Biography
Ádám Tabajdi is an exceptional talent among a promising new generation of Hungarian organists. He has gained extensive international experience as the organist intern of the Notre Dame de Paris and as the resident organist of the Sapporo Concert Hall Kitara in Japan. In 2023 he won the Third Prize of the Longwood Gardens International Organ Competition and in 2021 the First Prize and the Audience Prize of the 13th Toulouse International Organ Competition. Ádám’s musical expression is defined by a balance of analytic approach, technical expertise, and knowledge of the instrument. In his programs, he seeks to cast new light on the deeper connections within the works. Besides the largest cathedrals in Hungary and the Müpa Budapest, the audience may have heard him play at the Royal Chapel of Versailles, Paris’s Notre-Dame Cathedral, at the Kallio Church of Helsinki, the Tallinn Dom and in the major concert halls of Japan. He studied at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, and at the Paris Conservatory; he is currently a doctoral student at the Liszt Academy. His first recording of arrangements of symphonic works, among them his own arrangement of Bartók’s Dance Suite, was published in 2020. For his outstanding professional performance, he was awarded the Junior Prima Prize.
The Orchestral Organ
On his recording by the title ‘The Orchestral Organ’, Ádám Tabajdi shows the orchestra-like sound of the organ in a large overview of the history of music. The programme, which features original works inspired by the orchestra, arrangements, and transcriptions, attempts to illuminate the possibilities of this multi-faceted instrument from many aspects. The chronological order of the works from Bach to Bartók follows tangibly the process of change over the course of the history of music – the common denominator of the pieces is the orchestral sound ideal of the organ.
The CD was recorded in April 2020 on the Kern-organ of the Sapporo Concert Hall ‘Kitara’.
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