, he won first prize at the Hungarian National Music Schools Piano Competition. Later, at the Franz Liszt Music Academy in Budapest he studied piano with István Lantos and Edit Hambalkó, graduating in 1986, and organ with Gábor Lehotka, qualifying the following year. He won second prize in the 1988 Budapest International Liszt Organ Competition, and was a finalist in the Bruckner International Organ Competition in Linz, Austria in 1990. His career as an organ recitalist has taken him to all four corners of the globe and he has performed to acclaim in no fewer than thirty countries.
Programme to include: Dietrich Buxtehude: Vater unser im HimmelreichJan Pieterszoon Sweelinck: Unter der Linden grüneJohann Sebastian Bach: Prelude and Fugue in E flat major...and other works by Liszt, Kodaly, Hidas and improvisation.
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- King's College Chapel
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Admission free - no reservations required.