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National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts (Weiwuying), Klais-Orgel

Klais organ

In 2018, the currently largest organ in Asia with 127 stops was inaugurated. The instrument comes from the renowned German organ-building company, Klais from Bonn and, strictly speaking, consists of two instruments, which can, however, also be played together: A large Symphonic organ and a much smaller Baroque-inspired organ. Visually, both instruments are sisters, as the facade design was inspired by the bamboo pipes typical of the region.

Tsuji organ

The concert organ of Salamanca Hall, built in 1994 by the Japanese company, Tsuji, combines elements of Spanish Renaissance organs with those of North German Baroque instruments. The horizontal Spanish trumpets, such as Clarin de Bajos 8′ or Bajoncillo 8′, are characteristic of the Iberian Peninsula with their harsh penetrating sound.

Tsuji organ, Salamanca Hall

Rieger organ for the Lotte Concert Hall, Seoul

Rieger organ

For the Lotte Cooncert Hall in Seoul, the Austrian company Rieger from Schwarzach delivered a modern concert organ with 68 stops in 2016. The mechanical console is built directly into the organ’s lower case and has four manuals to control the divisions I Great, II Choir (enclosed), III Swell , IV Solo and Pedal. As a universal organ in the best sense of the word, the organ’s disposition is designed to represent organ music of all epochs and therefore offers a rich palette of characteristic timbres. Particularly noteworthy is the fact that the entire disassembled Cornett in the swell, consisting of the stops Flûte harmonique 8′, Flûte octaviante 4′, Nazard harmonique 2 2/3′, Octavin 2′, Tierce harmonique 1 3/5′, is overblown and therefore has a particularly powerful sound.

Prof. Hsin-Hung Liu

Prof. Hsin-Hung Liu, educated and graduated in the USA (University of Washington and Cleveland Institute of Music) brings his expertise as an organ expert in various pioneering organ building projects in Taiwan. Currently, Dr. Liu is organ professor and head of the Church Music Department at Tainan Theological College and Seminary, adjunct professor at the National Taipei University of Arts, and is a board member of the Taiwanese Division of the American Guild of Organists (AGO). As such, he is a central figure in the Taiwanese organ scene, which strives for high musical standards and aims to advance the understanding of organ music.

Kensuke Ohira

Kensuke Ohira is an outstanding representative of the younger generation of generation of Japanese musicians. He began his training at the Tokyo University of Arts and continued it as a DAAD scholarship holder in Würzburg and and Munich. He completed his concert organ studies with the master class of Christoph Bossert and was organist at the Stiftskirche in Stuttgart until 2020. The starting shot of his international career in 2016 was winning 1st prize at the organ competition of the of the International Organ Week Nuremberg (ION) and his first solo CD, which he recorded in cooperation with the BR. Since 2021, Kensuke Ohira has been first organist of the Hijirigaoka Church in Tokyo and principal organist of the Meiji Gakuin University in Yokohama. Since 2022, he has also led the Muromachi Ensemble as successor to Laurent Teycheney.

Kensuke Ohira (c) Julian Rettig

Dong-Ill Shin

Dong-ill Shin from South Korea, discovered his love of the organ through the music of J.S. Bach. He was first noticed as a 10-year-old soloist in a Mozart piano concerto, but at 14 he began to conquer the organ and studied first in Seoul, then in Lyon and Paris. He has won many international organ competitions, for example, in Chartres and St Albans, and has now performed in renowned festivals on every continent. After 10 years in the USA, he returned to his homeland in 2011 and is now organ professor at Yonsei University, Seoul.

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Dong-Ill Shin

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