Wolfgang Rübsam recently completed two international concert tours. In December, he performed in St. Rita Catholic Church, Turin, Italy, Luxembourg Philharmonic Hall, and Berlin Philharmonic Hall. A ten-day tour of Japan followed in January. Programs of works by Johann Sebastian Bach were performed from memory on January 11 at the Musashino Civic Cultural Center (1984 Marcussen), Tokyo, January 14 at Seitoku University (1980 Flentrop), Tokyo, and January 16 at Izumi Concert Hall (1990 Koenig), Osaka. A masterclass on the interpretation of works by Bach and Max Reger was given at the Tokyo University of the Arts on January 12, with 20 organ students attending. The Japan tour invitation was given by Tadashi Isoyama, artistic director of Osaka’s Bach complete organ works series at Izumi Concert Hall, with set program selections made by musicologist Christoph Wolff of the Bach Archive, Leipzig, Germany.
