Saturday 14 March, 12:00
(Doors open at 11:30)
Oslo Cathedral
Adult: 300 NOK
Senior/student: 200 NOK
Child: 100 NOK
Duration: approx. 1 hour
ORGAN CONCERT WITH MARCUS ANDRÉ BERG
WORKS BY LANQUETUIT, BACH, PARKER, GOEDICKE, AND HAKIM
Organ music from different corners of the world
Chief Organist at Oslo Cathedral, Marcus André Berg, presents an exciting program spanning a large geographic area. Berg will perform French Marcel Lanquetuit’s virtuoso Toccata in D major and Bach’s iconic Fugue in D minor, BWV 565b. American Horatio Parker’s Andante from “Sonata in E-Flat Major” showcases American late romanticism at its most beautiful, before we get to hear Russian Alexander Goedicke’s Prelude and Fugue in E-Flat Major. Berg himself presents an improvisation that explores the instrument in the Cathedral in different ways than the other compositions do. The concert concludes with Lebanese Naji Hakim’s Theotokos; a work filled with rhythmic energy.
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Marcel Lanquetuit (1894–1985)
Toccata in D MajorJohann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
Fugue in D minor, BWV 565bHoratio Parker (1863–1919)
Andante, from “Sonata in E-Flat Major”, Op. 65Alexander Goedicke (1877–1957)
Prelude and Fugue in E-Flat Major, Op. 32 No. 2Marcus André Berg (b. 1988)
ImprovisationNaji Hakim (b. 1955)
Theotokos -
Marcus André Berg has his education in Church Music from the Norwegian Academy of Music, and completed his Master’s degree in Organ Performance in 2013. He was appointed the organist in Oslo Cathedral already in 2015, and has been the chief organist since 2025. Berg is passionate about showing the organ’s wide range, and has collaborated with a number of choirs, soloists, and musicians, both in traditional and experimental musical forms. He regularly holds organ concerts in the Cathedral, with an expansive repertoire which also includes improvisation. From 2025, Berg is the artistic director of Oslo Organ Festival.
Photo: Oslo Cathedral: Hans A. Rosbach, Marcus André Berg: Andora Hylland
