To kick off the "organ marathon", three organists - Holger Boenstedt, Lucas Bastian and Vittorio Vanini - will each play works by Bach for half an hour.
Holger Boenstedt, former long-time cantor of St. Mark's Church and successor to Karl Richter, will play the Toccata in D minor and the Toccata, Adagio and Fugue in C major.
He will be followed by two up-and-coming students from the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Munich, Lucas Bastian and Vittorio Vanini. They are both students of Professor Bernhard Haas. Lucas Bastian studied church music in Stuttgart and has been cantor at St. Raphael in Karlsruhe since June 2023. He will play Prelude and Fugue in E minor and a trio on "Herr Jesu Christ, dich zu uns wend" from the "Leipziger Chorälen". Vittorio Vanini studied in Como, Basel and Munich and has been a regional cantor in Hanau since 2025. In addition to chorale arrangements, he plays Reger's version of the Prelude and Fugue in C sharp minor from the "Well-Tempered Clavier" and the final movement from Vierne's 1st Symphony.