Phillipine Department of Foreign Affairs press release

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Concert in Germany Features Phl-Made Pipe Organ

28 June 2012 - A Philippine-made pipe organ added melody to a beautiful classic music concert, dubbed "Konzert an der Diego-Cera Orgel", held last June 10 at the Konservatorium Goerg Friedrich Handel in Halle an der Saale, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.

The concert featured a combination of organ and vocal music performed by three young aspiring artists from Halle, led by pianist and composer Ekaterina Leontjewa, and her two students, 13-year old pianist Christoph Baumgarten and soprano singer Jaroslawa Nikulina.

Ms. Leontjewa and master Baumgarten rendered classical pieces using a pipe organ produced by Diego Cera Organbuilders, Inc., a Philippine company respected for maintaining the tradition of pipe organ making that was started by Fr. Diego Cera. Fr. Cera was the builder of the world-renowned bamboo organ of Las Piñas.

The listeners enjoyed hearing the works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy and the contemporary Russian composers played with the distinctive sound of the bamboo organ.

At the G.F.Handel Konservatorium in Lessingstr. 13, where Ms. Leontjiewa regularly plays, visitors received a pleasant surprise when they were told that the music they heard came from a bamboo organ proudly made in the Philippines.

The event, which was organized by Internationaler Kulturverein Sachsen Anhalt, e.V.  Chairman Herbert Hartung, was attended by officials from the Philippine Embassy in Berlin.

In June each year, Halle hosts one of the biggest annual music festivals dedicated to George Frideric Handel, who was born in Halle in 1685.
The town regularly organizes free organ concerts, playing mostly the music of Handel and his contemporaries.

And fromhttp://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/263472/pinoyabroad/news/pinoy-made-pipe-organ-featured-in-germany-concert

A pipe organ made by Filipinos was recently featured in a classic music concert at the Konservatorium Goerg Friedrich Handel in Halle an der Saale, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.

In a news release, the Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said a pipe organ produced by Diego Cera Organbuilders, Inc., a Philippine company was featured during the "Konzert an der Diego-Cera Orgel."

The concert featured a combination of organ and vocal music performed by three young aspiring artists from Halle: pianist and composer Ekaterina Leontjewa, and her two students — pianist Christoph Baumgarten, 13; and soprano singer Jaroslawa Nikulina.

"Leontjewa and Baumgarten rendered classical pieces using a pipe organ produced by Diego Cera Organbuilders, Inc., a Philippine company respected for maintaining the tradition of pipe organ making that was started by Fr. Diego Cera," the DFA said.

Cera was the builder of the world-renowned bamboo organ of Las Piñas.

The DFA said the concert featured the works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy and contemporary Russian composers.

In June each year, Halle hosts one of the biggest annual music festivals dedicated to George Frideric Handel, who was born in Halle in 1685.

The town regularly organizes free organ concerts, playing mostly the music of Handel and his contemporaries. - VVP, GMA News

Now if the British Foreign Office could make an announcement like that the next time a British-made pipe organ is used in concert outside the U.K. :o :o :o :o :o

Eric
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