FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS: Johann Gottfried Walther – Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott (Organ & Trumpet)

A Mighty Fortress is Our God by Johann Gottfried Walther
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The battle hymn of the Protestant Reformation, recorded during Reformation Sunday worship service at Lake of the Isles Lutheran Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Laura Saylor, trumpet
Dr. Kris Rizzotto, organ

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LAURA SAYLOR is a Doctoral Candidate in Brass Performance and Pedagogy at the University of Iowa where she served as principal trumpet of the UI Symphony Orchestra and was a member of the faculty Iowa Brass Quintet. She holds a master’s degree in Trumpet Performance from Boston University, a bachelor’s degree in Music Education from Messiah College (Grantham, PA), and studied chamber music at the University of New Mexico. Primary teachers include Amy Schendel, William Stowman, and trumpet virtuoso Terry Everson.

As an educator, Laura works with students and adult trumpeters and has presented clinics in public schools and universities throughout the Midwest. She is currently accepting private lesson students! Past performing credits include the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra, the Santa Fe Symphony, Dennis DeYoung and the Music of Styx, and many more. She is a founding member of the Tallgrass Brass Band, and currently performs with numerous commercial artists and classical music projects around the Twin Cities.

Latvian Brazilian Dr. KRIS RIZZOTTO (they/them) has played concerts in Argentina, Brazil, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, and in 20 American states. Highlights include Rīga Dom Cathedral and Liepāja’s Holy Trinity Cathedral (largest mechanical organ in the world) in Latvia; Pelplin Cathedral International Organ Festival in Poland; Piccolo Spoleto Festival in Charleston; Christopher Summer Festival in Vilnius, Lithuania; Basilica of the Blessed Sacrament in Buenos Aires; Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception in Denver; and Anchorage Lutheran Church in Alaska.

Kris was named a member of The Diapason’s 20 Under 30 Class of 2017, which recognizes young leaders in the fields of organ, harpsichord, carillon, and church music. Dr. Rizzotto is the Director of Music at Lake of the Isles Lutheran Church in Minneapolis. They are also a self-published composer for organ, choir, and piano, with emphasis in sacred repertoire for religious services. Several original hymn introductions and reharmonizations are available for free download at bit.ly/31jERan. They were previously the organist at the Benedictine Abbey of Rio de Janeiro, built in 1590 and owner of one of the oldest organs in South America.

Kris holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Organ Performance from the American Organ Institute at the University of Oklahoma, a Master of Music in Sacred Music and Organ Performance from East Carolina University, and a Bachelor’s degree in Piano Performance from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Magna cum Laude). Kris’ doctoral dissertation was about the importance of music in the formation of the national identity of the Latvian people, focusing on organ compositions by Aivars Kalējs which represent the values and spirit of the Latvian heritage.

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PER ASPERA AD ASTRA: LATVIAN NATIONAL IDENTITY REFLECTED IN SELECTED ORGAN WORKS BY AIVARS KALĒJS

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Johann Gottfried Walther (18 September 1684 – 23 March 1748) was a German music theorist, organist, composer, and lexicographer of the Baroque era.

Walther was born at Erfurt. Not only was his life almost exactly contemporaneous to that of Johann Sebastian Bach, he was the famous composer’s cousin.

Walther was most well known as the compiler of the Musicalisches Lexicon (Leipzig, 1732). Not only was it the first dictionary of musical terms written in the German language, it was the first to contain both terms and biographical details about composers and performers up to the early 18th century. Walther as a city organist of Weimar wrote exactly 132 organ preludes based on Lutheran chorale melodies.

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