Frederik Magle is an international concert organist who has given recitals in churches and concert halls across Europe. His programmes combine classical repertoire, improvisation, and his own compositions.
Widely recognised as an organ virtuoso, concert organist and composer Frederik Magle has given hundreds of organ recitals in Denmark and abroad. Among the venues are:
As a soloist in concertos with orchestra, Frederik Magle has performed with The London Philharmonic Orchestra, The Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Odense Symphony Orchestra, Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, Riga Philharmonic Orchestra, Aalborg Symphony Orchestra, South Jutland Symphony Orchestra, Zürcher Kammerorchester and many other orchestras and ensembles. He has also performed with many outstanding soloists, amongst them the violinist Nikolaj Znaider.
Frederik Magle has been invited to play at royal occasions and concerts several times by the Danish Royal Family.
He is the only organist ever to reach the international finals of the Eurovision Young Musicians competition. He did so in 1994 (at the age of 16), performing Francis Poulenc's Organ Concerto to an audience of more than 100 million television-viewers worldwide.
Frederik Magle is also involved in the construction of new organs and has created the stop-list and tonal design for a new pipe organ in Jørlunde church, Denmark, a new 3-manual pipe organ in Trekroner church, Denmark, as well as several rebuilding projects.
Frederik Magle holds a master's degree in organ performance (cand.musicae) from the Danish National Academy of Music.
You can hear examples of Frederik Magle's organ playing on his YouTube channel.
»...organ virtuoso«
»...fairytale world of sounds (...) that evoke images of towering pipes in Gothic cathedrals«
»...Magle's music-making is highly creative, sometimes visionary.«
»...The disc ends with a marvellous Widor-like toccata, 'Ascending', followed by the almost extra-terrestrial 'End of the Circle'. It is this kind of intelligent variation which characterises the whole programme - dramatic window-rattlers alternating with pieces that are serenely uplifting or contemplative and others again that are mischievously eccentric or playful...«
»...this is a double CD that no fan of original organ music should be without.«
»...virtuosic and riveting«
- Prof. Christian Præstholm, Royal Conservatory (Writing in the Danish magazine "Orgelforum")
»...He is a composer/player of great depth - his instrument is the organ which he dominates with the control of an ubermeister.«
- Abi Rhodes' Zigzag Wanderings (UK)
»...known here for many years as an organist, virtuoso, and composer«
- Udfordringen (Danish magazine)
»...the results are something any aficionado of organ music will find delightful. His improvisations are varied, inventive and sonically powerful«
»...organ genius«
- Bornholms Tidende (Denmark)
While Magle's own compositions and improvisations often form a central part of his concerts, his repertoire ranges widely from Dietrich Buxtehude to contemporary composers. Here is an excerpt of the repertoire:
Besides »classical« organ works, Frederik Magle is also involved both as organist and composer in many experimental projects using the pipe organ in new and alternative ways. Amongst them a cooperation with the renowned jazz saxophonist John Tchicai mixing jazz music with contemporary classical music in a genre also known as »crossover music« (or »fusion«).
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