Lukas Hasler Organ Concert – Basking Ridge Presbyterian Church
Organ Works by Bach, Mozart, Bruckner, and Price
Friday, September 20 @ 7:30 pm
The Basking Ridge Presbyterian Church welcomes you to special organ concert featuring rising international soloist and recording artist Lukas Hasler performing works by Bach, Mozart, Bruckner, and Price. This free concert will be performed on Friday September 20 at 7:30 pm.
Lukas Hasler (born 1996) currently lives and works as a doctoral student at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles where he studies with Cherry Rhodes. He graduated with distinction in 2022 from his organ studies under Ulrich Walther at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz, Austria. In 2020 he spent a year abroad at the Académie Supérieure de Musique de Strasbourg in France under the tutelage of Johann Vexo. Further stays abroad also took him to New York City.
His thriving international concert career has already taken him to Europe, Asia, and Australia as well as to some of the largest cathedrals in the United States. In addition to his participation in the opening ceremony of the Salzburg Festival, he has also performed at the Tyrolean Festival Erl, organ summer at the Saint Florian Bruckner Organ, at the Methuen Memorial Music Hall in Boston, at the International Organ Festival in Düsseldorf (IDO) as well as at the Russian music festival of the Volgograd Philharmonic.
In 2022, he was the first classical musician to perform in Ukraine after the start of the war and played two benefit concerts in the Lviv Concert Hall for the victims of the war.
Lukas won the “Prima la Musica” music competition for organ twice and in 2019 the “Grand Prix” at the International Organ Competition in Malta. In 2014 he also won the “Bärenreiter-Special” prize for his interpretation of a work by J.S. Bach. A year later, “Jugend komponiert”, a competition for young composers, named Lukas as a finalist for his piano and violin suites. The young organist and composer has attended master classes with Jean Guillou, Ton Koopman, Ludger Lohmann and Skip Sempé. Lukas is gaining recognition for his colorful and passionate musicality.
“A Portrait”, released in the summer of 2019, is the title of his first solo CD with organ music by Bach, Liszt, Dupré and his own improvisations. In the following year he was named “rising star” by the Austrian newspaper Kleine Zeitung. With more than 80,000 followers on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube, he is one of the world’s most successful organists on social media.
Basking Ridge Presbyterian Church is located at 1 East Oak Street in Basking Ridge, NJ. A free will offering will be taken to offset our costs and support our special music events throughout the year. For more info, visit www.brpc.org.