As part of its 30th anniversary season, American Public Media’s Pipedreams will devote an entire two-hour program to prize winners from the recent Canadian International Organ Competition (CIOC) held in Montreal last October.
The program, to be distributed to APM stations on February 13, likely will be broadcast during the following six-day period. The program also will be available for an indefinite period in the online archive, which is available at www.pipedreams.org.
Since its inaugural season in 2008, the CIOC, which takes place every three years, has earned a reputation as North America’s most prestigious and generous contest for young organists, with more than $72,000 in cash prizes and an additional $60,000 in recital contracts and other prizes.
From a field of 60 candidates representing seventeen countries, twelve men and four women, representing eleven countries and with an average age of 28, were selected to compete in Montreal in 2011. After three rounds of performances, seven were chosen to receive prize awards.
The Pipedreams broadcast will represent all seven of the award-winning soloists: Christian Lane, 1st prize; Jens Korndörfer, 2nd prize and Liszt prize; Jean-Willy Kunz, 3rd prize (shared) and Richard-Bradshaw audience prize; Balthasar Baumgartner, 3rd prize (shared); Yulia Yufereva, Bach prize; Jared Osterman, Royal Canadian College of Organists prize; and Andreas Jud, Alain prize.
These performances were recorded October 5–14, 2011 on the 1961 Beckerath organ at Immaculate Conception Church, the 1915–1996 Casavant organ at the Eglise Saint-Jean-Baptiste, and the 1891–1991 Casavant at the historic Basilique Notre-Dame.
